MRT-Backrooms Decentraland GameJam

Meta Residence Tower submission for GameJam 2023

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The Meta Residence Tower Backrooms project utilizes several new SDK7 technologies and newly developed systems.

Main Features

• A core concept based on a roguelike game where the player must navigate through rooms to achieve their goals and survive.
• Procedural generation of maze-like levels.
• Random generation of room decorations, furniture, and level rewards.
• Functional enemies equipped with AI and unique abilities.
• Neural network-generated music that creates a surreal, dream-like atmosphere.
• Neural network-generated surroundings to enhance immersion.
• Storytelling through audiotapes that narrate the eerie lore of this dreamlike world.

Game Areas

1. The backrooms of MRT apartments are haunted by ghostly creatures.
2. Classic luminal space backrooms where the room itself tries to hunt the player down.
3. A hellish area inspired by classic horror games where players must utilize all their resources to survive.

Open Source Systems and Content

We have finished and are ready to provide open-source access to the following systems and content:

• Interaction with the Colyseus server.
• DB Interaction.
• UI Example.
• A fog system capable of real-time player tracking without lag, made possible by SDK7.
• Procedural generation of dungeons from basic shapes. This system is versatile and can be used in any project requiring it.
• Maze complexity adaptable to any difficulty level, ranging from a short 4-room tour to a maze of tens of rooms filled with dangers and discoveries.
• Evolving enemy and maze difficulty throughout the game.
• A decal application system alongside procedural generation, capable of applying randomly selected textures to generate unique levels. New ones are easy to add.
• A system for generating doors that block paths on generated levels, including door frames for empty ones.
• Back-end integration of player health control and leaderboard.
• An extended navigation system for AI, coupled with a mapping system to support randomly generated environments.
• AI capabilities to haunt the player, with teleportation and movement speed regulation.
• Audible cues to telegraph enemy actions.
• Health and end-game systems.
• Inventory and item pickup systems.
• A UI system that can support an inventory and health system.
• A universal tooltip system for UI, for both fluff and tutorial purposes. The player is properly notified about what to do and how the mechanics work.
• Support for playing multiple sounds simultaneously from one source.
• A random selector for an ambiance that's tied to procedural generation.

AI Tools Used

• Midjourney - Art
• Stable Diffusion - Art
• Zyro API - Creation of transparent backgrounds for decals
• ElevenLabs - Speech
• OpenAI GPT3.5 - Code annotation and formatting
• OpenAI GPT4 - Assistance in design decisions and code optimization
• MusicGen - Music Generation

Team

The project is developed by a team of four individuals from the MRT Team.

Apache License Version 2.0