lab toad

WASD, Shift, Space,   R (restart level), Tilda (skip cutscene, shows overlay)

you play as a toad in on going learning experiments across 13 levels. 

(tip)levels 5->9 have the same map as 0->4

*warning* cut scenes use live action footage of toads test subjects  (nothing graphic)

*warning* after level 5, i use an optical illusion shader (nothing flashes, just hard on eyes), you can toggle it by pressing 'B' (but i would consider that cheating, the difficulty in seeing is part of the challenge )

i have never created a game before, never used shaders or a game engine or anything 3D.

the cut scenes are clips with very little to no editing, they are rearranged to change the context giving my game its story. I randomly found this German online library with science videos from the 80's; I stubled across the toad videos whilst trying to learn how to use shaders. I've watched probably 20 hours of videos (im not  german )  https://av.tib.eu/

(bug) I used text meshes for most models because i don't know how to model, but the web didn't like unicode, so i had to swap them last minute, so things that are not boxes are a bit janky 

(bug)(i think i fixed them all) for some reason a couple meshes have all XYZ scale negative, which are normal in every way except when you touch them movement freezes 

*****credits**** (footage for cut scenes (contains spoilers))

Ewert, Jörg-Peter: Image Processing in the Visual System of the Common Toad - Behaviour, Brain Function, Artificial Neuronal Net. IWF (Göttingen), 1993. https://doi.org/10.3203/IWF/C-1805eng

Ewert, Jörg-Peter: Gestalt Perception in the Common Toad - 3. Neuroethological Analysis of Prey Recognition. IWF (Göttingen), 1982. https://doi.org/10.3203/IWF/C-1432eng

Ewert, Jörg-Peter: Gestalt Perception in the Common Toad - 2. Modification of Prey Recognition by Learning. IWF (Göttingen), 1982. https://doi.org/10.3203/IWF/C-1431eng

Ewert, Jörg-Peter: Gestalt Perception in the Common Toad - 1. Innate Prey Recognition. IWF (Göttingen), 1982. https://doi.org/10.3203/IWF/C-1430eng

Schlier, Christoph; Benz, Alois: Signal Recovery by Signal Averaging. IWF (Göttingen), 1978. https://doi.org/10.3203/IWF/C-1285eng

Schwedt, Georg: Chromatography - 2. Analytical Techniques. IWF (Göttingen), 1985. https://doi.org/10.3203/IWF/C-1568eng

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Baghdad_2007-07-12_airstrike_videos

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Metal_textures#Denim_blue_speckled_heavily_discolored_worn_dirty_deteriorating_seamless_metal_surface_sheet_texture

https://www.youtube.com/@ChrisBLong (idea for the 'optical illusion')