House Of Wolves by albertelwin

made by albertelwin for LD27 (COMPO)

House Of Wolves was an experiment of mine to see if it was possible to create a game rendered using ray tracing techniques. It's built on top of NativeClient/OpenGLES so must be installed on Chrome to play. Takes a bit of time for the shaders to compile when you first load it up.

In the game you must pass through a gate within at least 10 seconds otherwise you will lose.

Warning: Graphically Intensive!!

Tested On: AMD Radeon 7970, Nvidia GTX 560 Ti, Intel HD Graphics 4000

Chrome Install	https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/house-of-wolves/hcopginengieekghlonpnpnpamkolbkk?hl=en&gl=GB
Source	https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/12591019/ld27_source.zip
Original URL	https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview&uid=12231

Ratings

Coolness	100%	1
Overall	2.55	1003

Audio	1.32	960
Fun	2.00	1111
Graphics	3.57	193
Humor	1.55	924
Innovation	2.57	847
Mood	2.12	964
Theme	2.23	1114

Feedback

tower07

26. Aug 2013 · 03:56 UTC

It won't run. When it says "Click to start", nothing happens.

🎤 albertelwin

26. Aug 2013 · 03:58 UTC

doesn't work on some graphics card, but takes a minute or two to load up anyway :)

NorthernCrux

26. Aug 2013 · 03:59 UTC

Neat game. Reminds me of playing Star Fox and a bit of Battletoads.

🎤 albertelwin

26. Aug 2013 · 04:01 UTC

thanks was inspired by Star Fox, had a much more complete game in mind when I started out but had some set backs :( there's always next time!

Baknik

26. Aug 2013 · 04:09 UTC

Loved the ground animation.

Parappa

26. Aug 2013 · 04:10 UTC

Definitely like Star Fox training mode. :)

Andrio

26. Aug 2013 · 04:12 UTC

I like the crazy optical illusion the ground makes when you're speeding really fast. Looks nice, although it's a really basic concept. I wanted a bit more of a challenge.

bonsairobo

26. Aug 2013 · 04:12 UTC

I get that there's a missing plugin. Not sure what it is (x-nacl?).

26. Aug 2013 · 04:13 UTC

Very nice looking!

🎤 albertelwin

26. Aug 2013 · 04:16 UTC

x-nacl is Native Client, it's built into Chrome so not sure why it's saying it's missing :( Windows/OSX/Linux?

otresnjak

26. Aug 2013 · 04:44 UTC

Looks really nice.

wbobeirne

26. Aug 2013 · 05:04 UTC

Great looking game, but definitely more tech demo than game.

archaeometrician

26. Aug 2013 · 05:05 UTC

Took few seconds to load, remind me of Star Fox too ! Nice idea to use the NativeClient/OpenGLES.

lordjosephdeburg

26. Aug 2013 · 15:34 UTC

When I 'click to start' mouse disappears but game wont run

shohs

26. Aug 2013 · 17:31 UTC

This looks interesting. It doesn't run very well on my computer, but my computer doesn't have a lot of graphics power. The game itself is pretty simple, but not too bad.

SmudgedCat

26. Aug 2013 · 17:55 UTC

It ran quite slowly on my PC but it does look quite pretty.

skywing

26. Aug 2013 · 20:31 UTC

Very nice aesthetic, it can get pretty trippy at times. Decent game overall.

ShadowFire3800

27. Aug 2013 · 02:22 UTC

I would suggest to fix the lag and have faster movement.

Liz England

27. Aug 2013 · 02:26 UTC

Nifty - I really start losing perspective of how fast I'm going after a while, but I like the effect. Shaders are like black magic to me - I have no understanding of how they work, just that they do cool things.

🎤 albertelwin

27. Aug 2013 · 02:29 UTC

Only possible way to fix the lag is to buy a better graphics card I'm afraid :(

Skye

27. Aug 2013 · 04:08 UTC

This game was a pretty neat idea. This version definitely needs some work but if you work on this for a larger project, I can see this having a lot of potential.

🎤 albertelwin

27. Aug 2013 · 04:11 UTC

Thanks :) With such a short amount of time I had to make a lot of trade-offs with the gameplay, hopefully I'll get to come back to it sometime and make something more complete!

designatius

27. Aug 2013 · 23:04 UTC

Just to give you feedback, it worked super slow on my Mac (it could be probably my computer, but just in case...). Anyway love the Starwing kind of game and it looks really promising. Good entry!

DesignerNap

28. Aug 2013 · 18:01 UTC

Nice entry and I have to say, my first google chrome game ever! :) nice work

Obscuremoon

29. Aug 2013 · 15:35 UTC

Didn't realise I was playing at the start, but I soon figured it out :)

I loved the way the ground blocks changed to black when you die :) very nice

Ciaran54

29. Aug 2013 · 15:38 UTC

I really really liked the graphics. the pulsating ground, and the shadows and changing colour really made the game come alive :D But the gameplay was a bit bland imo, I found the ship moved so slowly it was difficult to hit or avoid gates by choice :/

aldian

29. Aug 2013 · 16:24 UTC

Its a very cool concept, graphics are nice and i had a good 5 minutes playing thsi :D

GSM Productions

29. Aug 2013 · 16:26 UTC

Nice and trippy, but more of a technical feat than a really engaging game in my opinion. The visuals were pretty neat though, and innovative rendering technique!

berkano

29. Aug 2013 · 17:09 UTC

Nice idea. Impressed with the delivery as a Chrom app :-)

soerensen3

29. Aug 2013 · 17:23 UTC

"I get that there's a missing plugin. Not sure what it is (x-nacl?)."

I get the same error. I use comodo which is a special version of chrome. I'm on windows 7.

HunLyxxod

29. Aug 2013 · 17:27 UTC

Inspired by Iñigo Quilez?
Beautiful work, there are some artifacts but your renderer it's impressive nonetheless.

🎤 albertelwin

29. Aug 2013 · 17:28 UTC

Ahh, I assume comodo doesn't have Native Client, try installing a normal version of Chrome and it should work :)

🎤 albertelwin

29. Aug 2013 · 17:29 UTC

Sure is! He pioneered the ray marching technique which I'm using for my renderer :)

Lokarunith

30. Aug 2013 · 00:17 UTC

The animation is very well done and runs very smoothly but there is not much gameplay.

kirbytails7

07. Sep 2013 · 06:06 UTC

My graphics card can't quite keep up. It looks pretty cool, though.

myachin

13. Sep 2013 · 05:21 UTC

cant start((