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Game amendments.

Since last week, I have been able to complete level 2 and 3 and add them into the game so that when the player reaches the end of level 2 the game then loads level 3. Once I had gotten to this stage, I created another updated build of the game which I then sent to a small group of friends to play test and gather feedback.

Some of the feedback that I got from them when I asked them what they thought of the game was: “They enjoyed the quirky hand drawn art style.”

When asked What improvements could be made to the game, tester 1 responded with: “Level 1 needs more oxygen health pick-ups, as the character gets a third of the way into it and then dies due to the lack of oxygen health pick-ups.”

Tester 2 said:” The game could do with more enemy variations throughout the game, because currently there is the shark, jellyfish and sea mine obstacles that damage the character.”

Tester 3 said: “I hope to see some form of outcome for the doubloons and gems that can be picked up throughout the game as currently they just add up a score.”

With this feedback in mind, I was able to add more oxygen health pick-ups to level 1 as well as making sure that there are plenty oxygen health pick-ups in the next set of levels.

With the feedback in mind I began working on level 3 using the blueprint that Will drew up along with his backdrop and foreground assets that he created for the accompanying level.

When adding some of the shark assets to level 3, I began to run into a problem with getting them to move towards the player as the trigger that was attached to them didn't want to register the player character into the trigger, this I overcame by creating 3 empty game objects that would then spawn in the sharks and staggered times to create a gauntlet of obstacles for the player to avoid.

With all the assets now in place as a team we implemented in the final ending cut scene in the style of a digital comic that explains the final outcome of the diver character.

-Rhys

Nearing our deadline for this... too soon man.

- a bit of the ending cutscene.

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BETA Build

Throughout today myself and Will have been working on generating some levels for the game, mainly level 1 and level 2 as well as have a basic main menu and tutorial screen that appears before the main game itself. I had some troublesome moments when creating the FSM for going to level 1 from the menu/tutorial screens as the FSM would recognise the command for get key press down (this being SPACE) but wouldn’t register the command for load level once the key command was pressed. To get around this I had to go through and see what I had done wrong to the FSM, originally I thought that I chose the wrong action state for loading the level but it ended up being a simple text issue in the action name in which I gave the command the correct name but used a space instead of an underscore, this caused Unity to not understand the action correctly.

With the Menu’s now working, we also managed to create and finish level 1 and start level 2, but once we had built level 1 we noticed that the main UI for the oxygen and treasure counter had disappeared and stopped working even when generating a new Prefab of the object, this is a current on-going fix and should be working once level 2 is finished and level 3 is started. -Rhys

Some Screenshots now we’re in Beta. Level 2′s kind stank.

-Will

#getdatbooty #beta #game development

Death animation frames.

- Harry

Level 1 design blueprint created by Will. It currently shows all the obstacles and collectables that can be found throughout level 1.-Rhys

- Harry

A quick video capture of the current game with the current game mechanics and assets.

We currently have a working treasure chest in which it opens when the player character hits it with its weapon, a scripted shark that swims towards the player and chomp attacks the player when in proximity to it, 2 types of breakable rock (grey one breaks after 3/4 hits and a yellow one that breaks after 2 hits), an active life/O2 system that decreases from 100 to 0 to represent the player characters health (its also drops if the player character is hurt), a Gem/treasure system that adds points to it when the treasure is collected and also a working cannon that tracks the player and shoots at the player character (it also stops when its rotation hits a certain point and is re triggered again when the player character goes back in range of it).

The next step we are working on is to get more player feedback in the game so that when the character is hurt it has more of a dynamic animation to it as well as flash red, add particles to the breakables so that it looks like elements of them are being taken away and sparks on the gems and coins when they are collected. -Rhys

Lil’ Sharky’s comin’ t getcha!

~Will

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Game build development.

Throughout today (26/4/16) I have currently been working on creating a moving turret in which the barrel of the turret follows and shoots at the player character. In order to do this, I had to create a float variable to allow it to follow the character between a rotation of 0-355, then I used an invisible 3D object to act as a trigger to reactivate the turrets movement controls again when the player character re-enters the trigger.

I have also created an outline for the UI HUD which I then gave to Will to add colour to it so that it wasn't the basic outline, once this was finished I implemented the UI into the new HUD with the new Oxygen and treasure font.

(video of what we have so far will be uploaded shortly).

-Rhys