Shadows Casted
Tech demo for tile-based shadow casting
Unfinished. In its current state, it's a single-level tech demo for tile-based shadow casting. But it has music, so there's that.
Control the player with the arrow keys. Press escape or q to quit.
Tools used:
- Aseprite (for creating sprited and tiles)
- Tiled (for creating levels (well, one) based on the tiles)
- BoscaCeoil (for creating the background music)
Frameworks / Libraries used:
- Love2D
- Bump (for collision detection)
- Push (for virtual screen size management)
- Simple Tiled Implementation (for loading Tiled maps in Love2D)
- Hump (for classes in Lua)
Comments (10)
Man, that gave me that feeling you have when you finally get a system in your game working and you just run around your level staring at it, and I didn't even make the system! Haha. This looks like a great system for you to implement in a bigger game, so congrats on getting that done this weekend! I was thinking while moving around, I'd love this type of vision system in a TD shooter of some kind.
Congrats on the shadow casting system, it works great! I hope you'll get to use it in a future game/jam entry :)
Here's the gameplay I imagine around this:
- A bad guy is trying to catch you.
- If he's in the shadows, you can't see each other. The bad guy then roams randomly on the map.
- As soon as he gets out of shadows he runs towards you, his speed increasing progressively & permanently. He stops running as soon as he's back in the shadows (only difference, his running speed is now higher than before)
- The goal is to survive as long as possible and get a high score.
Very cool tech demo! It seems to be working flawlessly!
Due to the "priority" of the movement keys, causing simultaneous presses to cancel each other out in different ways, movement felt a bit uneven. Perhaps the last movement key pressed should always get precedence, so that you can always change direction in a hurry. Preferably, perhaps diagonal movement should also be possible.
A gameplay idea that could be an inversion of the current demo, could be this:
- You play a thief who is quite at home in the dark.
- You have to retrieve an object, and then leave again.
- Hindering your progress are one or more guards - and the guards are the one producing the light.
- So, from the movement of the light cones, you have to deduce their route and location, and avoid being seen/hit by the light, while you perform your mission.
Light and shadows roam,
changing with me as I move.
Filled with potential!
@Somnium You're totally right about the controls. Even if I'd like to keep the non-diagonal controls, the most-recently-pressed-key-getting-precedence makes a ton of sense. And nice gameplay ideas, this tech would indeed be nicely suited to some form of stealth game à la Thief, Dishonored, etc.
@silviacavadas Thanks!
That effect is so damn hypnotizing D: