PHASE-ONE

PHASE ONE

2018

Phase one is a single player adventure survival game where you play as a clone that has been sent down to an unexplored planet to prepare for it to be colonised by humanity. Over the course of hundreds of years you must uncover what your new home planet has to offer, build up and manage a sustainable habitat, fight the unknown and inevitably die as your new clones are born and the world evolves around you.

This is a student project developed at AIE by 5 students and a music producer over the course 9 weeks

(3 weeks pre-production and 6 weeks production)

Team:

Developer & Programmer - Scott Ritchie
Design - Luke Boon
Character & Environment Artist - Alexandra Neville
Environment Artist - Twinkle Taylor
Hard Surface Artist - Scott Hammond
Composer - Blake Mead

A core game play theme is "Death to Progress". The gameplay takes place over thousands of real world years, the player must discover, gather and build in order to survive. But death is inevitable if they want to progress, so they must make sure that they can sustain themselves while a new clone is grown. Fast forward many years and new clone will be born into a changed world.

Features:

Resource discovery and gathering
Base building
Power management
Growing world
Day night cycle
Death to progress

Contributions:

In Engine
- Project & Plugin Setup and management.
- Programming
  - Character Controller
  - Camera Controller
  - World Time Manager
    - Day Night Cycle
  - Evolution Objects
  - Building System
    - Power System
    - Resource System
  - Interaction System
    - Harvesting
    - Scanning
      - Particle System
  - Item Management & Data Base
- Animation
  - Non Character Animations.
  - Character State machine Setup
- Shader Creation
- User Interface
  - Ship UI Implementation
  - Build & Scan UI Implementation
- Particle System Creation / Modification
Asset Creation
- UI Elements
- Assisted Technical Art Direction
Assisted Design Decisions
Source Control Setup and management
Documentation creation
Team meetings and General Discussion