Multimedia Development

So next up in the development of my game was the Alpha. Last week the things that I said I wanted to achieve were: Correcting Spawn Manager Introduce repeating scene of trees to complete my terrain Add Game Over message when Player impacts with obstacles What I did achieve was: Adding Mountains as Background Adding Collectable Rotating Coins Not going to lie this week was the toughest week I had so far with getting Unity to work and I'm disappointed with how little I got done. I spent about 2.5 hours on it and feel a little unmotivated at the moment because of the end result of this week.  The first thing I wanted to do was correct my Spawn Manager. I went to previous Unity Tutorials for help, the first time it didn't work so I completely restarted. I did the exact same process again, typed slowly, triple checked the coding but it still wouldn't work after nearly an hour trying so I gave up. My object is spawning on the spot at the moment but for it to be useful in my game ...

Finally !! The last week of Unity Tutorials this semester. From next week on I will instead use Tutorials that will further help in the development of my game. I have been some tutorials the past few weeks so I will be sure to include them in next weeks post.  So what did I think of the last Unity Tutorial? First off was Lesson 4.4 - "For-Loop For Waves". I actually got on pretty well with this one. It was one of the shorter ones we had to complete and there was only 5 actual steps to do to complete it. The steps were really straight forward and with the playback speed on the video increased x2 it didn't take long at all to finish it. The tutorial went over how to make multiple enemies spawn at once, I played around with this one and changed the number a few different times to see if it worked which it did. The picture below is when I changed the number to 3 enemies.  The next thing the tutorial explained was how to destroy enemies would they had fallen off the sides of t...

This week it's review week and I am reflecting on the reading and writing tasks for the previous 8 weeks.  I think the Reading tasks have been okay so far. I much preferred the informative videos included in some of the weeks than the Academic Papers, I thought they were quite tedious and tough to get through. Although tedious they were helpful in the creation of my project and below I will speak about my favourite weeks. The first thing that I did was went to my blog and searched for all my blogs with the label "Reading". When I looked back on each one my two favourites were definitely "Game Elements" in week 4 and "Games GDD" in week 6. Game Elements was very informative and went into more depth about the different gaming elements. Games GDD was a really helpful one, it told us exactly what a Game Design Document was, how to make one and also what should be included in it. The project task for that week was to create our own Design Document so readin...