AlphaRun
Infinite runner game where the player is stranded in an alien swamp and must build up enough speed, while dodging swamp trees, to escape.
Infinite runner game where the player is stranded in an alien swamp and must build up enough speed, while dodging swamp trees, to escape.
Design
The main game loop operates by simply scrolling textures and positions across a plane under the player.
The same applies to the obstacles; by moving them both along the opposite move vector of the players input, this effect is pulled off.
The fog effect takes a noise texture as input and applies a displacement and transparency effect based on the greyscale value of the texture. Finally, a scroll input is sent to the shader at runtime to pull off the effect off gently rolling fog.
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