Going Home

Choose your character for a mini adventure 
& play a story in the coming War for Mars. 

Built for overhead 3'rd-person action, 
with a player-view whenever you want it,
featuring beautiful music, simple gameplay,
machine guns, grenades, fireballs, lightning, force fields, poison gas, giant laser-eyed spider robots... 😏🤨 it doesn't get better than this.  

Then again, maybe it will. This game is complete, for now, but the story could continue.   

Produced in Unreal Engine 4.27 by Stephen Montague, this game includes the work of modeling, sound, & VFX artists, gathered from the darkest depths of the world (or places like Unreal Marketplace, Fiverr, and Freesound.org), carefully crafting hundreds of sounds and animations for a classic-style science fiction. I hope the story, music, & action here can take you to another world.

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Intel Report 

(Proceed directly to mission via Download link.)

Jumper: species' female is larger and more powerful, as customary among spiders, while males are more numerous. Beware: your shields protect from light attacks, but much less from heavy hits.  

Blue Spider: nocturnal fire-breather who prefers to keep distant but can deal plenty of pain up close.

Sneaker: ghostly creature, blended matter & energy.
Cautious & defensive, but can attack quickly.
May work in groups to trap prey.  

Sand Monster: this territorial tunnel spider seems adapted or even immune to conventional weapons & guards its abode viciously.

Energy web spun by a spider queen mirage in order to trap an ambushed prey.

Spider Robot: elite royal guardian, solves problems for Queen and Hive alone. 

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Special thanks to Stephen Ulibarri (for the DruidMechanics community & tutorials),
Robert Baker (the UK CodeMonkey, Principal Programmer of Grip who taught much survival knowledge here), and certainly to Gavin Milroy (TeslaDev who inspired much with the Mars Marine tutorial) on platforms like Udemy, GameDev.tv, & YouTube, as well as to countless others in forums, blogs, and videos who so generously share coding experience. 

I own the mistakes, the bug enemy.

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MUSIC
Attila Ádám
Adamatys Music

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In the lab with Dr. Quin & the Robot, a breakthrough in spider-fighting biotech.

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Freesound.org 
Artists' User Names by SFX Subject
All sounds Creative Commons 4 and below,
Edited for story. 

CUPPA TEA 
  Ame : "AmeAngelofSin" : Voice Artist
  Felix Moen : "Cookies+Policy" : Voice Artist
  rossbell
  rico-casazza
  soundmary

WELCOME TO MARS
  arithni
  cosmicembers
  dwoboyle
  dystronaya
  matrixxx
  matt-g

PATROL RADIO VOICES
  Josh Polito : jpolito : Voice Artist  

SPIDER GROWLS
  columbia23
  cthulhu
  cylon8472 
  thegoose09

FOOTSTEPS : ROCK & SNOW
  littlerobotsoundfactory

FORCE FIELDS & LIGHTNING
  bigkahuna360
  eevan
  fxkid2
  michael_grinnell
  studiomandrogore
  unfa

WEAPONS & IMPACT
  cedarstudios
  dasdeer
  magnuswaker
  matt-g
  qubodup 
  sorinious-genious
  timgormly

FIRE & EXPLOSIONS
  bspiller5
  cosmicembers
  magnuswaker
  opsaaaaa
  qubodup
  quedicemipez
  uagadugu
  zimbot

RECON RIFLE
  SuperPhat

ROBOT ALARMS
  danielnieto7
  fl1ppy
  guitarguy1985

ROBOT STEPS  
  pgi

ROBOT WHIRRING
  dwoboyle
  johandeecke
  kwahmah

COME BACK ALIVE
  ladyimperatrix : Voice Artist

ANYTHING YOU WANT
  abolla
  aesqe
  ameangelofsin : Voice Artist

ONE MORE BREATH 
  kodack

SAND MONSTER
  indigocat
  ztrees1

SPEED BOOST
  thehorriblejoke

SPIDER ROBOT LASERS
  bubaproducer

SPIDER ROBOT WALKING
  visualasylum

DR QUIN & THE ROBOT
  carmsie : Voice Artist

HATE SPIDERS
   ameangelofsin  : Voice Artist
   lizanejordaan
   pogotron
   zoragr

WELCOME BACK 
    Ame : "AmeAngelofSin" : Voice Artist
    Felix Moen : "Cookies+Policy" : Voice Artist
    amholma
    benboncan

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Professional Voice Acting
Special thanks to the artists on Fiverr

MARINE SSGT BARKER
  Thomas Barker - tuomasbarker

RECON MARINE  
  Rebecca - rebwilks

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Sound Design : Selected, Edited & Mixed
via Audacity, by myself 

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Built with Unreal Engine 4.27 
Thanks to the legion at Epic Games!

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Game Tips

Your force shield is not absolute invincibility:
it takes damage, pushes things, protects life,
and with an upgrade, can shock enemies.

There's a couple of extra bits in the credits. 

Beware of Blue Spiders & Sand Monsters,
whether playing the game or not.