Parkour Game Prototype

cybereality

Here is a prototype I made in Godot with Blender and GIMP on Ubuntu.

Very early, this is with a few weeks of work, but already the controls are pretty fun.

Let me know what you think. Thanks.

novaleaf

nice demo! If you haven't seen this before, it might be interesting: https://github.com/etodd/Lemma it's a parkour game written in xna.

TwistedTwigleg

Looks really cool @cybereality!

Out of curiosity, are you using raycasts to detect parkour elements? Or are you using another method? I’ve used raycasts for a prototype project of mine but my transitions were not very smooth and I had to use a number of raycasts to determine what part of the environment would be suitable for what action. Regardless of how you are doing it, it looks great!

cybereality

@novaleaf Thanks. I bought Lemma but I haven't played it yet. Didn't realize they open-sourced the code. I'll have to give that a look. Nice find on the link.

cybereality

Thanks, @TwistedTwigleg. I'm using multiple ray casts in different directions to detect invisible collision shapes. Works well for a prototype, but I may have to rethink this method as the world grows larger.

Hippo

The movement looks really smooth and fluid, keep up the good work!

TwistedTwigleg

@cybereality said: Thanks, @TwistedTwigleg. I'm using multiple ray casts in different directions to detect invisible collision shapes. Works well for a prototype, but I may have to rethink this method as the world grows larger.

Ah! That makes sense. In the prototype I made I decided (for better or worse, probably worse) to use the physics environment the character interacts with, which makes determining if a surface is suitable for certain actions difficult. Using invisible collision shapes sounds like a much easier to manage system.

Thanks for explaining and best of luck with your project :smile:

novaleaf

just thinking out loud, an alternate idea for parkour detection: an invisible bounding sphere around your character, and brute-force loop through all "parkour elements" it intersects to decide what your character interacts with (Based on your characters velocity, orientation, button presses, etc)

novaleaf

also, @cybereality are you going to do this 1st person or 3rd person? If you do 3rd person I think it would be a good idea to build a character system that blends animations which include root translation with procedural root transforms. (so not using one or the other, but both). I have a plan to research the topic myself, once I get my world generation prototyped.

emo10001

@cybereality Nice! I really like the movement. Looks good!

cybereality

It's a first person game but I will eventually be adding a player model. I'll probably need some blending and manual IK but I haven't got that far to test it.