Original story and dialogue
A script written for the game, with cutscenes built into the engine rather than videos stuck on top.
PC game · Unity
Alan’s Moira
Earth has gone silent. Mars is the last living human colony, and its base has just lost its defences.
A playable prototype of a narrative shooter set in 2056. Find out how far Alan goes when there is nowhere left to return to.
- Playable prototype
- Narrative shooter
- Single player
- PC
- Free
- Unity · C#
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Development context
A new engine, a short deadline and a finished product.
The project started with no prior experience in game development or in Unity. Three months later, working part time, there was a downloadable, playable product: script and dialogue, modelling, animation, cutscenes, enemy AI, interface and soundtrack, all produced in house.
We include it because it describes a common situation in any commission: a requirement appears that has not been solved before, the delivery date does not move and the client expects something that works. The ability to absorb new technology without compromising the deadline is, in practice, what separates one supplier from another.
This project was completed starting from zero. With familiar ground, the margin for improvement is obvious.
3Months, part time
1Person on the team
0Prior Unity knowledge
100%Built from scratch
What this means for your project. A video game forces you to solve performance, physics, animation, narrative and artificial intelligence at the same time and against a deadline. Next to that, a management app or a desktop tool is far more predictable ground.
The story
Moira, in Greek, means fate.
The year is 2056. Earth is in decline and the space race has allowed humanity to build a primitive base on Mars, with the mission of transforming the planet and preparing it for large-scale colonisation.
Everything collapses when an alien race attacks Earth without warning. Alan, our young protagonist, escapes on the brink of death. Another ship intercepts him, but he manages to flee to Mars in an escape pod.
His fate —his moira— begins the moment the pod touches the red dust.
GenreThird-person narrative shooter
SettingMars, year 2056
ModeSingle player
PlatformPC
EngineUnity · C#
PriceFree
What you will find
What is inside the prototype.
Enemies with judgement
AI with detection, pursuit and combat states, tuned so it feels neither trivial nor unfair.
A believable Mars
Modelling, textures and lighting created from scratch to give the red planet a hostile, lonely feel.
Atmosphere and silence
Silence plays too. The soundtrack and effects follow the tension instead of covering it.
2056
The red planet is holding. For now. The download is free and asks for no sign-up.