Proxima C

By: Nieco Aldoni & me

What this is

A space game we built to learn about game experience design (visuals and audio) and procedural generation.

Story: the player, an expedition robot agent, stranded on a planet called Proxima C, must survive on it while a rescue ship is coming on its way.

Further story? It's in the game. Just clone, build and run it. :)

Tools

• Adobe Illustrator CC 2020, Sketch for Mac
• GarageBand for background music
• Adobe Audition for foley sound effects
• Xcode 11.5: Swift, SpriteKit

What we've done

• Nieco: design
  • 2D game assets & tiles design
  • Foley sounds and background music
  • Game design & story
  • Theme, both visually and auditorily
• Baskoro: tech
  • Swift / SpriteKit coding
  • Procedural generation for: (128 x 128 tiles - still wondering how to generate an infinite plane)
    • Land / acid -- using Perlin noise
    • Items distribution -- using Poisson disc sampling
  • Sweep line algorithm to reduce node count of acid tiles' physics bodies
    • Making one SKPhysicsBody per tile just makes the node count sickly huge - and blasts the memory.
  • Refactoring, etc.