Project Maze

Newest version: Maze v.0.151.58 - Secret update :)

Project Maze is a first person procedural generated maze game. From each area like maze, dungeon, each room and every item in game, secret passages, doorways, dig areas, maps. It's a work in progress project. I decided to upload it to Itch to get some opinions from other users.

There are now  over 550 fully intractable/destructible/burnable items. Some items have multiple interactions. Please do experiment what can be done in this game. 

On game start player luck and strength is random and between 0 - 1. Strength affects your digging mining swings, running and how fast you get tired (number of sweat droplets and the sound yo make indicate how tired you are). Luck affects number of ore vein their size, number of buried treasures and items you can find while digging or mining .

There are lots of books with game lore/info. Not all are fully completed.

Beware where you leave you torches and other fire sources. Each item made of wood, cloth, paper and other flammable material can be set on fire. You have some time put out the fire before to it to late. Different materials burn at different speed the size of the item also matters. You will hear a sizzling sound when item begins to set itself on fire. Glass items also break if they are touching a burring item.  If they are filled with a fluid they can putout some small fires .

Please Note this fire gif is from older version.

You can now measure items with rulers. Size of the item determines the measuring time.

You gonna need those measurements for crafting ;)

Each room will have a map of all surrounding rooms with dig areas and other thinks marked on them. They should help you move through the maze. You can also draw on them :).

Candles burn down and can be replaced or putout by pouring liquid on it.

For now it's endless game without storyline. You start the game near a temple which holds a hatch  to the maze.  Where your adventure begins.

The maze is endless, each level is a grid of rooms between 3x3 and 7x7. The bigger the maze the greater chance to shrines to spawn in which you will have to do some chores to please the gods.

In the maze you can find locked doors that need a key to open. You can find those keys in different parts of the maze.

In the maze you can find a machine that will show you some maze stats to operate it you will need to insert a coin. You can also find maps in the maze that will tell you where to go to find it.

Please Note those gifs are from older version.

To help You go through the maze You can leave marks on sand patches while having an empty hand. While running you will leave footprints on the sand. You can leave scratch marks on other floors but you have to have an item equipped. With a torch in your hand You can light other light sources by pressing left mouse button.

You can find keys for opening closed doors, locked chests, cages and sheds. Each key has a color that corresponds to a color on a lock. You just have to find a mach.

In the maze you can find places to mine and dig for different resources. For the moment the are 12 ores, 15 items that can be found while digging or destroying stone veins. A dig area can have a treasure buried.  If a treasure is spawned a map to this also will be generated. Note that the X on the map only shows the entrance to the dig area not the position of the treasure. The map will show how many buried items can be found in the dig area. The treasure chests are empty at the moment. There are 9 chest, 6 creates and one barrel to dig out. To dig or mine just press and hold "LMB" the longer you hold the bigger hole you will make. Each tool has a dig radius. Your tiredness affects your mining/digging speed.

For now you start the game with a random Pickaxe  and a random Shovel in the maze you can find better tools that make digging or mining faster. There are other tools to be found like crowbar, hammer,  axe, broom, saw, rake, watering can, nails, hooks and a lighter.

Tools can be made out these metals :

 The better the tool the more and faster you can excavate. You can excavate any ore with any tool made of any metal but it will get damaged faster and you will dig out smaller amounts.

There is a book in the game with ore information.

Tools can be repaired with a hammer. Hammer will repair the tool faster if it's placed on an anvil. 

Hammers, pickaxes, shovels, axes and crowbars have durability and can be repaired. Hammer and pickaxe have both sides usable, when one breaks just switch the side.

Every item container (chest, create) and Your inventory are physic based, so there are no slots. The amount you can carry is determined by your 3d Tetris skills:). 

As for now there are over 350 items that are fully interactive. 

Any fluid container can be filled with a fluid and build now can be mixed. There are lamps that have a fuel container and can be refueled (with flammable fluid, there are 7 different fluids ).

Every glass item can be broken. And most furniture made of wood can be cut with a axe. Knifes can cut foods and cloth items.

You can draw on maps,  paper, hanging signs, room maps and paintings. You will need a feather and an ink bottle. You can roll pieces of paper (maps) into scrolls. You no longer have to hold the item that you want to draw at, it needs to be in your "drawing range".

Some Items have two uses, for example:

While holding any light source item and pressing RMB with opposite hand selected  will put the light off,.To turn on a light you will need a lighter or another burning light.

or,

While holding a flask with a cork, You can toggle the cork with the other hand by pressing RMB

In the maze You can find Toilets that are Teleports to get out of the maze. Going back from the maze is free and will bring You back near the temple. But if You want to go back to the teleport that You used in the Maze You have to have a toilet paper in your hand and use the outhouse near the temple. Different colors of toilet paper will teleport You to different parts of the maze. 

Some walls can be destroyed with a pickaxe.

In the game You can interact with almost every item. With an empty hand you can move and drag items. 

You also have a belt but for now You cannot equip anything to it. There are 4 items assigned by default. A pickaxe for mining ores and stone veins. Shovel for digging in the dirt. Torch for a light source and one candle that can be placed while digging in a dark place :).

If you get too tired your moves will become slower and slower. The tiredness is indicated buy the volume of your breaths and the amount of sweat droplets running down your forehead. To rest press "R" the better the bed and mattress and the more pillows the faster you will recover. 

The color of the crosshair indicates what can You do with an item. Brown is digging, grey and light blue is mining, yellow is writing on sand, green is interaction. Dark blue means yo can move and drag object. And few other indicating different hand actions like grabbing placing.

CONTROLS

New controls from v.0.123.5 +

GRAB - takes selected item and places it in selected hand, this button is unavailable is an item is in hand

PICKUP - take selected item an places it in the inventory, this button is unavailable is an item is in hand

EQUIPT - toggles belt items

CLEAR - clears selected hand, if an item is in hand it will be put back to the inventory or the belt, it also cancels hand action like grab and pickup

THROW - throws currently equipped item. Press and hold (max 3 seconds) LMB to throw item. RMB cancels action

PLACE - place currently held item on the ground. RMB cancels action