Unity Dev Tool

Today I messed around with Unity, aka robot hell.

Unity is a game dev tool that allows you to map out events and models visually, as well as test them.

Let's just move this hallway to the sky.

The sample level that they provide is really a good way to test out initial cause and effect, such as changing the sound effects or moving all enemies into the same place. What I enjoyed the most was that I could test the effects of what I change immediately, by pressing the play button.

After doing this for a few hours, I decided to play the actual game. It puts you in the role of a space marine with infinite ammo, who is attacked by various robots in this facility. The only thing that really bothered me were some of the perspective issues and the fact that filling a computer with bullets unlocks doors. But it's just a game, right?

The camera angle shifts depending on where you aim. Not bad.

It was simple enough and after about ten minutes, I was seemingly approaching the end.

Shoot the robot fiends before they get close to you and explode

Suddenly, everything on the screen went white and I found myself inside of an art gallery.

There is a time and a place for art.

There was nowhere to go but forward.
I stood there face to face with something significant, but what?

What...is that...?

Everything went white again. But this time, I was a spider mine.

What cruel robot god have I angered...

I skittered along the gallery to the main painting once again and everything went white.

What if I was always a spider mine in an art gallery?

Over and over, I was reincarnated into various creatures and characters, doomed to run down the same cute animal gallery, damned to reach the same conclusion. There was nowhere else to go, but to the end of the hall, where my avatar's life suddenly ends and begins again at the other side of the hall. My memory as a space marine rampaging through the halls of the facility slowly drifted away, as if it was merely a dream. Or perhaps there is no reality at all. I wasn't just a space marine, but all the robots at the same time. I was everything and nothing. This wasn't hell, but samsara... Unity has opened my eyes.

Anyway, download Unity. It's interesting.