SONAR second demo
Oct 5, 2011 Demo 6 commentsThe second demo of SONAR, containing 2 Levels and nearly every single gameplay element.
SONAR
Nerdy Bird | Released Oct 29, 2011
"You are Catherine Dubont.
The Laser Drill opened a cavern 10 miles beyond the surface of the earth.
They installed an elevator which you and some others took to go down all the way into the world of the unknown.
As you almost reached the bottom of the drill hole, the elevator rope broke and the cabin dropped down the last 100 feet.
Everyone is dead. All lights are gone.
The only thing you have left is your modern sonar scanner."
The Laser Drill opened a cavern 10 miles beyond the surface of the earth.
They installed an elevator which you and some others took to go down all the way into the world of the unknown.
As you almost reached the bottom of the drill hole, the elevator rope broke and the cabin dropped down the last 100 feet.
Everyone is dead. All lights are gone.
The only thing you have left is your modern sonar scanner."
"SONAR" is an exploring-/horror-game with a minimum of graphics and a focus on sound-design instead. Though Catherine can't see anything, the player has to use the Sonar-O-Matic 3000, a futuristic sonar device with which she can scan her surroundings. Stuck in the dark, with no hope for rescue, Catherine has to encounter that she is not alone down here...
The game is entirely written in C# with XNA 3.0, using original graphics and music. Most of the soundeffects were found at www.freesound.org.
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Latest News: SONAR+ is dead!! Long live CLARK!
1 comment by JimSlade on Apr 17th, 2013
I really had fun programming on the Unity powered version of SONAR. I learned something about Unity, improved my coding skills and learned what a mess the code of SONAR really is ;) But to be honest, since the last post here on indiedb I never touched it again. The first reason was that I had to implement a workaround for the loading and saving of the levels which was easy in XNA but came out to be difficult using Unity. So I started to procrastinate...
But that's not the whole story. As I indicated earlier I have a fulltime job now which is really time consuming and lets little room to follow my hobbies. The job is great, though! I'm working at one of europe's most influencial animation studios and write concepts and treatments for children series now which is a lot of fun. Also, me and some others were building up this companies' game department (sounds big, but it's still indie, trust me). Those others are the guys from Golden Tricycle. Together with them I finally could do my hobby a profession and now work on a game for real money - not the few bucks, SONAR made - seriously: thanks for everybody who contributed and gave feedback!!
So, SONAR is (quite) dead right now, but the other project CLARK, Matthias, Felix, Maria, Hernan, Marco, Jonathan and Ella (and some other guys) are working on is hot and alive as hell! Maybe you stumbled over it while surfing on indiedb, for those who don't, here is a nice ingame video of that thing:
I am responsible for the whole narration and some additional programming. It's a nice team, a nice location and we have a lot of fun.
I'm not on this photo because I'm too ugly. That's also why I have to use Robocop as my avatar... :(
P.S.: I am putting together a selfmade 2D engine in Monogame in my freetime. There is some code of SONAR in there. So SONAR's DNA is still around. It heart still pumps... maybe it gets a second chance...
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this looks kinda stupid...
If you're gonna criticize, try to at least make a point.
Is there a way to get more oxygen, or do I have to hurry up and finish the game before I run out of it?
I am wondering that too, but given that the oxygen bar at the start of the game is quite low and that it took me half of it to finish the first level I think that there should be some way of replenishing the supply later in game.
Correction - in the demo you start out with a low supply of oxygen, in the full game the bar is full at the beginning, so scrap my previous comment.
Played the demo (the link is in the forum) and I am so buying this after my payday ;-). Part logic game, part survival horror - awesome combination.
Just got past the second level. So far I'm loving it! This is really looking like the clever kind of game I was hoping for when I bought it. The audio design is simply incredible. Everything you hear has a meaning.
Ummmm... the transaction hasn't gone through... its been ten hours... damn!
Urm, what exactly are the system requirements for this game? I know it seems silly because the game does not look very graphics heavy at all, but my graphics card is very old, it doesn't even support pixel shader 1.
Anyways, I bought the game and now I can't start it. Any help would be appreciated.
Uh, that's one old graphics card. Actually you need a card with
Pixel Shader Model 2.0 and Vertex Shader Model 1.1
The reason for this is the Bloom Shader which provides that shiny look.