November 30, 2024

Games Development: Task 3 Game Prototype

14/11/2024 - 17/12/2024 / Week 8 - Week 13
Janice Marie Eng Chia Hui /0361521
Games Development/Bachelor of Design in Creative Media / Taylor's University
Games Development: Task 3 Game Prototype

Instructions

Task

//Blog was updated really late cause i forgor

To-Do list:

Player (Floss) AI:

Player Movement (Walk, Jump)
Player short-range attack
Player Long range attack
Player Dies
Player Hurt

Final Boss(Bristle) AI:

Boss Hurt
Boss Dies
Boss Attack
Hitbox for the layer to hit so that they can kill the final box

Enemy AI:

Mom Patrol
Dad Patrol
Mom Attack (Short range) (asset not yet placed in)
Dad Attack (Long range)
Mom Dies
Dad Dies

Traps:

SpringBoard
Spikes (no instant die)
Death Spikes (Instant Die)
Projectiles

Collectable Items:

Hearts
Tooths
Darts
Photo
Checkpoints

Tilesets & Backgorund:

Putting the tile asset in
Placing the background image in

Game UI:

Start Menu Screen
Story Introduction Screen
Conclusion Screen
Dialogue Box (to explain the story in-game)
Pause Screen
YOU HAVE DIED Screen

Things to track things (IDK what to call it)

Player HP
Player Dart charge
Tooth Counter
Enemy HP
Final Boss HP bar

Linking Scenes

The portal is at the end of the level to teleport the player to the next level.
Restart the scene when the player dies
Respawn at last saved checkpoint

Level Design

The first thing I did was put something down on the empty screen. So I just placed blocks down for the level until I had something ok. I followed the logic stated in this video to make the game.

Traps

Projectile Launcher

For this one, I followed this video tutorial on how to make a launcher that spawns and launches the projectile at intervals.

Figure 1.1 Projectile Launcher (13/1/25)

Spikes and DeathSpikes

I have 2 types of spikes:

The normal spikes will take away 20% of the player's HP
The death spike will insta kill the player

For the normal spike, I just edited the code given by Sir during our tutorial classes. I tagged my spike with the tag spike and said if the player collides with the spike, it will minus the player's hp by 20.

For the DeathSpikes, I just made another tag, tagged the object with it and said if on collision with the tag, the player's hp will be reduced by 101 (my player's max hp is 100).

Figure 1.2 The line of code (13/1/25)

Springboard

I made a springboard that can help boost the player high up. I followed this video to make it. It worked out fine.

Figure 1.3 From left, death spikes, springboard and normal spikes (13/1/25)

Enemy AI

Enemy patroling

My enemies will be walking at a fixed distance.

For the mom, her patrol area will be larger as she has short-range attack and having a larger patrol area can increase her hit zone.
For the dad, his patrol area will be smaller than the mom's by a lot as he is a long range attacker. His lack of patrol area can be made up by his longer range.

For the patroling code, I followed this video tutorial.

Figure 2.1 Final Outcome of enemy patrolling (13/1/25)

Enemy Attacks

There will be 2 types of enemy attacks:

Hit by a butterfly net, a short-range attack, done by the mother
Hit by a bullet, a long-range attack, was done by the father.

The mother's attack was fairly simple to do. Back in out tutorial classes, we were taught how to make the player attack people with the animator in Unity. So I applied the same logic to the mother. I gave her a slash point and played the animation to set it active when the player collides with the mother's trigger point.

For the dad, his attack was harder to make cause he needed to spawn the bullet. For this one, I followed this video tutorial to make it work. Again, I just made it so that if the player enters the collider of the dad, the code to spawn the bullet and shoot will play.

Figure 2.2 (Left) Dad Attack (right) Mom attack (13/1/25)

Tilemap

I was told about the tile palate function in unity. One of my friends, Joey, sent me a video on how to use it. So I followed it. I also created a new layout for the tiles so that it can be used in the palate.