Milendall

Milendall aims to be an escape first-person view game in a maze with non-euclidean geometry and variable gravity rules. It can be played in single or multi-player modes.

Mazes can be generated randomly, with control on the randomness aspects at various levels, to make them interesting from a player's point-of-view. A set of pre-computed mazes (levels) are available.

Pitch

Gwenaëlle, a 12 year old girl, is making a dream in which she is playing to get out of a maze, and she has a only a few minutes left to escape before she awakes. However, this is a wonderful dream with lots of wonder (unicorns and alikes), so that she isn't scared at all.

Game Goal

In single player mode:

• Get out of a maze in a given amount of time.

In multi-player mode:

• TBD

Maze characteristics

In both cases:

• Maze is globally non-euclidean at the maze scale, but euclidean at local scale (in spaces called rooms)
• Mazes are bound (not open worlds), but can loop in bizarre ways
• Gravity is dynamic and unusual
• Objects can be rescaled when passing through some gates
• There are some objects left that gives time bonuses / maluses
• Objects can change in nature, contrary to most FPS (time bonuses become time maluses, and so on...)
• There are triggers that can be volontarily activated and others are unvolontary. Those triggers can move objects (open doors, move lifts, ...)
• Messages are sent to the player: room's name when entering one, subtle meaningful messages or useless ones,...

Organization

This doc is organized as follows:

• 0 Game specification
• 1 Mazes generation process
• 2 Writing new mazes
• 3 Writing new mazes elements
• 4 Game engine