Way back when Rimworld came out with programmer art, I thought I’d try making my own Rimworld clone but with higher fidelity characters and an overall larger “scale” to the game. [1] This was years ago and all I have are the sprites I drew up and some old design docs, though re-reading them now, they feel too specific. H.O.T.D.
The idea’s fairly simple: make an arena shooter where each map has elements that accept “sound” events, which we grab from MIDI files. I wanted to synchronise lighting to sound, and thought the idea of a map being in near total darkness at times was cool, so I made the entire first map out of a shiny black material, lined
Moving on from Pulse, I made a singleplayer experience with similar mechanics. Deep Pulse took place at the mouth of a bloody deep hole, in the 1600’s. Essentially, an O’Neill cylinder embedded itself in the earth and Renaissance era humanity found it. The game world was synchronised to a dynamic set of songs I composed to play in the background,