harshaxnim/babydontyoucry

An open-source XR game built in Unity.

BabyDontYouCry

An open-source XR game of hunting animals in the dark built using Unity.

Game Description

You need to use your hearing to aim in the direction and "fling" the phone to shoot an arrow at the animal.

Project Highlights

• Gyro-controller to get the player orientation and control the player in the game world.
• A minimal procedurally generated landscape.
• A glow shader that makes the animal eyes glow.

babydontyoucry's Issues

Focus Mode: Sound

Modify the sounds when focussing so that it's easier to spot the animal sounds:

• Pass ambient sounds through a low pass filter. 👈 Preferred!
  Alternatively,
• Low Pass all the sounds not in FOV of the playerCamera.

Create an Animal Spawner

Implement a Gyro Controller

• Camera needs to be controlled by Gyro.
• A function to allow reset.
• Smoothen the motion. (Did not make a difference)
• Integrate into the actual scene.

Sprites need z-buffer write enabled

The sprites currently do not write to the z-buffer and hence making the stars shine on top of them.!!

Move UI elements to a different camera

The UI elements should not get over-ridden by screen effects such as focus. Not urgent, but need to do these at some point of time!

Binaural Audio Engine

Make the binaural audio more accurate...

• HRTF Feasible?

Camera Enhancements

Need to implement effects to the camera to better the gameplay experience.

Attach the 3D Sound to the Animal Spawned location(s)

Add Fireflies

Need to add fireflies

Create fabs for the eyes

Get help from the artists for the eyes.

Camera Focus Mode

Initial Camera Position needs to be horizontal

Whenever the game starts, the camera is set to horizontal w.r.t the current orientation. If the camera was facing down, the game thinks that this was the horizontal. Rather, the game should look at the magnetometer/accelerometer value, calculate what is the orientation of horizontal and then adjust accordingly.

Button to reset the gyro camera

Need a button that is visible in game which allows players to reset the gyro readings.

Gameplay Experience Enhancers

All the features that are not required per se, but enhance the gameplay go here.

Glow shader for the eyes

The eyes need to give creepy feeling to the player.

Very Basic Home Menu

Game UI

All the UI elements will go into this Epic.

Misc Game Features

• Background sounds
• Controller
• UI

Create a shader for stars particle to make it twinkle like a real star

The stars right now do not twinkle. They just appear and disappear in a blink!

When paused, going to home screen takes way too long

This happens because the time scale has been dilated and checking for the long press of the pause menu takes that much more time. Need to handle this by either rescaling the long press timer or some-other way.

Focus Mode: Visuals

The visibility should increase to spot the animals easier:

• Write shaders that will achieve this. Needs more clarity.

Motion Blur

Animal Spawner

This will spawn animals at random places.

• Create a spawner function which functions similar to the treeSpawner.

  • Make sure it has a parameter for the number of animals to spawn.

• Attach the 3D Sound to the location(s)

• Show the eyes

  • Get eyes drawn out from someone
  • Glow the eyes

UI Element showing burndown of the the Focus

"Focus" is limited and burns down on usage. Will replenish over time. We need an UI to show the burndown.

Background sounds

The wind gushing, crickets and the grass rustling.