Level Design

This week I managed to complete the story for my game, which will be later on displayed on first walls of the maze(I may need to change the texture of maze walls to make the text more visible).

I also started designing parts of my levels, and after completing most of designs drawings I started creating first part in Unity, which is a maze with "weeping angels" hidden inside of it. I also had to check if "weeping angels can't go through walls as when I created new scene they were...I don't really know why...but the problem disappeared itself somehow...

Here are some screenshots of what I have so far:

Maze- top down view

One exit blocked by rocks

View at the maze when I started creating it

Teleport Script-done!, moving on to creating a story

I finished writing the teleport script,which appears to be almost same as the script I used for "weeping angel" touch script.

Now I should start putting all these things together to start creating  basic level design and figure out a story for my game.

I almost have some parts of the story in my head already so I just need to put all these parts together.

As well as this downloading assets for enemies and for unreal enemies as well to create appearance of it would be very useful...

I decided to use an ancient Egypt theme to style the cave and everything inside it, although the story will take place in present times. The Cave is unexplored by any any human being, as everybody who tried to explore it went missing after getting there, that's why in close cities there are some legends about it. Even though most people doesn't believe these stories, they are not brave enough to enter the cave....

That's the beginning of the story but I don't want to reveal everything before my game will actually be a playable demo..

Weeping angels script part 2

Rrewriting weeping angels script from Javascript to C# and making it work was a piece of cake.. On the other hand, changing player's position back to the start after the weeping angels touch the player, which seemed easy at the beginning, was much more difficult than I thought... At first it seems all i need to do is check if the cube position is the same as player's position and then "simply" change the position of game object... I couldn't be more wrong..

After two days spent writing this script I finally managed to make it work  almost in the way I want it to work... The solution I found was to make function check for collisions(I found basic script to do that), from that script I only took general functions:

(example taken from  website)
function OnCollisionEnter(theCollision : Collision)\

{

    if(theCollision.gameObject.name == "Floor")
    {
    }
}

Which I still had to convert to C# and then change all variables to what I needed.
But this was the easiest way after couple hours reading through Unity Scripts reference for rayCasting functions(not really helpful) and then through OnCollisionEnter functions: partialy helpful-only thing I did wrong was to call these functions in wrong place...

In the end all I needed to add was about two lines of code... Hopefully next scripts won't take me so much time-it may be a good idea to follow a tutorial for most of it :)

Game idea and some scripts...

I started improving m game idea and tried to make it more original. Being inspired by my favourite episodes of Doctor Who series, which included weeping angels statues(for future reference I will use statement "weeping angels" to talk about the idea behind it not the statues), I decided to implement something similar in my game. On the Internet I found already made script for "weeping angel", unfortunately it was in Javascript...(reference link to the script I found)

Weeping Angels from Doctor Who

I rather use C# in Unity therefore I rewrote parts that were specifically in Javascript-mainly declaring the variables. For some I had to figure out what type of variable it was myself as Javascript use type var for any variable whereas in C# I had to specify the type myself. It wasn't very difficult but tricky sometimes.

After this when i tried testing this script I got some errors after starting the game, it happened only because I forgot to set the initial position of a "weeping angel" and made the variable private, which was a big mistake.. But after I figured that out the script started working as it should be(I am not going to explain it exactly as hopefully most of people will play the game first and discover this themselves).

Starting final term project..

Even though I am still developing the idea for my game to improve what i already have, I started creating simple cave in Blender, so that i could start working on other stuff like scripts as soon as possible.

Here is a screenshot of what I already have for my cave(I also created another one just to try import it to Unity and it wasn't difficult so I can can keep working on this one again):

Physics project

Next task I got for my module was to create shooting script. Most of it I remembered how to do from the workshop last week but I also used Unity official tutorial to refresh my memory and make sure I am writing script correctly. each brick in the wall as well as the bullet has a rigidbody component to make sure it acts under physics. The final effect is that when you press mouse button bullet is created in front of the player and is then shot at the direction mouse is pointing, and then after 5 seconds object is destroyed in order not to have too many clones of it.

Some screenshots:

Spotlights following the player-scripts in Unity

Finally managed to make the spotlights follow the player when the specific key is pressed once. Now I will continue updating this script to make the other lights disengage when button is pressed.

Then I will create some random movement for the other spotlights.

Next I will create scripts for shooting bullets into a wall.

After I get all these tasks done I will finally be able to work on my final term project- I have already developed an idea for it, which is quite complexed but fortunately most things are independent in it, therefore if I run out of time I don't have to include everything I wanted and it still will be a playable demo :D The first thing I need to do is to prioritize things I want to implement. The most important for me is probably the cave, which I need to create in Blender and then import into Unity. But more updates on this topic to come soon...

Scripts-first attempt summary..

So I managed to make fully working script that can be assigned to any object and then in Unity there can be keys assigned to move forward, backward, right and left. Unfortunately I didn't fully solved the other problem that would concer spotlights...The farest i got was to create spotlights that can be changed by using assigned keys but to make spotlights follow the player fluently keys needed to be pressed for all the time when moving object...

Spotlights that follow the player...

When creating script I had a problem of how to make if statement for each pressed key work every time Updater is called...I solved it by adding a variable that will store a key to be assign inside Unity itself as a component.

For now I figured out how to write about 4 lines of code that will make the spotlights follow the player..Unfortunately it only follows player as long as the key is pressed down... Therefore I need to figure out how to make it follow the player after single key has been pressed.

Also when I put LookAt() function inside if statement for some reason it is checked only once and then it doesn't update which means player would have to press the key constantly to make the spotlight follow...

Beginning of scripting in Unity

This week I have learned how to write simple scripts for Unity during one of my workshops.

Now I created universal controller that can have different keys assigned by having only one script. I had some problems with syntax when trying to create this, but fortunately I solved it quite easily by creating a variable of type KeyCode and then just putting this variable name in GetKey statement.

Now I also created 3 spotlights each of different colour, and each assigns value true to one of the variables in the script to recognise which colour is the spotlight. now I will create more code to make sure only one spotlight will follow a player at the time, then I will create function that will change spotlights following a player.

In the end if I will have time I will create random movement for unused spotlights...

Game Jam :D

I am taking part in a 24 hour Game Jam, if you want take a look at my team's blog  :)