Crewmate Army is a buddy mod for Rivals of Aether, adding a group of crewmates, from Among Us, following you around. They react to various events in-game, including kills, the player taking damage, or taunts.
Gif of the mod being used in-game.
Links
- - Downloadable on Steam Workshop.
- - Source code on Github.
Behavior
While Rivals of Aether does have a built-in buddy system, it is not made to handle mutiple buddies at once.
Instead, I developed a new AI from scratch, designed to work with a bunch of buddies at once, without making them feel repetitive.
Some aspects of this AI include:
- Crewmates following the player around at their own pace, and taking regular pauses.
- Crewmates being able to jump up and down platform.
- Crewmates sometimes getting distracted, in which case they will stop following the player for a while, and either walk around or sit down.
- Crewmates doing a random taunt out of a pool instead of always the same one.
- Crewmates being able to take damage and being able to die.
- New crewmates spawning everytime the player gets a kill.
Team
- Orso Philipponnat - Pixel Art, Animation, Programming
- Abigaëlle Batt - Additional Pixel Art