A mystery-detective game made in a 9-membered team as part of Studio Centauri, the game development society of IIT Kanpur. The game developed for BYOG Game Jam 2021, a 3-day game jam organized by the Gamedev.in, a community of Indian game developers. The theme of the game jam that we used was “2 views”.
Who done it? is a detective game where you dig into a murder case with differing point of views. There are 2 major witnesses of the murder, both of which tell a different story. You have to look for clues, listen to witness testimonies for said clues and piece-together what truly happend that fateful night!
Word done as part of the developed process included:-
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if (Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0) && canClick)
{
Ray mRay = Camera.main.ScreenPointToRay(Input.mousePosition);
RaycastHit hit;
if (Physics.Raycast(mRay, out hit, maxDistance, layerMask))
{
if (hit.collider.gameObject.tag == "Ground")
{
playermovement.MovePlayer(hit.point);
}
else if (hit.collider.gameObject.tag == "Witness")
{
playermovement.MoveToTarget(hit.point);
canClick = false;
dialogueNPC = hit.collider.gameObject;
}
else if (hit.collider.gameObject.tag == "clue")
{
canClick = false;
clueObject = hit.collider.transform.gameObject;
Vector3 point = hit.point;
point.y = 0;
playermovement.MoveToTarget(point, true);
}
}
}
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// Shift camera view
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Vector3 direction = lookObject.transform.position - player.transform.position;
direction.Normalize();
Vector3 desiredForward = Vector3.Lerp(transform.forward, direction, moveFactor);
Vector3 up = Vector3.up;
Vector3 forward = desiredForward;
Vector3 right = Vector3.Cross(up, forward);
up = Vector3.Cross(forward, right);
Vector3 desiredPos = player.transform.position +
forward * dialogueOffset.z + up * dialogueOffset.y + right * dialogueOffset.x;
transform.position = Vector3.Lerp(transform.position, desiredPos, moveFactor / 2.0f);
transform.forward = Vector3.Lerp(transform.forward,
(lookObject.transform.position - transform.position).normalized, moveFactor);
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// Alter the aspect ratio
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Vector2 currentRes = new Vector2(Screen.width, Screen.height);
Vector2 targetRes = currentRes;
if ((dialogueAR.x / dialogueAR.y) > (currentRes.x / currentRes.y))
{
targetRes.y = (targetRes.x / dialogueAR.x) * dialogueAR.y;
}
else
{
targetRes.x = (targetRes.y / dialogueAR.y) * dialogueAR.x;
}
Vector2 offset = ((currentRes - targetRes) / currentRes) / 2.0f;
offset = Vector2.Lerp(new Vector2(Camera.main.rect.x, Camera.main.rect.y), offset, moveFactor);
targetRes /= currentRes;
targetRes = Vector2.Lerp(new Vector2(Camera.main.rect.width, Camera.main.rect.height),
targetRes, moveFactor);
Camera.main.rect = new Rect(offset.x, offset.y, targetRes.x, targetRes.y);
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