After college I began working on a small 2D top-down Unity game for mobile devices as a passion project. As the project grew, and the passion with it, I transferred over to a full-on 3D first-person project, still of the same concept and name, Not Alone. Now, over 5 years later, the project has grown into a full fledged game, focusing on advanced AI behaviors and interaction, base-building and crafting, and survival mechanics. Take a look below–more details are coming soon.
Not Alone
UNDER DEVELOPMENT
Not Alone is a survival simulation game that introduces complex AI as an essential part of the survival process. Advanced characteristics and traits make each person unique, with their own set of objectives: good, bad, or both.
The player will rely on interacting with these diverse characters in order to learn new skills, upgrade equipment and buildings, and create common bonds in order to lead communities with honesty and fairness…or as a totalitarian dictator hell bent on conquering–it’s really up to you.
Overview
Not Alone begins with the collapse of a once great civilization. As it’s residents pour out into the surrounding lands, it is up to you to reassemble it’s finest folk and take back and rebuild the city, now ravaged by plague, corruption, and barbarian forces. You won’t be able to do it alone however, and must rely on building a community of all types of people to get the job done. After all, it takes a village.
To take back a city, you will need warriors, naturally. And to feed them? Bakers and farmers, and hunters for meat and fur. Now we need carpenters and engineers to construct barracks and housing, and a priest, or perhaps an Inn Keep for moral…
Features
Base Building
Build entirely custom structures from the various resources at your disposal. Whether it’s a house, farm, temple, tower, workshop, or anything else, it probably has a purpose for your town…or you just like watching your citizens work.
Crafting & Upgrades
Pick up loose items from around the world to craft tools and let the real fun begin. Upgrade tools and skills to unlock new items, perks, and technological advancements.
Community Building
Meet and recruit citizens to your community. Each AI has a randomly generated set of traits and skills that may prove useful–or may cause upheaval in your community. Make sure to keep an eye on who you let in.
Simulated AI Behavior
An advanced combination of traits and attributes cause each AI to have their own set of wants, needs, skills, and overall personality. If you’re going to get what you want, you will have to learn to get along with all types of people, or manipulate your way to the top.
Basic Survival
You know the drill. Make sure your hunger, thirst, energy, and other traits don’t drop too low, otherwise you won’t make it very long. Oh, and don’t forget to use the bathroom every once in a while. Gather resources, farm, hunt, and domesticate animals.
Digging & Caves
Manipulate the terrain to your liking. Beyond flattening or terracing land for farming, control waterways and dig caves to cut through mountains. Next to building mines and quarries, caves are the best place to get stone and other minerals.