Defend Grab

A Mixed Reality Colocated space where you and another player must defend the last cube of fuel on the planet from oncoming swarms of alien spaceships from X. Remember, the fuel cube is also explosive!

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Inspiration

Really used this opportunity to learn; navmesh, AI, networking - especially networking.

What it does

Colocated space where multiple players shoot and destroy incoming spaceships that are targeting a networked object, but will explode if shot by you or your co-defender also!

How we built it

Used navmesh system and learned networking. BTW, the networked grabbable objects and all the Building Blocks made this project doable! Frankly, without the quick prototyping of the Building Blocks I'd be screwed!

Challenges we ran into

Can't figure out in the time alloted how to include vertical movement with navmesh! Plus, took a long time to debug spaceships trapped in walls. Surprisingly, found networking kinda just made sense.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Really proud of finally learning network and the coding that goes into it - I decided from the start that I would handwrite - and understand(!) - all the code.

What we learned

Full on first try at networking - what a great way to build!

What's next for Defend Grab

This is just a demo to prove out the concept - I know it's kinda bare, but I'm ok with that. I'm really looking forward to building out a vertical component to the navmesh travel; thinking maybe vertical navmeshs or hidden ramps.

Built With

  • buildingblocks
  • c#
  • colocation
  • netcode
  • unity
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