Ovarium: The Battle Within WIP - UDK Mobile

Hey all. :-)

At our school, teams of four were challenged to prototype a fully functioning game in two weeks using UDK mobile, and to get it working on an iPad or iPhone.

We'd love to share our result with you. This is our prototype, called Ovarium: The Battle Within. It's a top down shooter where you play as a birth control pill that needs to protect the egg from being fertilized by hordes of sperm!

So after two weeks, and learning a ton about the mobile editor, the team is moving forward with fleshing this idea out to provide a more complete game experience and an actual release. The art style in the current version is simply placeholder art at the moment. We're veering away from realistic and we'll be posting a new gameplay video with the new art style soon!

A lot of the game is driven by kismet, but sections like the ship's movement and the spawning of the enemies are done in code. The high score tracker is also in kismet but is being redone in code. Basically, everything was made from scratch, apart from the audio track, which is just a fun nod to "Look Who's Talking." The audio will be original as well.

The gameplay video shows the basics of what we were able to accomplish in two weeks and is a small slice of the mechanics we are implementing for the next version, plus the new art style.

These new features include:

- Faster, frantic gameplay, a la Geometry Wars.
- At least three types of sperm enemies including a Sperm Whale!
- Escorting the egg as it travels through the fallopian tube, Day 1, Day 2 ect... waves approach
- Mini-game system that makes you earn your power-ups.
- Touch events where the player can maybe guide the egg as they're fending off little spermies or the ability to draw temporary defense lines around the egg during a heavy barrage.
- Particles! As many as we can balance in UDK Mobile without sacrificing framerate.

We had a lot of fun working on this project and we're looking forward to making it even better!

Any and all feedback would be greatly appreciated. Thanks again!

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• Ovarium
• The Battle Within
• sperm game
• UDK Mobile
• mobile games
• ipad games
• top down shooter
• sperm
• brith control pill
• birth control game
• pill
• sperm shooter
• ovarium game

[darkarcangeli]

How did you make your graphic designs? Maya? or what soft? nice work C=D

[UDKoder]

I followed from the udk forums. This is a great idea and well executed.

Hilarious.

[Tubbly123]

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO­OOOOL

[sinz718]

lmfao awesome birthcontrol!

[ShermanTheAlaskanCow]

Cool concept!

[Dudinify]

why dont you just shoot the egg? xD

[darkseren]

This is so great!

[miatribe]

lol thats funny. will be great once you got it finished up

[zawette]

can u add more shader? and can i work whit you as a composer?