Tirocinio

Thesis project made by me at the University of Cagliari. Made in Unity

uses code from MinionsArt for the grass shader and catlikecoding for the splines

Introduction

• It’s a fast paced 3D game where you ride on a electric scooter throwing seed bombs to make the industrial city become livelier and solarpunk. Inspired by the 3D Sonic games from the Dreamcast era ( and other Sega games such as Jet Set Radio and Crazy Taxi).

Explanation:

• seed bombs are balls of clay, compost, seeds and water that you can throw or bury in the soil to make plants grow.

Inspirations

• Sonic Adventure 2 Battle: City Escape
• Jet Set Radio HD [PC] Gameplay
• Freejack (2015) My Races (Brazil Server)
• Arcade Longplay [242] Crazy Taxi
• Sonic Riders

Gameplay

Focus of the internship will be on the procedural generation aspect

• Procedurally generated world, in hex tiles. The generation algorithm keeps the connections between tiles consistent
• Saving old generated chunks so you can see the ones you sprayed in the end?

Gameplay verbs

• Throw seed bombs
• Collect batteries to recharge scooter
• Grinding on rails
• Tricks makes you get fuel
• Braking
• Jumping
• Boost for scooter, consumes more energy
• Skidding like in kart games (Sonic Riders)
• Going to next objective to seed bomb, with an indicator like in Crazy Taxi
• Recharges battery once in next objective, to make the gameplay more fast paced
• Upgrades/Customization of escooter and character

Objectives for seed bombing

How much area you cover is the final score , like in Splatoon’s competitive matches

• Uncared areas
• Dry terrain
• Polluted areas

When you seed bomb an area it shows visible changes in the environment (unrealistic, but gives instant feedback and satisfaction to the player)

Other entities in the city

• Destructable objects when you go over them
• Cars flying off like in Sonic Adventure 2’s City Escape (with a powerup, maybe?)
• Passerbies who might see and call the police
• Police who tries to follow you and catch you