LANDING ON MARS

Virtual Reality game project designed for the course at the Polytechnic University of Turin in collaboration with Mars Planet research team. 

Developers: Emanuele Munacò, Elena Rita Trovato and Monica Di Fabbio.

GAME TRAILER:

BACKGROUND STORY:

The poor little mars rover's “Curiosity” has pushed it too far! It has landed in a very bad way and its body is now full of bumps and bruises. The worst thing about it is that some parts are missing! And without them it can’t do its job and come back home, so it has gotta catch them all!

AIM OF THE GAME:

You are the poor little mars rover in first person, so now it's your turn!

Search for gears, oil and battery packs around the planet but be aware of the really dangerous inhabitants that won’t be really happy to see you snooping around. No one knows better than you that Mars is full of life, so pay attention!

INSTRUCTIONS:

Collect all the gears that you can find on the ground in order to repair your base ship and return to planet Earth.

ENEMIES:

Be careful of aliens! They are your enemies:>

UFO: can damage you with its light cone (You can not kill it)

ALIEN WASP: if it sees you, it will come towards you and damage your body with its blades (You can shoot and kill it)

FLYING EYEBALL: if it sees you, it will start to shoot at you its energy ballsYou can shoot and kill them  (You can shoot and kill it)

POWER UPS:

OILER: speeds up your run for a short time

SHIELD: protects you from any damage, but just for a short time

MUNITIONS PACK: gives you the chance to use a more powerful weapon with a limited amount of munitions included

BATTERY PACK: makes you recharge your energy

KEY CONTROLS:

MOVE: WASD, ← ↑ →

RUN: shift + move

JUMP: spacebar

TURN: mouse moving

SHOOT: mouse left click

PAUSE: esc key

GAME STRUCTURE:

It is possible to play on every Mars terrain you like by simply loading a DTM in raw format. There are 3 main levels and 2 bonus levels.

Basic equipment: Laser gun with unlimited munitions but really slow reload time (search for munitions pack in order to get a more powerful weapon with a limited amount of munitions included).

You have to collect 50 gears before running low on energy (time based), then a special base ship will abduct you and bring to its inside room, where a random button sequence has to be repeated in order to achieve the bonus useful for the next level.

Level 1 (EASY) : UFO and ALIEN WASP enemies, power ups and two different guns.

Bonus level 1: Repeat the shown sequence and achieve a more powerful gun without having to search for a munition pack in the next level plus a complete energy recharge.

Level 2 (MEDIUM) : UFO, ALIEN WASP and FLYING EYEBALL enemies, power ups and two different guns.

Bonus level 2: Repeat the shown sequence and achieve a more powerful gun without having to search for a munition pack in the next level plus a complete energy recharge.

Level 3 (HARD) : UFO, ALIEN WASP, FLYING EYEBALL enemies, power ups and two different guns.

HOW TO LOAD A TERRAIN:

First of all, install GDAL on you computer. GDAL is a translator library for raster and vector geospatial data formats that is released under an X/MIT style Open Source license by the Open Source Geospatial Foundation. 

 Useful links: 

Windows - https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/BuildingOnWindows 

Mac - https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/BuildingOnMac 

Unix - https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/BuildingOnUnix 

Then run this line of code on your terminal, choosing the DTM as the input image and giving a name to the RAW output one. 

gdal_translate -ot UInt16 -scale -of ENVI -outsize 1025 1025 Mars_DTM.IMG Mars_DTM.raw

And if you want to crop it a little…

gdal_translate -ot UInt16 -scale -of ENVI -outsize 1025 1025 -projwin -2433.233 1063672.169 2003.069 1051451.878 Mars_DTM.IMG Mars_DTM.raw

LINKS & CREDITS:

https://www.marsplanet.org/

https://www.uahirise.org/

https://www.polito.it/

Thanks to:

Designed by macrovector / Freepik for the UI Menu button image

NASA/JPL-Caltech for the Rover in the Menu image

3DHaupt for the "Eye Monster" model

WangMandingo for the "Bob Lazar Ufo" model

Emanuele Munacò for the soundtrack

SCREENSHOTS: