Fling For Freedom

Fling For Freedom chronicles your journey as a droid as it navigates a treacherous spaceship where the gravity systems have been disabled. As a droid you were a lowly cleaning bot, but thanks to your grabbing claw you are capable of navigating through the Zero G environment, through applying great force to walls, or throwing the junk you find lying around to give yourself momentum. 

Thanks to space-faring society's need for excellent cleaning robots, the path finding AI on your droid has been iterated upon so much that it can predict the future with 89.75871% accuracy! Simulate endless paths, experience endless simulated destruction, and rewind the simulation until a perfect path forward is found. Other droids wish they had this much processing power!

Features

• Zero Gravity Navigation - Bounce off walls, throw everything you can get your claw on, all from a top-down view.
• Time Manipulation (Through Simulation) - Since every level is a simulation calculated by the droid, you can essentially move forward, backward, and stop time in order to navigate the environment without a scratch.
• Limited Simulation Time - While a powerful tool, the droid can only accurately predict so far into the future before running out of processing power. As a result, a room must be navigated in the simulation before that happens.
• Puzzle Game-play - Space society has a weird sense of aesthetics, so it can be a challenge to navigate some rooms, especially without gravity. However, the rooms are open enough that there is often more than one to get from point A to point B.
• Hazards - As a cleaning droid, you are incredibly fragile. As such, it is imperative to avoid the various traps and wayward security drones.
• Directional Vector - The droid can also calculate how momentum is affecting it and visualize that as a green arrow. Which is handy, since combinations of different forces can result in interesting direction vectors.
• Original Music - Enjoy the soundtrack of a whole TWO songs, custom made for this game.
• Original Art - Also enjoy the custom made pixel art style all made in house.

Controls

The game supports keyboard and mouse input in addition to a gamepad.

These are the controls screens that are present in the game. Many have considered the controls to be a bit challenging to get a hang of at first, so it may be fortuitous to familiarize yourself with it ahead of time, or to spend time in our first level getting used to the feel of the game. Also, while in the main menu you can press 'select' on the controller  or 'u' on  the keyboard to unlock all levels immediately.

Credits

This game was made as a semester long student project at Texas A&M University under the supervision of Dr. Sueda.

Programmers:

• Kishan Patel
• Durian Nguyen
• Adam Marek
• David Lin

Artist:

• Adam Marek

Music and Sound Designer:

• Durian Nguyen

Guest Composer:

• Jeremy Smith

Sound Effect Sources:

•   Pneumatic grease bomb by prnkys 
•   Wooden Thud (Mono) by Breviceps  
•   Door Opening.wav by pointparkcinema    
•   buttonchime02up.wav by JustinBW  
•   SFX UI Button Click by suntemple  
•   Sci fi door by peepholecircus  
•   Stick Hitting a Dreadlock (Small thud) by Rudmer_Rotteveel  
•   button.wav by testing_player  
•   Door, Wooden, Close, A (H6 MS).wav by InspectorJ  
•   ELECTRIC_ZAP_001.wav by JoelAudio  
•   BalonBasketball_Sound_WET.wav by ThemaggotR  
•   RETRO_LASER_SHOT_02.wav by MATTIX  
•   Bubble by iFrosta  
•   Boom Bang by bareform 
•   AR15 pistol shot by michorvath 

Many sounds were modified to fit better into the game, so the sounds heard in game are not necessarily the ones that were originally utilized.

Under these licenses:

• Attribution Non-commercial
• Attribution
• Public Domain