The game
Requirements
Illustrations
Networking

Project realised in two weeks with Emilien Grude, Thibaud Serre, Quentin Boucher and Thomas Chantelose. I wrote all the code for this project.
Super Galaxy Contest was made for the Virtual Fantasy contest at Laval Virtual 2016 exhibition, and was awarded with the price of Interaction.

You can watch the trailer on YouTube.
You can also find more artwork on Emilien Grude's Artstation

In short, Super Galaxy Contest is a football game played with two players in each team, with a bit of "Capture the Flag".

Each player is the team has a unique role, a player can either be the "Snooper" or the "Roamer".

• Snoopers:

  1. Take the flag
  2. Tackle each others (to take the flag)
  3. Bring the flag to their roamers

• Roamers :

  1. Focus on the ball
  2. Defend their goal
  3. Score goals
  4. Use special abilities to improve allies or weaken ennemies for a short time *Roamers can only use one special ability per flag brought home by Snoopers.

• Points are received by:

  1. Scoring a goal (5 points)
  2. Bringing a flag home (1 point)

While Unity is required to run this game, hardware is the biggest requirement.
You will need:

• 1 server setup:
  • 1 computer with 1 screen (the screen is spectators, use a big one or a projector !)
• 2 client setups, one for each team :
  • 1 computer with 2 screens (one for each player in the team)
  • 1 controller (with used XBox controllers)
  • 1 Novint Falcon
• A router, to setup the network

• User interface:

• Roamer view:

• Snooper view:

• Spectator view:

• The lobby : White marks become pink or blue (color depends on the team) when players are ready. The "Ready" mark in the center becomes white when the current player becomes ready.

The biggest challenge for me in this project was the networking. I just discovered UNet (with the SuperDwarves Tavern Championship project).
There were three difficulties:

1. Which computer has authority on the ball (computers with authority decides how the ball behaves with physics):
   • This problem was solved by giving authority to the last team that hit the ball
   • We used one computer for two players, reducing the amount of networking required
2. Make a lobby that setups itself automatically and quickly (this game was made for an exhibition):
   • Setup files were given to each computers, giving them all the informations they needed to connect
   • We used a separate router, with ethernet, to ensure reliability at the exhibition
   • We used broadcasting, to allow clients to discover the server automatically
3. Synchronizing player states:
   • We used components built-in Unity but we still had jitters sometimes, mostly on the server.
   • This includes animations, positions, state (tackling, running, traped, ...)