By
@__grdev
Beyond the Quarks is a 2D game made in Unity. It's a multiverse survival adventure: fix your wormhole device piece by piece, hopping across alien realities until you can finally return home.
23m 45s logged
Fixed the deselect on background click in all the scenes.
I built this sci-fi-themed video game from scratch. The story is about an astronaut who makes the first interdimensional journey thanks to Q.U.A.R.K., a device created by NASA to generate wormholes. However, the device malfunctions, and the player finds himself lost in the multiverse. The player must explore different universes to find parts to repair the Q.U.A.R.K. and return home.
The game is still in its early stages of development. The demo only includes the first playable scene, the lab, but much of the foundation for the rest of the gameplay is already in place.
The pixel art assets were almost entirely created from scratch by me. Only a few of the images in the first sequence were generated by AI and then edited and adjusted by hand. While the game may be very short at the moment, I hope the attention to detail stands out, such as the dialogue, sprites, and the logic of certain elements, such as the camera that changes its behavior (first fixed on the screen and then dynamically following the player).
20m 57s logged
Updated the README and published on itch.io!
49m 7s logged
I’ve added a “Coming Soon” scene after the finish of the first scene. I’ve also added an automatic saving system for when it change scene.
1h 11m 7s logged
Finally finished a working saving system! It saves the position of the player, the inventory, the scene and the current room!
31m 20s logged
Made the graphics for the delete items.
1h 32m 34s logged
Finished the logic and the graphics of the inventory. Added some items in the laboratory that the player can pick up. Created some special dialogues with some NPCs that depends on the items that the player has in the inventory.
1h 45m 9s logged
Finished a first full-working version of the inventory. (the column in the video is just a test item)
26m 49s logged
Finished a first simple version of the pause menu, with inventory, QUARK status, Save and Quit buttons.
1h 39m 26s logged
Started working on a simple pause menu. Started integrating a better saving system, that should allow the player to save in almost any moment and resume from it.
1h 21m logged
Added images and text for the first dimensional leap sequence.
1h 1m 24s logged
Finally finished a first version of the tutorial scene. I’ve added the sound effects and prepared everything to start working on the first multiverse.
1h 59m 27s logged
Added an animation for the moment when you step on the stage, with a speech from the head of the Q.U.A.R.K. project. Added an animation when you take the Q.U.A.R.K. and the animated portal that you can open with it. I drew all the sprites.
52m 24s logged
Added some really important people in the stage room. Each person have a dialogue, and the NASA Administrator has 4 dialogues.
38m 12s logged
Added the QUARK, with the pickup animation.
54m 4s logged
Drawn 2 more sprites for the scientists. Added some electronic components in the engineers room. Added unique dialogues with the NPCs.
1h 49m 47s logged
Made the dialogs with the NPC!
56m 25s logged
Added some scientists in the first room!
1h 22m 40s logged
Started working on the sprites for the tutorial rooms!
1h 19m 2s logged
Created the backgrounds for the tutorial rooms
2h 29m 18s logged
Started working on the rooms. Created three empty rooms (that will be the three rooms of the tutorial), two with static camera, and one (that’s bigger) with the free camera. Made the room transition animation (It’s been quite difficult, I had to fix a lot of bugs!).
1h 14m 3s logged
Updated the Unity version to the modern 6000.5.1f1 and fixed all the related bugs. Added a typing sound effect for the story scene (unluckily you can’t hear it in the video).
1h 9m 55s logged
Drawn the player sprites! (1st simple version)
53m 37s logged
Made the story’s slides for the new games.
46m 21s logged
Finished the title screen!
52m 25s logged
Writed the Save logic.
55m 20s logged
Added the buttons in the title screen
2h 29m 5s logged
Made the README file. Started working on the title scene.
