Lauren's Blog

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...

Project : Week 11 Hi and welcome back to my blog! Over the past few months I've been working on my game for this module. Unfortunately that same game was deleted twice  so I had to start from scratch last week. This was very frustrating for me but I got a good bit done. I have also screen recorded my game now in case this happens again. My game doesn't have as many components as I had planned but I'm still happy with what I've done. I have successfully built a platform game which includes a player, scorebox, timer and collectable items. As I have said before in previous blog posts, the C# Script has always been the most difficult part for me. I came across some difficulties with it but managed to figure out what was causing the errors. I watched a lot of Jimmy Vegas'  tutorials  which drastically helped with the scripts. You can see some of the scripts I created in the screenshot below. I made more after this screenshot was taken. Image 1: My game ...

Unity Free Tutorial Hi and welcome back to my blog! This week has been fairly hectic for me as I lost my game not once, but TWICE! As you can imagine, this was (is) a pretty stressful situation to be in. With all the the assignment deadlines coming up I'm finding it difficult to catch up on my work. That being said, I had a quick look at a Unity tutorial that I might apply to my game once I get it back up and running.  The Unity tutorial I watched is  #3 Crouch Tutorial - Unity Game Creator Tips & Tricks  by  Game Creator .In this tutorial he explained how to get your player to crouch during you game. Surprisingly enough, he didn't use a script to achieve this action. I only watched this tutorial but I hope to test it out this weekend.  Image 1: Screenshot of tutorial That's all for today. Can't wait to show you all my game when it's finally finished!!