Prototype

 Week 07

Project Prototype

This week we will be starting the initial phase of our projects this is an exciting time but is also quite daunting to me, we've spent all this time thinking about how we are going to go about it and kind of forgot that we actually start it at some point and that time is now. I'm going to start with looking up assets for my game like dragon sprites and people that can be brought over from the unity assets store.

Unity Assets Store:

Toon Dragon $9.90

I think this is the perfect dragon sprite that fits the art style I'm going for in this project the only thing about this is that it costs $9.90 this isn't too bad but id prefer to make this project without spending too much money 

From the things that I've seen on this, the animations are just what I'm looking for in this and this would be my first option when it comes to finding a dragon design for the game.

The next big thing I need in terms of assets is a scene somewhere where the player can play and immerse themselves there's a couple of different scenes that I've seen so far that look good I think the best thing would be to mix multiple scenes to create one big environment for the player to see throughout the game.

this asset is something that I wanted to use simply because of the low poly room design and art style I coupled this with some other assets one of these would look great together, another thing that wanted to add was some trees around the city to make it more dense and busy, so downloaded a pack from the assets store with Scandinavian trees.

Starting the Project 01

Scene

The project is coming together nicely after bringing all these assets together to create this scene, I found it hard to customize things with colours and shaders but after watching tutorials on youtube this was easily learned. I intend for the city to be a repeating background, this should be no problem now that I know the code to carry this out but I'll have to take another look at the unity tutorial that taught us this you can check it out here: Lesson 3.2 - Make the World Whiz By - Unity Learn

Gameplay

The gameplay is starting off really simple for the moment I only have the main character dragon coded with a left and right mechanic. I didn't want the player moving off the map so I added a line of code stating that the player can't move any further than -21 when going to the right and 15 when moving to the left. The problem I had when writing this code was that I was coding it on the wrong axis and my character was disappearing but I eventually realized what was going wrong and it's all working now.

I'm having a lot of fun with this game at the moment but this is the stage of the project that is the easiest of the whole thing so I guarantee my opinion will be changing as it goes along, although I think this would be very satisfying to see the progression and the new challenges I face during this project