Invert

https://www.coregames.com/games/2b32e6/invert

After a great catastrophy that inverted gravity for many of the population, humanity fled underground. Tensions rose and the scarcity of resources, combined with the fear and distrust between the inverted and non-inverted, resulted in bloodshed.

Based on the movie "Patema Inverted". In the movie, a science experiment gone wrong causes gravity to reverse for some people. The survivors flee underground, but are persecuted by the non-inverted. I felt like this was a pretty cool idea for a game mechanic, and I wanted to see what would happen if the two sides ever got into a straight-up gunfight.

My design philosophy was to create a map that can be played right-side up and upside down. The map is mirrored at the midpoint on the XY plane, so each side has a zone where they are right-side up that affords them better mobility and cover, and a zone where they are upside down that allows them to get a better angle on the enemy team. Around the map are girders spanning the width of the map that would have been used both as platforms and as anchor points for grappling hooks.

Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get one team to fall upwards and stand upside down due to my limited knowledge of Lua and the player controller. Both teams stand right-side up and have increased jump height and double jump to navigate the space. Grappling hooks were also planned, but I wasn't able to develop those either. I also created "Inverted Grenades" that fall upwards, but they're not included in the map (technically, they are there but I hid them behind the locked door at Team 1's spawn so you can pull them out and play with them if you want to). This map is designed for a purely theoretical game where the opposing teams have different gravity directions.

Community Content Credits:

- Backpack - Chipnertkj

- Gas Mask - standardcombo