Apollo: Blitz the Moon

Apollo is an endless runner game, in which you pilot a Hovership across the surface of the moon. Avoid the rocks and get as far as you can!

Check out the gameplay right here: https://youtu.be/XvhCE7lx-ao

Apollo is built on Unity.

Controls

Movement: A and D (or the left and right arrow keys)

Pause: Esc, Space, Enter or P

Quit: Esc (on Title and Score screens only), "Quit" Button in Pause Menu (Play screen only)

Build Status

This public version is completed.

A close-sourced version of Apollo is still in the works. However, this repository will no longer be updated with the latest code.

Features

Apollo features a fully procedurally-generated game world that you can traverse through on your hovership. It is based on Sebastian Lague's Procedural Terrain Generation video series, but has been adapted to include the following:

• Optimizations for an Endless Runner (Terrain Object pooling, not updating chunks behind vehicle)
• Two Additional Types of Noise (Ridged and Billow)
• A Terrain Object Population System (modified from Sebastian Lague's Poisson Disc Sampling video to allow multi-radii outputs)
• A Curved World Shader

Apollo also features a Hovercraft physics system. It is based on Unity's Hover Racer Demo, modified to include the following:

• Four kinds of movement (Free Strafing, Free Turning, Strafing for Endless Runner, Turning for Endless Runner)
• Additional tweakable parameters (eg. Responsiveness to ground rotation, turn responsiveness)

Installation

You would need to install Unity to run this project. It is built on Unity 2020.1.4f1, though other versions of Unity should be able to open the project as well (untested). Directly downloading and unzipping the repository should allow Unity to open it as a new project. It runs on the Built-in Render Pipeline.

The working folder is Assets. Here, you can find both the game assets used as well as the scripts that the game runs on. Here is a breakdown of the folders:

• The Scripts folder is where the C# scripts containing the game logic can be found. This is where most of the work will be done.
• The Editor Scripts folder contains the C# scripts used to edit the Unity Editor for easy tweaking and debugging.
• The Terrain Assets folder houses the Scriptable Object assets that hold the settings for terrain generation.
• The Material folder contains the materials used for the terrain, while Resources contains the materials used for the "Rocks and Boulders 2" prefabs.
• The Scenes folder contains the Scene objects. There are three Scenes: the Start State, Play State and Score State.
• The Fonts folder contains the fonts used in the game. All fonts come from the Lato family of fonts.
• The UI folder contains any assets or images required for the UI. At the moment it only contains a White Screen PNG.
• The Standard Assets folder contains the prefab for a first-person controller and associated scripts. It is used for debugging only.

The following folders contain free assets from the Unity Asset Store:

• Environment Assets
• Vehicles
• Effects

The Sound folder contains Royalty-Free effects and music used in the project.

Credits

Resources used:

• Procedural Terrain Generation (Video Series) by Sebastian Lague
• Poisson Disc Sampling Video by Sebastian Lague
• Hover Racer Demo (Unite Austin 2017) by Unity

Assets Used:

• AllSkyFree by RPGWHITELOCK
• Starfield Skybox by PULSAR BYTES
• Rocks and Boulders 2 by MANUFACTURA K4
• Dieselpunk Hovercraft 01 PBR by ALEXANDER Z
• Star Sparrow Modular Spaceship by EBAL STUDIOS

Sound Effects and Music Used (Royalty-Free):

• Cyber Dream Loop by Soundimage.org
• The Darkness Below by Soundimage.org
• Explosion - Fireball by Zapsplat

License

This project is licensed by the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0.

GNU © Nicholas Ho