Unity Free Tutorials

Unity Tutorials I found interesting

There are some tutorials that I have looked through because I was not sure that some of the scripts and parts I wanted were as advanced enough so I was trying to see if I could upgrade them or maybe master some texture or lighting effects to make my map look the way that I picture it in my head.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-KX8AeGK7E

In this tutorial I was trying to figure out how to make my left and right movement more fluently because I wanted my ball (player) to have more control so I would have my game not only playable but it can be able to be finished and passable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D33d4w89vTs&feature=emb_logo

I was trying to find a way to figure out how to make my game as simple and do able as possible because I would love for my audience to have the instructions to know how my game go as simple as it is so I wanted to put a text there and change the color and fonts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=404&v=8bIdUzpQ928&feature=emb_logo

I was trying to make my game as easy for the user as possible so I wanted to have the game automatically restart when you "die" So I made an invisible base plate So when you touch you start again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fI3MBMSR5k&feature=emb_logo

I wanted to have my map look good so I wanted to have good lighting or reflection and playing with the reflection for the texture or shine.

I think that is was a great experience and I look forward to seeing what my game turns into

Game Stories

Game Stories

I was reading through some of peoples stories of how they came across their game and made it work by taking a huge risk and going for it no matter the outcome.

I was reading about an RPG game called Rollers of the Realm. It was founded by a company called Phantom Compass and it was founded in 2008 that was made to develop games for kids Tv producers. They were very product but they lacked in funds for low budget flash games. Later on in late 2011 they laid off literally dozens of staff members, more than half of the members that were laid off were over qualified in experience. The phantom compass founder Tony Walsh and production head Ericka Evans saw an opportunity in this and brought some of the best vets into a meeting with the indie team. A triple side A came to them with high production values and experience with shipping large titles. They took a big risk combining 2 distinct teams and choosing a unlikely mash up of pinball and role-playing games. They ended up with 3 years, 2 funding rounds and nearly 50 extended team members later exceeding everyone's expectations.

See what happened was they had an original idea for the game Rollers of Realm when both Phantom compass and laid off triple A friends came together. They came up with a simple idea that was easy to get behind and enough scope to produce 3-6 months. Their friend Tom Beirnes brought up Pinball Quest as something that had not be done before at the time in the early 90's.

This was a 2D protype

The concept opened alot of doors and gave them some ideas to start working off of. They managed to put together a 2D prototype of the game in time for GDC 2012 and got ready to show their game to the world. When they showed it off everybody liked to so much so infact that they were given a fund which they immediately used to turn their 2D game idea into the first major 3D game. One the public started to find about and enjoy their idea they decided to start making characters to help keep the story narrative simple and place focus on the old misfit playable characters.

They made a 3D major Game

 The next step on the development of the game was finding out if it was fun and if people where going to enjoy at as much as they hoped that they would so they did what anybody else would do when the game was close to completion and they hire around 100 testers  all different age ranges to play the game and give feedback and the game

Full version with people playing the game for testing

When all of that was done they had to look and think what platform that they would like to have their own game like xbox or pc ect.

The moral of the story is at first they had a lot of problem and they were struggling and they were down on there luck but after taking risks and doing things that nobody else would think about and they got there in the end because of  dedication and a hard working team.

Tech Task: Meme Generator P2

Tech Task: Creating a Meme

What does this mean to you?

Alpha

Alpha

This is the picture of the game I put the mesh renderer on so you can see the white floor as the restart part on touch.

I have spent a good few hours working on the restart on touch part because for some reason it was not able to work I was unable to figure out why but I was able to find out a situation after looking thought plenty of YouTube videos to find a good script also I was able to figure out that I did not rename a part correctly. I am trying to figure out how I am going to spawn players (bot) to chase the real player all the way to the finishing point. I was also considering that I might want to make sound effects in the game so that it would be more realistic or more fun to have something more to look forward to in the game. I plan to meet my goal by working on finding more videos and assets so on the day it is basically import my ideas and modify it to my style.

Week 9 Progress

Week 9 Progress

I am so happy with how my progress with this Course and this module is going because I am doing amazing and I am very shocked because I did not think that I would be able to keep it intact due to my bad time management but I was surprised to find out that it is very flexible to work around and I was able to make it and bring it around my own time schedule which is amazing that it can be done anywhere online and I am very thankful that they made it so all the information is on as part of the assignments because I am able to learn and complete my assignments at the same time. I will not lie to you guys.. I do not have the best weekly routine but I am improving and getting help about it which is making me feel a lot better about how my work is going. The task I am enjoying the most out of this course is unity tutorial because I am a practical learning and visual so I am very good at replicating what I see in videos so it is needless it is the highlight of my week. I have also been using some of the extra credit later on because I did not know that it was extra I thought it was only if you missed an assignment but since I have learned I have been doing some easy ones such as making memes and fake comment generator which I found it a little entertaining.

