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Mirror Platformer
This is a short platformer that I made for a final project for class. It's rushed and I wish I could have spent more time on the level design, but I'm still pretty happy with it. Me and a friend in class were talking about platformers and he recommended that I try Pseudoregalia, a retro-style 3D platformer metroidvania (an uncommon combination of genres). I enjoyed the game, and it inspired me to add a some-what similar kind of wall jump to my game. Instead of jumping perpendicularly off of walls, as you would in a Mario game, you jump off the wall at angle that is a reflection off the wall of the direction your character was facing. I wish I had time to make the mechanic a little deeper and to push it farther in the level design. That's all right though, I'll just have to add it to my next 3D platformer as well.
The game is challenging, but if you like platformers, then hopefully you won't mind. Unfortunately, I never got around to adding sound effects this time. Hopefully you don't encounter any bugs, but that is entirely possible.
Running an Unreal Engine Game
If you want to play it yourself, you'll have to download the zip, extract, and run the executable. I recommend that you leave everything inside the unzipped folder; the executable and the other files have to be in the same place. Because this game is made with Unreal Engine, it probably won't run well on most computers. To remedy this, I recommend that you adjust the graphics quality by pressing 1...4 after the game loads, unless you have a decently powerful computer.
Controls
Keyboard
- Look: Mouse
- Move: WASD / ↑←↓→
- Jump: Space
- Warp to Checkpoint: F
- Change Graphics Quality: 1...4 (Low to high quality)
- Quit: Escape
Controller
- Look: Right Stick
- Move: Left Stick
- Jump: North Button / Right Trigger / Right Shoulder
- Warp to Checkpoint: South Button
Credits
- Triplanar mapping (what makes the block textures align to the world gird) is thanks to Visual Tech Art's tutorial video