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Unity Tutorial 05 Hi and welcome back! Today I will be writing about the "Collision Decisions" and "Challenge 2 & Quiz Play Fetch" Unity tutorials. These tutorials were a continuation from last weeks. As I didn't do last weeks, I had a lot of work to catch up on! Fortunately, I completed the first tutorial without any problems. The second part was a bit more difficult and I didn't get all of it correct. In "Collision Decisions" I made it so that animals were spawning randomly at different times on the screen. I made it so there was a timed interval between each animal when walking down the screen. I did this by using InvokeRepeating() in the script. I added colliders so that I could feed the animals with all the different food. When all the animals get past the end of the scene, it says  "Game Over". The end of the scene was when they got past the player. Screenshot of Unity The "Challenge 2 - Play Fetch" tut...

Reading 6 Hi and welcome back to my blog! This week I will be focusing on writing the body paragraphs for my chapters. After researching game layout and game design it has become apparent that there are clear steps involved to create these things. I plan to separate each steps into their own paragraphs. Some steps will probably have a few paragraphs due to the amount of content I need to explain. I will also have an introductory paragraph at the beginning and a concluding paragraph at the end. My introductory paragraph will include my thesis and an introduction to my research. The following paragraphs will include the evidence to support my thesis. These paragraphs will include a topic sentence which will restate my thesis followed by evidence to back it up. The evidence will include examples and factual information. A closing sentence will wrap up and end each paragraph. The last paragraph will conclude my research. Image 1: Simplistic diagram of a body paragraph. https:/...

Reading 3 - Research This week I spent time researching my topics for the the chapter I will be co-writing for the book. After breaking down my topics last week into smaller terms I was able to find some useful things online. So far I have noticed that a lot of people have their own process to game design and layout but there are some general steps to follow. I read an article by Top Hatt Waffle where they talked about their old process and how they've improved it. The main steps I noted were; 1.Brainstorming and ideas  You must be able to visualise the level if you want to even attempt to begin this process. 2.Drafting and drawing  This step doesn't need to be a masterpiece as long as you can understand the concept your self. 3.Commitment Commit to the level so that is always in the back of your mind and you're always thinking of new things to enhance the players experience. 4.Initial Construction This is the beginning of creating your level in 3D. 5....

Unity Tutorial 03 Hey and welcome back to my blog! In this blog I will be writing about the second Unity Tutorial I did. This tutorial is a follow up of last weeks one. In this tutorial I learned how to move the vehicle forward/backward/left/right when the player presses the arrows. This tutorial was all mainly C# Script 😐. Screenshot of Unity

Unity Tutorial  Hey welcome back to my blog! In this blog I will be talking about the first Unity tutorial I completed since we got back. I enjoyed this tutorial a lot more than last semesters. I think the talking was slightly more engaging and the text under each step was very useful. My memory of Unity needed to be refreshed after the long break and this tutorial certainly did the trick.  Screenshot of Unity In lesson 1.1 I set up the project and imported assets. I then positioned the vehicle, obstacle and camera within the scene. All of this was fairly straight forward. I also looked over the project, hierarchy and inspector windows.  In lesson 1.2, I moved the vehicle down the road at a constant speed using C # Script. I also learned how to get the obstacles to fly into the air when hit by the vehicle. In the last lesson (1.3), I set the camera to follow the vehicle down the road. I found the script slightly difficult during this part as I kept ...

Hello and welcome back to my blog! After a long break we are finally back and this semester we are writing a book! I'm excited to be able to say I was apart of a published book. This week we have been preparing research strategies for each of our chapters. The topics within my chapter that I will be researching are; 1. Layouts 2. Level Design Process I brainstormed my topics so I could explore the subject in slightly more detail. I tried to break down each title as you can see in my mind map. Level Design Process Brainstorm Game Layout brainstorm I have come up with some questions based on the topics I will be researching; What is a game layout? How are games laid out? What is included within a game layout? What is a level design process? What steps are included in the process of level design? How do you design a level? I looked at synonyms for the words "Layout", "Design" and "Process". For "Layout" I found the f...