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ChickenRun's itch.io pageDemo video link (Youtube or Vimeo)
https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/781520477
Which NEW Lightship template(s) did you use?
Object Placement Without Planes [coin/spider spawn], Character Controller [chicken]
How is your project related to the theme? (Optional)
Help the chicken discover something new [gems,spiders,boosts,your surroundings]
How have you innovated on this product? (Optional)
using place without planes with a custom grid dot projector to get new spawn points, using time and distance for spawing stuff encouraging player to walk further and explore. also uses depth occlusion for realism [chicken only, gems are different layer]
How does it speak to Niantic's mission? (Optional)
it encourages player to play outdoors [encourage excercise] and to explore further to get higher scores
How complete is your project? (Optional)
80% +playable
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Judges' Feedback
Nolen Tabner, Software Engineer:
Love the execution with this template but would have really enjoyed seeing more variety in the gameplay. Perhaps location-specific (VPS) level design/enemies or use of semantic segmentation to generate unique items/enemies. Felt like a solid single player experience but not much in the way of pushing players to go outside or play together.
PatCat, Lightship Leader:
Uses new templates quite well and overall looks to play quite nicely! Quite a nice outcome for a mini-jam entry. It felt like this could be completed into a game people would actually buy from the App Store, especially if it grew to have dynamically generated levels, high scores... etc. Not a lot of actual "go out and play" mechanics though, you could play this from your living room just as nicely. Would be cool to include VPS locations or a way of dynamically changing the scene depending on what's nearby to encourage more exploration of the world.