How I’m giving the user feedback through the environment and making things move in time with the music by specifying runtime variables in JSON config files – adding ‘juiciness’!
So here’s an early gameplay video of Cipher Break. Sorry about the potato quality. You can hopefully see what’s going on though!
The tunnel changes colour to the beat and when you mistype a letter, making the whole world feedback to you. You can also see the bezier tracer fire – it’s textured and animated, but I don’t know how much of that comes through in the video. One thing that needs a big improvement is the big star explosions, they’re a placeholder – and it needs to be toned down a lot!
Cipher Break is an on-the-rails word ’em up set inside your computer. Taking visual cues from the likes of Tron and Rez. You take on the role of a hacker infiltrating a high tech computer system and attempting to break through their defences and firewalls. You fly through a constantly changing, procedurally generated environment that […]
