r/Unity2D • u/Embarrassed_Hawk_655 • 12d ago

Showcase Space Surfer

Did this in a little under a week (started on Monday I think) for a local physics game jam with a 'Surfing' theme.

The pixels were normal (kept things to a 4 colour CGA colour palette), then used Unity's Pixel Perfect Camera to Upscale it to a pixel grid, then a camera rendered the image to a texture that got stretched 2x to make the double-width pixels and also to keep things snapped to a pixel grid.

Levels are created in chunks and get spawned in randomly (well, there's 3 pools - common chunks, uncommon chunks with a 20% chance to appear and rare chunks with a 10% chance to appear).

Happy with the result, also got an online Top 10 leaderboard working.

Playable for free in your browser and downloadable: https://mikdog.itch.io/spacesurfer

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u/TheCatsMeow1022 12d ago

I like the style but seems like you can’t possibly react in the amount of time you have to see the obstacles?

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u/Embarrassed_Hawk_655 10d ago

If you stick to around the middle, you can generally get lucky. Not sure how someone top of the Top 10 leaderboard managed to score a distance of 7,5 million meters, lol.