Mechanically Challenged is a monthly challenge hosted by MooNiZZ and Captain Coder's Academy in which members of the community recreate different mechanics found in games! The goal is to create a library of references and examples for these mechanics in as many different engines and languages as possible.
For past and future challenges, check out MechanicallyChallenged.org
This months mechanic is Portals!
17 years ago Valve released Portal, a mind-blowing game for its time. Today, many consider it to be a classic that that holds up very well today. The main mechanic in the game is Portals! You can place 2 different portals anywhere and when you enter one of them you come out through the other, keeping your momentum and your rotation is changed based on the portals rotation!
The challenge for this month is to recreate the physics behavior of portals in a 2D or 3D environment. Optional bonus points if you can recreate the visual and placement behaviors.
- Be able to go through a portal and come out through the other portal, both ways.
- Keep the momentum when you go through the portals
- Rotate the player and objects that travel through the portals based on the orientation of the portals.
- The visuals! When you look at a portal it would be great to see through it!
- Be able to place portals as a player
Entries submitted before July 1st 2024 will be eligible for an Educational Mechanic prize!
Two $50 Educational Mechanic prizes will be awarded: one by Captain Coder and one by MooNiZZ. The selection process is at the sole discretion of the judge. The judges will be looking for clean implementations that can be utilized by new developers to implement the mechanic.
Note: Only one entry per person is eligible to win.
Eligibility Information: LINK
- Implement a solution using any language / engine / tools you would like!
- Create a fork of this repository
- Within your fork, create a folder that follows the following structure:
{EngineName}/{LanguageName}/{UserName}
For example, if I were using Godot 3 using C# and my username was The Captain Coder, I would create a folder called Godot3/CSharp/TheCaptainCoder.
- Add a minimal version of your solution to that folder. This is typically an importable package that contains the necessary source code, assets, and demo scene(s).
- Add a README.md to your folder that explains how to utilize your solution (e.g. how to import and see the demo)
- Create a Pull Request with your solution
- We may ask you to make minor modifications to your folder names during the PR process
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- Profit!
Note: All submissions will be available under the MIT License LINK
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