GPS: Ingress

GPS: Ingress

              At the initial phase during the launch, the layout for the loading screen fits nicely with this game. Revealing a orbiting satellite, after the game is launched it will put us on a screen where you must choose a side (The Enlightened or The Resistance.). I chose to support the resistance, because of the increase opportunity in taking over other portals from the other team. Depending on the location you are playing the game at, is where there are more portals to take over. In my case I was walking around the San Jose State campus and there is a lot of portals in this area from both sides.

             The mechanics of this game is location-based, so it involves moving around in real life to reach the portals. I was walking around the San Jose State campus, deploying all my resonators to the blue portals for support. Every time I place a resonator to one of these locations, I gain experience towards my next level. There are other options that you can do when clicking on a portal, but since I was only level 2. I didn’t have access to taking control of the enemy’s portal. There are certain areas on campus where it showed a grey portal. These portals are not occupied by any sides, so whomever add their resonator to that portal will become theirs. When this happens, you gain a few items and a link to a video Is sent to you to watch based on the monument that you have just visited. I noticed that once the resonator is filled, you will be able to link them to your other blue portals creating connecting points.

              All in all, this game requires a lot of exploration to progress in the game. As you advance in the game, you unlock more options to interact with the game.

Mass Attack

Mass Attack

The game that my partner and I created is called “Mass Attack,” which is based on a moving shooter game. In this game, you will be able to navigate your character around using the keyboard controls and shoot with the mouse pointer. The enemies in this game includes flying monsters and a boss.

The initial phase of the game, the player will be placed at the beginning of the mission. The player has floors and a portal to test out the movement keys before entering the first level. Once the first level is reached, you will be set in a new map and there is a three second timer until the monsters start spawning.  The mission is to destroy 50 monsters to unleash a boss at the end of the level. For every 10 monsters that are killed, the amount of monsters increase and so does their speed. From the previous version in our alpha, we only had the first room and was only able to move around with the player. Now, we actually have enough objects and a goal to consider and a challenging game.

The controls for movement is using the “WASD,” keys. Currently, our “W” key has no action for it. The “A” key allows the player to move backward, “S” key allows you to move under and “D” key allows you to move forward. We are able to shoot by clicking the left mouse click and the direction is based on the mouse pointer direction. In future implementation, we might add more levels to the game to make it more interesting. In that case, we will be introducing a difficulty level to choose from in further implementation.

The background music that we used in the game was taken from the artist “BluntedBeatz.” Otherwise, every other sound in the game was created by voice and a tweaking software.

Below is a link to our game:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0By1OJ09Z89bsallza1cyQTg3TUk