Black Shades

Black Shades was one of the winners of the UDevGame 2002 contest, out of about 40 contestants. I aimed for a much simpler graphical style than in GLFighters and Lugaru in order to complete the game within the deadline. In Black Shades you control a psychic bodyguard, and try to protect the VIP (dressed in white) from a horde of zombies, snipers and other assorted would-be assassins.
Main features:
- Infinite randomly generated city
- Rag-doll skeletal animation
- Soul release mode
- Fluid aiming system
- Stop assassins by shooting them, knocking them unconscious, disarming them, tackling the VIP out of the line of fire, or any combination of the above.
Enhancements:
- 11-1 fixed "quick keys" issue when pressing a key such as b (to turn on infinite slow-mo) would turn off when the key was let off, thus requiring the player to hold that key down for infinite slow-mo.
- 11-1 spaced out text in developer mode, and made cursor on main menu brighter being easier to see.
- 10-29 cleaned up bits and pieces, clearly resulting in performance gains... especially on older machines.