Torimaze

Had a bad dream about the quarantine so I made a game about it. 

A Tron inspired maze escape game with Unreal Engine.

Tori Maze is a maze runner game for Ludum Dare 47. The theme was 'Stuck in a Loop', run through a maze of tori gates and invisible walls and make your way to the golden city.

Development wise this was made in Unreal engine with lots of emission textures, Nvidia GPU is recommended.

Self score

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Innovation: I think the liberal use of glowey trees is very unique

Fun: Fun if you find mazes fun

Theme: Being stuck in a circular maze fits the theme 

Graphics: Inspired by Tron, emissive textures were custom blueprints but the rest  of the 3d assets were free from marketplace.

Audio:  Used python and Ableton to transcribe heartbeat sounds to hang drum beats from a kaggle dataset. https://www.kaggle.com/kinguistics/heartbeat-sounds

Humor: not particularly funny

Mood: Very moody

Overall: Spent Friday researching, Saturday prototyping, Sunday development, and Monday making music , deploying to production and marketing. 

Overall I was surprised that I was able to iterate these level design fairly quickly.  Originally I wanted to create three maze levels and import original characters but was too short on time. 

Bugs and performance issues: 

• The liberal use of emissive textures may create lots of lag for computers without a GPU 
• Video game takes 2 minutes to load with a blank screen
• UV clipping may make the player stuck 

CTRL - ALT - DELETE  to terminate game process