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Me, too -- laughing at the dancing zombies! Sometimes, I would just keep jumping up there to buy me a bit more time just to stay there a bit longer to watch the dancing! What makes it funnier is that the dance is not just any dance -- it's Micheal Jackson's Thriller, in which he and the background dancers were some kind of zombies, too. Now, the zombies are dancing to the iconic classical Waltz, which surprisingly matches the dance moves pretty well.

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Haha...got stuck under King Kong! XD I want to experience it, too! No, it's not intended. Very curious... because King Kong does not even have a collider.

Yea, the control is not conventional WASD movement because the character is on-rails and it's 3D side-scrolling. I have to get creative and experiment with some non-conventional controls.

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Yea, those sharp turns and u-turns can make one dizzy. One of the things I am experimenting with such a 3D side-scrolling "rail-runner" game is how to make the camera following the player character while she is turning in the 3D environment. For the jam, I only started with the very basic Unity's Cinemachine camera follow. I definitely want to look into having more control over the Cinemachine camera, and there are many choices and parameters.

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Interesting... Mind telling me which browser and OS you are using? I have tested it everyday on Firefox, Chrome, and Edge on Windows on different laptops, even with a gamepad as the controller, without such a weird problem.

Oh, btw, the character is designed to constantly running to the right, and the camera follows the player. It's a side-scrolling "runner" game; there is NOT a movement control using WASD. But the CAMERA should NOT be spinning like crazy.

Ah...yea, I should have turned off the cursor-hiding function that came with the controller I am using, because I am not using the features that require cursor hiding anyway. I hate the cursor hiding causing the browser to lose focus, too.

On my laptop, which is not a high-end at all, only chokes at scene loading for a second. But...weighing choking for a second in a browser vs. only a few people would play a downloadable, I choose the browser. :D

I am not much of a gamer, so not sure how the common jump is in most games...but the jump in the Unity's sample 3rd person controller and the character controller I am using are all in-place jump, without forward movement. In my other game, I did have to add code to add in the forward movement for the jump, though.

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And it's not just any dance, it's Michael Jackson's Thriller!  :D  Now dancing to the classical Waltz.

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The current state of the game is more like the "moments" and visual style I want to have in my game. It's more a "concept art" and experiment of the idea and mechanics of a "rail-runner" type of a 3D side-scroller. As I mentioned on the game's page -- to avid gamers, my current game is just no more than a music video with optional clicking.

If given more time, I would add in more variety of actions to perform in capturing the items, more rooms, more branching of the route, actual boss fights, and actual usage of the collected items, such as for boss fights and abilities/mana.

The route branching can be random or the player's choice. I already have one random branching in the Library scene, which is at the end of the rows of bookshelves. I ran out of time to add more. I had experimented with letting the player choose which branch, but had not found a solution that's not confusing to players within the jam time. So, it's just random now -- the player may randomly go to the left or right staircase.

Because the player is "on rails", I also have to get clever about how to give the player choices to touch the items that are not perfectly on the path of the rail. An obvious solution is to place them higher at different heights,  just like in 2D platformers, as she can double or triple jump. As for the items off to the either side, after having experimented with different strategies, I added an expanding Aura (the blue bubble -- the collider, which had actually helped me visualize the collider volume for debugging). If given more time, I would experiment with those previous ideas more extensively, besides other new ideas.

I will definitely revisit Star Fox 64, which, if I remember correctly, is kind of a rail-shooter. It is definitely an excellent example to learn from, let alone the fun of replaying it. :D

There will be boss fights, which will be in an enclosed arena, where the player will be released from "rails" and become free to roam. In fact, I had already picked an arena from the Dungeon Map pack but did not have time to implement the idea for the jam.

Kinda like a music video, isn't it? :D

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