Contrasting Forces

Contrasting Forces is a prototype demo created for the "Ryan Laley Games Summer Jam 2023". The theme was contrast, the game was to be made in Unreal Engine, and the time frame was 72 hours.

Idea and Gameplay:

As a sphere hurdling through a tunnel, the player's objective is to make it to the end as fast as possible while trying to avoid the obstacles in front of them.

Contrasting Forces' main mechanic, and what makes it fit the theme, is the player's ability to switch between a linier force and a centrifugal force as well as switch the direction they push the player in.

What this project shows:

The biggest skills this project shows off is my coding ability and my understanding of vectors. The character moves using custom movement component which uses various normals, cross products, and dot products to push the player forward, make them spin, and more.

Known Issue(s):

• Spinning around a corner tube slows the player to a near halt (Less a coding problem and more an inherit physics problem). Personally never gotten stuck but it might happen.

The future of this project and its idea:

The future of this project specifically is generally dead. I might add an extra obstacle after the jam (if I don't have time to add it before it ends(I had time)) but besides that, this is it. HOWEVER. This project did give me an idea for a game which I believe fits the contrast idea even better and is a really interesting concept so stay tuned for that.

What could have been added if given time:

Mainly more obstacles, general improvements to to movement system, and audio (play your own music while playing it). I also wanted to make it so the obstacles rotated what the forces were changed but there were some potential gameplay issues I thought of with that so it would have required too much testing to implement.

Thank you for playing my game, I hope you enjoyed the time you had with it.