Pollen - Flying Action Roguelike

Pollen is a 3rd person flying shooter with six degrees of freedom and rogue-like-like elements including procedural levels and permadeath. It's being developed by me, Matt, as a one man team in Unity. I'm using it as a project to teach myself about scripting and game design. My main skill set is music (I've been a musician for about 15 years) and now I'm teaching myself how to make games. Mainly this is because I like to do things that are hard. And fun!

Here's a Unity webplayer:

http://www.mirrorfishmedia.com/v1/pollen/pollen_v031/pollen_v031.html

Style: I'm going for a low poly, playstation one graphical feel. Lots of primitives, few textures. This is a combination of necessity and aiming for a post-pixel 'retro' feel.

Stuff in the game:

Randomized procedural level geometry
Player flight controls
basic shooting
homing missiles
one enemy type
basic enemy AI
basic enemy pursuit / wandering movement
4 basic environments: foggy water, dark desert, bamboo, underwater ice.
two music tracks
title screen
gameover screen
Randomized player powerups
lots more music tracks

Stuff that's coming:

Win state
more enemy types
larger boss-like enemies
lots of control tuning

Here's a screenshot for a taste:

 

hey guys,

I made a video that shows gameplay, sound, randomized powerups, randomized level geometry.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeFQ7TSFSNo

If you guys have a chance to give feedback I'll be happy to return it on your project.

 

Hey,

That looks very interesting - the sound design is great!

The first thing that struck me was the way the game paused so you could select (I think) the power up.

I'm curious as to why, as 'traditionally' powerups take effect immediately - you just pick them up and they engage.

Is there a reason for the difference, or am I reading something wrongly?

Cheers,

QS =D

 

I don't know exactly what I was looking at in the video, but it was pretty cool.

The giant spheres were a little distracting but I assumed that maybe those were stand-ins for an explosion effect?

I really liked the procedural level generation stuff.