Cubix-EndlessRunner

Table of Contents

• Overview

• How to Play

• Features

  • Version 1.3
  • Version 1.2
  • Version 1.0

• Credits

Overview

Navigate a neon cube through a glowing endless map! Shrink as you go, grow by collecting cubes and dodge vibrant obstacles. Stay alive or explode into glowing pieces! ✨. This early release features fast-paced gameplay, a stylish design and challenges your reflexes.

How to Play

• Unity Play showcase version: Play the game on Unity Play

• Latest version: Play the game on itch.io

• Movement: Use the arrow keys or WASD.

• Dodge the obstacles, collect the coins and collect the cubes to gain size.

• Try to get the highest score as the pace of the game gradually increases.

Features

Version 1.3

• Visual Effects::

  • Retro Effect: Implemented a retro-inspired look with post-processing effects such as bloom, Panini projection, vignette, chromatic aberration, film grain, and motion blur.
  • Atmospheric Fog: Added a fog effect to enhance the horizon.
  • Grid Plane: Created a grid as the primary ground element for the retro style.
  • Collectable Particles: Introduced particle effects to enhance the visual appeal of collectables.

• UI:

  • Leaderboard Integration: Added leaderboards to both the main menu and the game over panel, featuring name and score submission functionality.
  • Menu Redesign: Redesigned the main menu and game over panel for improved aesthetics and usability.

• Sound:

  • Theme Music Update: Replaced the main theme music with a new track.
  • Sound Effects: Added sound effects for crashes, collectables, line changes, and button clicks.

Version 1.2

• Player Mechanics:

  • Size increase and decrease.
  • Acceleration depends on level maximum speed.

• Game Systems:

  • Game Over System: The player dies when the cube's size shrinks until their health bar is depleted.
  • Player Health System: Player decreases in size over time and increases in size as player collect cubes. The health bar updates according to player size.
  • Obstacle System: There are different types of obstacles: motionless, horizontally moving and vertically moving. They appear by random chance.
  • Curved World System: The world is curved with a custom shader. The curve value is randomly generated on the X or Y axis.

• Visual Effects::

  • Custom Shaders: There ara custom shaders for curve and glow effects.
  • Player Particle: Small neon cube particles are present for size loss effect.
  • Player Trail: As the player speed increases, neon trails appear.

Version 1

• Player Mechanics:

  • Horizontal line change movement with arrow keys. ( 3 line )
  • Acceleration over time.

• Sounds:

  • Game Sounds: Background music.

• Game Systems:

  • Spawn Systems: There are spawn systems for ground, obstacles and coins.
  • High Score and Coin Systems: There are level base and total count for score and coins. Used PlayerPrefs.
  • Game Over System: When colliding with an obstacle, the camera shakes and the player turns into small cubes. Level data is reset.

• UI:

  • Main Menu: The starting screen where players can begin the game or exit.
  • Game Over Panel: Displayed when the player die. It contain main menu and retry buttons.

• Visual Effects::

  • Post-Processing: Applied glow effects to the player, obstacles, coins, and ground to give a neon effect.
  • TextMesh Pro(TMP): Texts are styled with glow effects for a polished UI experience.

Credits

This project uses various assets from the Unity Asset Store. Below are the credits and links to the assets used:

Sound Effects:

• Sound Effects Pack for background music