A downloadable game for Windows

Created solo for Beginners Circle Jam #3.  The theme was "A Different Planet".  This is my first game working with Unreal Engine 4.

First Rock from the Sun is a 2.5D platformer where you avoid the sun's rays in order to gather ingredients to make tacos.  Roll, Jump, and hide your way to your friends house so you can bring Taco Tuesday to Mercury.


STORY

Humanity has moved to Mercury and figured out all the difficulties that come with it except for what to do about the powerful sun.  You play Johnny, who wants to bring the tradition of Taco Tuesday to Mercury, but he lacks the ingredients.  Luckily Johnny has friends who are willing to help him out.  So Johnny hops in his MATV (Mercury All-Terrain Vehicle) and heads out to his friend's houses to gather ingredients.  But to get there he'll need to traverse the unfinished scaffolding and avoid the constant solar flares.


CONTROLS / GAMEPLAY

Find cover behind houses, shield walls, and other objects to stay out out of the sunlight during a solar flare to avoid losing HP.

SpacebarJump / Wall-jumpWall-jump while airborne and touching a wall
A/DMove Left/RightCan move while grounded or airborne
MOpen your TO-DO List


CREDITS

All sounds are from https://freesound.org/.  Most of the textures were downloaded from https://www.textures.com/ OR are from the Unreal Starter Content.  Other than that everything else was created solo by me.

Download

Download
FirstRockFromTheSun.zip 347 MB

Install instructions

Unzip the file and run the .exe to get started.

Development log

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