Love Potion

A love potion goes terribly wrong turning you into a monster - can you find the ingredients to turn yourself handsome enough and marry the princess?

This is an action adventure game based on the game jam theme:

"You Are What You Eat".  

Play as love struck Jim whose only goal is to woo the princess Cindy, but takes a wrong turn on the way to love and ends up battling a host of monsters to make himself handsome enough to marry his true love.

Controls:

• Mouse Steers
• Hold right mouse button down to move
• Hold left mouse button down to attack
• Escape to quit, or skip the first cut scene (Added post game jam)

Cheats:

• Ctrl+H will restore you to full life
• Ctrl+Q will give the needed number of items you are collecting

Known Issues:

• [FIXED] When Jim is turned into a goblin the animations aren't playing (they work in the unity player - but not in the compiled game - we will fix it)
• [FIXED] Same problem when Jim is turned back into Jim on the last level.  
• [FIXED] Moving seems to feel sticky in the compiled game, but works in the unity player.  
• [FIXED] Enemy AI gave up chasing you too soon
• [FIXED] Ents are too big
• [FIXED] Its hard to tell which enemy you are attacking - add health bars

After your quest is completed you can run all the way back, or the 'T' key will teleport you home.

What we did and didn't do:

• All the coding was done by us
• The idea for the story was ours
• My 14 year old son Ryan learned how to generate terrains using GAIA (a unity store asset)
• Ryan also setup the post processing effects on the camera
• Ryan leaned to create animation controllers
• Nathan and Ryan worked together to get characters hooked up to the animation controllers and all the components I wrote (like Player, EnemyAI, Health etc.)
• Enemies are controlled via the Navigation mesh on the terrain.
• Nathan also did a lot of 3D modelling, and example of that is the tower the Harpies are on at the end of the game.  
• He did other models, but they didn't make it in the game due to time constraints

What we learned:

• Gaia can speed up terrain generation and make really good looking terrains in a short time.
• In our game we are switching characters a lot and have a lot of different enemy npc's.  Because of that we made the decision to wire up our animation controllers all the same way - that way a single script can be used to control all the enemies, and a single player control can be used on all the 3d models used by the player.
• Fungus is a nice tool that helped create the cut scenes and control the camera tweaning and dialog.
• Having an interesting story makes you game more fun.
• Ryan did the voice overs and all the sounds that the creatures make when they attack and die, the sounds really added a lot of fun to the game.

This game jam was fun to make and we where able to create a game that has 5 levels, 5 different enemies, and lets you control 5 different player controllers as Jim gets morphed by the potion.

What could be better:

- The enemy AI is glitchy and could be better.  They can chase, patrol, and attack.  We didn't implement ranged enemies.

- The player controller is missing strafing - mainly because we didn't have a strafe animation, also it would be nice to be able to look around with the mouse, but given the time constraints we kept it simple.