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Height Map Definition and Purpose

How to create a new terrain

Adding textures to terrain

Terrain tools

Making new terrain map

Importing terrain map to Unity

Blurring terrain maps to soften them

Making terrain map with Solarize

“Crushing down” terrain maps

How to make peaks not the same height

 

“Not only do we tend to think about the world according to what we want to see and what we need to see, we tend to think in terms of what we expect to see.”

I strongly agree with this statement, as people can easily make predictions in our mind, and it is what causes most accidents to happen. You expect the road to be clear, then BAM! Someone ran a red light, but you could not react quick enough as you didn’t expect it, you predicted something different.

• Creating a new Project
• Explaining Hierarchy
• Creating a New Object
• “Unchecking” Objects
• Explaining Tags
• Explaining Layer
• Adding Components
• Different ways of creating Objects
• Project View
• Difference between game Object and Asset

 

These two mind maps I created represent the different parts and features of two game ideas that I had came up with in a different unit. The two games were Scale and Wilderness, and each had four topics, Code, Music, Graphics, and Level design.

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• Coordinate system
• Make 2D By changing camera to orthographic
• World/Global coordinate system vs. Local
• Game object definition
• Creating an Empty (Command + Shift + N)
• Objects that do stuff
• Mesh Filter, Box Collider, Mesh Renderer
• Other types of Shapes, Sphere, Plain, etc.
• Components
• Transforms & Transformations
• Order of Operations
• Nesting

 

1. Provide a detailed overview of the objective of the game.

The Game Swords and Sandals 2 is a strategic fighting game where two people face off in an arena. The objective is to level up your character and draw first blood on the battle field by depleting your enemies armor. You can also upgrade your weapon, enchant it, buy spells, buy armor, or buy a new weapon.

2. List 3 or more things you like about the game. Why?

• Strategy – I really like the different things you can upgrade in the game, since there are so many strategies and combinations to choose from.
• Skill – It takes a bit of skill to defeat an enemy, which I like. You have to choose whether to attack or move away to save energy.
• Weapons – There is a wide range of weapons in four different categories, which is nice because you’ve got a nice selection to choose from.

3. List 3 or more things you do not like about the game. Why?

• Repetitive – The music in the game doesn’t have much variety, it would be better if it had a couple different songs to play while you battle.
• Weapons – While there is a wide variety of weapons, I personally think they’re overpriced.
• Tournaments – This one is a bit nit picky, but I think you should be able to shop after a battle in the tournament, and not just one after another.

List 3 or more reasons why you think the game you are reviewing is successful.

• Addicting – Trying out new strategies is very fun and addicting, which brings players back to the game multiple times.
• Satisfying – It is very satisfying when you finally defeat your enemy, which makes you want to defeat more and more enemies to become the best.
• Competition – Competing with your friends to get a better gladiator score is both addicting and satisfying when you beat them.

What does MDA Stand for?

Mechanics:

Rules and systems that make your game work and make the player experience different things. It can be the math for calculating jumps and gravity.

Dynamics:

The actual experience the user plays that the mechanics create. The strategy of a shooter is made by mechanics but makes an experience of shooting enemies and getting to the finish.

Aesthetics:

The emotive experiences you want to play in a game. This could be expressive art, or great music inside of a game.

EIGHT TYPES OF AESTHETICS (Wikipedia):

1. Sensation (Game as sense-pleasure): Player experiences something completely unfamiliar.
2. Fantasy (Game as make-believe): Imaginary world.
3. Narrative (Game as drama): A story that drives the player to keep coming back
4. Challenge (Game as obstacle course): Urge to master something. Boosts a game’s replayability.
5. Fellowship (Game as social framework): A community where the player is an active part of it. Almost exclusive for multiplayer games.
6. Discovery (Game as uncharted territory): Urge to explore game world.
7. Expression (Game as self-discovery): Own creativity. For example, creating character resembling player’s own avatar.
8. Submission (Game as pastime): Connection to the game, as a whole, despite of constraints.

Notes:

SCOPE: More people is better than one with experience.

Forums can help with problems you may have, and its  more effective than just being angry.

Build based on your talents

Don’t give up.

Notes:

Don’t create long goals, have small ones.

It’s gonna take a while to build the game. Double amount of time you think it’ll take.

Don’t worry about the quality of your first game.

Set Milestones

Breakdown milestones further

Send yourself an email to check up on what you did last week and what you did this week.

Review game once a week.

Don’t worry about production quality

Don’t spend more than an hour trying to solve something yourself.

Force people to play your game

Notes:

Minimum Viable Product:

Minimum essentials that are needed to be able to play the game.

Also have a reset.

Maybe running.

Function > Content

Idea 1: 2D Puzzle Game: Resizer

Objective: Complete puzzle levels to get to the top of a mountain, and you use a gun that can shrink things and grow things instantly to help you.

Idea 2: 2D Puzzle Game: Colony

Objective: You are a singular bacteria, and you eat food to reproduce and grow your colony inside a human, traverse through the person’s body and fight their immune system.

Idea 3: 2D Puzzle Game: Zoo Breakout

Objective: You are a crocodile inside of a zoo, and you want freedom. You manage to escape your enclosure and need to find a way to exit the zoo.

Idea 4: 2D Platformer: Virus

Objective: You are a molecule, trying to escape a computer that is being taken over by a virus, and you have to transform into different forms to traverse your way out.

Idea 5: 2D Platformer: Wilderness

Story: Some shady animal smuggling company is flying over Canada, but due to technical difficulties, the plane crashes in the Canadian forest. The only animal in the plane that survived is you. A Giraffe.

Objective: Explore the new biome and try to traverse your way past bears, wolves, and other threats while climbing the hilly terrain in order to get to civilization.