#Mouse in a maze

This is a game being developed with Unity and C# as a senior project in the Yale Computer Science Department (CPSC 490).

Advisor: Holly Rushmeier.

##Game Overview

• This game is a maze-based world that the player has to explore in first person, all the while contending with the demands and map alterations of an unfriendly, powerful being (the game AI) in control of the situation.
• Communication with the AI occurs via a text interface (allowing me to avoid the need for voice actors).
• The player starts the game in an unfamiliar grey room with 1-4 doors leading out to hallways.
• The hallways lead to identical rooms – these hallways and doors constitute the maze, and are designed with a scientific simplicity and blandness in mind.
• As the game progresses, the player has to decide whether or not to comply with the increasingly strange demands issued by a being that seems to be in control of this place. If the player complies, the game will become noticeably easier, with the being providing helpful hints and shortcuts.
• If the player does not comply, the being will become increasingly hostile, thwarting the player at every turn: locking the player in a room for a few minutes, spinning the maze to confuse orientation, moving hallways in the maze if the player is on the right path, and lengthening hallways.
• The game should leave the player with the sense that they must choose between their own agency and winning the game – they can comply in order to win, with the downside that the being will mock them as weak for doing so (and the ending will be less satisfying).

##Guide to the code

• Assets/Resources folder. This contains Unity scripts, prefabs, and scenes needed to run the game.

• _scripts: Contains code for creating the maze, the player, the AI, and other Unity specific code.

  • AI: All code related to the AI.
  • Player: All code related to the player.
  • Maze: All code related to the maze.
  • Utils: Miscellaneous additional code.

• prefabs: Contains the prefabs for all game objects.

• materials: Contains game materials.

• scenes: Contains the scene that, when run, starts the game.

• images: Contains any images needed for the game.

• GameLines: Contains text interchanges for the game and other lines that the AI says throughout.

• Graph. This VS solution contains my implementation of a barebones graph class.

• IntVector2. This VS solution contains code for a useful struct containing 2 ints, since Unity doesnt currently support C# tuples.

Almost everything else is files that are auto-generated by Unity or Visual Studio.

##Licensing

This is totally open source: Use whatever you want, however you want!

Note that I did not include some of the textures and models needed to run the game. The two asset packages I used from the asset store were Free Steel Ladder Pack and Modular Abandoned Slaughterhouse (both are free in the store, and it shouldnt be too hard to get the lamp/ladder models and other textures from there). The location of these asset packs in my version of the project are in the Assets folder -- adding them there should get the project to work.

##Acknowledgments

A huge thank you to Professor Holly Rushmeier for advising this project.

In addition, thanks to Jasper Flick's Unity Maze tutorial (http://catlikecoding.com/unity/tutorials/maze/); I used this code to get started on this project.