Description:

Ancient Core is a short, first-person platform run-and-gun game where you play as a traveling interstellar engineer for the SSF Marathon ship that is on its way to a nearby colony planet, AN-77. After your ship deviates from its course and suffers major power outages from a wormhole, you take a drop pod and crash-land alone in the ruins of an abandoned planet to retrieve a power source to restore the ship’s power and return on course. Mysterious sentient rock guardians, disturbed by the crash landing, stand in your way to prevent you from completing your mission. Thankfully, your nano multitool bangle, MIMIC MK.3, can scan objects to alter its composition to mimic them with weak molecular integrity.

Will you be able to fend for yourself and make it out alive with the Ancient Core?

Gameplay duration: 10- 15 mins

Known Bugs:

• Damage Indicator can be funky
• Enemies can get stuck on walls if you are not near them
• Durability is currently broken

Controls:

Movement- WASD

Jump- Spacebar

Dash- Shift

Shoot- Left Mouse Click

Interact/Pickup- F 

Switch Weapon- E

About Us:

Ancient Core is a game developed by Population Zero Studio, a 12-person studio team of juniors studying in the Game Studio of Champlain College. This game is a semester-long project for the Game Studio II class. Our name is based on the fact that we do not have a Character Artist to create personas and characters, hence the name Population Zero.

Credits:

Producer:
Olivier Lorin, Scrum Producer | LinkedIn

Designers:
Dylan Wilcox, Lead Designer & Level Designer | LinkedIn
Isaac Roy, Movement Designer | LinkedIn
Fable Spagat, UI Designer & Product Owner | LinkedIn
Maxwell Siegman, Combat Designer | LinkedIn
Robert Hicks, Faux-grammer & Enemey Designer | LinkedIn

Artists:
Coleman FitzGerald, Lead Artist & VFX Artist | LinkedIn
Jason Richter, Environmental Artist & Animator | LinkedIn
Heirloom Luong, Weapon Artist | LinkedIn
Willow Campbell, General Artist | LinkedIn

Programmers:
Dawson Jackson, Lead Programmer & Repository Master | LinkedIn

Sound Designer:
Curtis Rutherford, Sound Designer |