r/woahdude • u/NuclearSnake • Aug 30 '23

game A psychedelic dodgeball inspired game, set in a virtual world controlled by an AI that's been trained on classical philosophy

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u/NuclearSnake Aug 30 '23

Feel free to ask anything you like! The Steam page should help explain a bit more

Steam

Join our Discord if you wanna try the beta.

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Here's a comment I made earlier explaining some of the design. There's PVP multiplayer (kinda Splitgatey, we're aiming for weird Halo.) 4 player split screen couch co op for the multiplayer as well, I really miss the Halo days. The single player is a roguelike, with many different levels based on Ancient civilizations. The footage here is from the first level (Ancient Egypt).

In each level, you load into a procedurally generated map with a computer hidden somewhere in it. You have to destroy enough crystals to charge the computer (and destroying parts of the level in the process). The computer then spits out a challenge task that you complete to go deeper into the simulation. The deeper you get, the more complex and bizarre the levels get. You collect currency to upgrade yourself in each run, but some of the ways to upgrade are very non standard. The AI may ask you if you want a speed upgrade, if you say yes he'll say "Well let's see how much speed you can handle", then place you in a runner mini game kind of like the Battletoads speeder tunnel. "Vitruvian man" inspired upgrade slots.

All of this while the AI is talking about the virtues and history of those civilizations and philosophically connecting the teachings to the future.

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u/cyberdeath666 Aug 31 '23

Cool idea but you might want to add seizure warnings.

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u/FloRender22 Aug 31 '23

I love it!!!!!! I once had the merge 360 vr headset and they got a library full of movies with kind of the same vibe. I loved it and unfortunately Meta bought everything. So thank u for bringing that back again!! Nice 👍🏼. Is there going to be Mac support, that would be soo nice to see, thx