Gravity Shifter

Archive of the Gravity Shifter prototype (working title Night Owls: Gravity Invasion) — a small Unity experiment where the player can rotate world gravity 90° at a time and walk on the walls.

Status: Playable team prototype — a group project, not a finished/shipped game. The core gravity-shift mechanic works in the Unity editor; menus, levels, audio, and a packaged build are not implemented.

🎥 Gameplay video

A short (40-second) clip of the gravity-shift mechanic in action:

GravityShifter_clip_short.mp4

The full-quality 9.6-minute capture (Game/NightOwls_GravityInvasion_Gameplay-001.mp4, ~2.7 GB) is not stored in git — it exceeds GitHub's 100 MB per-file limit and is listed in .gitignore. The short clip above is hosted on GitHub's attachment CDN (uploaded via an issue) so it plays inline; for the full video, host it externally (e.g. YouTube) and link it here.

What's in here

archive/
├─ Game/
│  ├─ NightOwls_GravityInvasion_Gameplay-001.mp4   # gameplay capture (git-ignored, ~2.7 GB)
│  └─ GravityShifter_v2/                            # the Unity project
│     ├─ Assets/       # scenes, scripts, materials, Y_Bot model + animations
│     ├─ Packages/     # package manifest + lockfile
│     └─ ProjectSettings/

Running the project

Unity version: 2020.3.38f1 (pinned in Game/GravityShifter_v2/ProjectSettings/ProjectVersion.txt).

1. Install Unity 2020.3.38f1 (via Unity Hub → Installs → Archive). A newer version will still open it but will run a one-way API upgrade.
2. In Unity Hub, Add the folder Game/GravityShifter_v2.
3. Open it — Unity regenerates Library/ on first launch (this can take a minute).
4. Open Assets/Scenes/SampleScene.unity and press Play.

Note: the scene is not in Build Settings, so it runs in the editor but a built player would be empty. Add SampleScene under File → Build Settings before building.

Controls

Key	Action
W/A/S/D (arrows)	Move
Space	Jump
R	Rotate gravity 90° clockwise
L	Rotate gravity 90° counter-clockwise

Movement/jump/gravity live in Assets/Scripts/PlayerController.cs; the Y_Bot animation triggers (W/A/D/E) are in Assets/new_Movement.cs.

Status

Old prototype (last touched Sept 2022), archived as-is. Self-contained — no external assets or textures are referenced beyond what's in Assets/.