Macondo by The Sea

MACONDO BY THE SEA

CONTROL:

WASD & mouse for movement & looking around

*I highly recommend playing the downloadable version*

Macondo by The Sea brings a nostalgic experience, players explore a village set in a magical realist world, a distant, artificial island that aims to evoke the feeling of solitude.

Development documentation:

Version 02012021: Game is called "Dead World", experimenting with a low poly aesthetics, trying to get the texture and lighting to look right. This build has the original "horror" approach. Also a rough build of the game world using terrain editor.

Version 02052021: change of direction in terms of narrative and mood, now the game focuses on "solitude" and "nostalgia". Game world rebuilt into an island with cliffs as boundaries, no longer using terrain editor, the terrain is mostly smooth and flat.  A few houses added. Certain elements from last built kept: skeleton and skybox. 

Version 02062021: forest added, terrain now has texture, and visible walls. Experimented with post processing to lighting settings. Added sound effect: ambience, soundtrack, and footsteps. Limited player movement, jumping and sprinting are no longer allowed. Player starting position is set up. Rough build of underground tunnel.

Version 02102021: added details to the terrain, such as flowers, rocks, etc. Fixed technical issues from playtest: mouse sensitivity, sound volume.

Version 1.0: changed the name of the game to "Macondo by The Sea", optimization to a degree for framerate, the village (where it only had a few houses as placeholder) is fully built, same goes with the underground tunnel. Main level also added an end point to end the game. Added starting menu and ending screen. 

Version 1.1(WebGL only): set the default quality setting from "high" to "very high", a few frame drops but visually better.

Development pictures: 

Placing all the details by hand

Unsatisfied with the Unity terrain tree painter so some of the grasses (these are prefabs therefore I could not use the detail painter)  are placed by hands.

The starting menu really is just a separate, identical level as the main with an UI overlay.

Screenshots from recording of playtests.

This game uses 3rd party assets from Unity Asset Store:

Simple Farm by Synty Studios

  Low Poly Boat Yard by Abhishek Shindekar

  Low Poly Water by Ebru Dogan

  Customizable Skybox by Key Mouse

  Low Poly Free Vegetation Pack by Catalin Pavel

  Low Poly Cliff Pack by Broken Vector   Low Poly Skeleton by Asoliddev