This is an image from when I was using unity tutorials to help me advance on my game and improve my skills which I very much enjoyed.

I have honestly say that there is nothing I want to change I hope it stays the same or at least the way the timetable is similar. If I was to try something new in the future it would have to be a more complicated game to try work on my skills.

I will try to stay motivated to all my assignments and try to keep on task.

Review Week Comments and Feedback

Reviewing Week Comments and Feedback

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How can I explain the type of information that I have been receiving over the last couple of weeks/months...

I think that I would rate my overall information and guidance that I have been receiving from them all an outstanding 10/10 because of how they not only where able to encourage me on how my work and planning skills where working out they also where telling me about how they think my ideas may and may not work and made my changes or my mind think about my game in different kind of aspects and I was able to benefit from there new and unique ideas when I hit a rough patch in the road of my game. They were able to give me ideas and even though it did not benefit me at the very start it did help me with a fresh start and I am very grateful for that.

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I would like to believe that the comments that I am leaving are very informative because I have been following a few tips and tricks that I have been thought by the few readings that I have read such as WWW and TAG. I was able to let them know what I thought about their game and what I enjoyed the most about there game with aspect and also gave them some information on what could be added or improve there game as well as how to make it easier for us to know where they are at with the game on blog with pictures or screenshots. I was able to improve my own writing and questions by reading some of my classmates way of phrasing things and trying to adopt to they way they do it with my own spin to it.

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I have not only benefited from the blog for my own personal use but it has allowed me to help connect with some of my class mates because it had given me an insight toward the way I see my friends and I was able to see what they are capable of in terms of skills and creativity. I have also gotten to have a look into there social life which I think is very good because it gives us more to talk able and allows me to see things that I never knew about them whether it be natural blogger or ex YouTube. So I am very happy that I was able to explore other peoples blogs.

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I would like to see more advances made on how to make a successful blog like how to make it very colorful and attractive for a global public blogger standard. I would also be looking forward to the amount of task that we have next year and hopefully we will be able to have all of our certificate for Expert Bloggers. I am hoping to be able to master blogger so I can use this to connect with countless people all over the world.

Week 9 Reading and Writing

Reading and Writing

Reading

I enjoy reading about what makes quality games because I never really had that big of an insight on making games and what it took  to make a really good games because I used to think that when you have a game in mind you just all start to build it and do trial and error without all the other steps of planning out and showing an outline and sketches. I was able to learn about what made a good game work and the different approach that you could used to help make or break your game. I did not know that there was a lot of different genres that were categorized in a game such as the following:

• Role Play
• Virtual Reality
• Simulation
• Massive Multiplayer Online
• Casual Game
• Party Game
• Puzzles
• Action
• Adventure

Pick the Genre and Run the Game.

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I would like to be the first one to say that the reading was the best thing for me because I would never have had the energy nor the knowledge to know where to find it or read it by choice but since it was made as part of the assignment it made it very easy for me keep my mind at ease knowing that I have it as an assignment as I could also do my learning all in one done but what makes it a lot easier is the time limit that we have because of how we all have our own pace in reading so we can look through the information for 30 min. I feel like the assignment in general had been a success considering the reading and less practical aspect of the assignment is very good and I am getting everything figured out and done within the due date as the weeks go on. My original project with the information that I have learned was very good on paper but however it was very hard to make to make my idea come to life however I was able to start a new game and it is coming again swimmingly.

I was trying to make it very simple and have a lot of my ideas from the previous one involved during the transition of change however I have decided that I will only take 1 aspect from the game and try to fix the problem that I have gotten myself into by changing the game completely.

 When I look back at my project that I was planning to do about Space Pong it was a very good concept and was very original in my eyes and I thought that it would turn out amazing and it was almost about to become real but I forgot that everything always looks good on paper until the process begins and from that I realized that it was very hard to make my vision come out because of the fact that I was thinking ahead of my current abilities and even though my did not have to be perfect as a prototype I had to make cuts as I noticed I was not where I hoped to be when I got to a certain stage.

Unity Free Tutorial

Unity Free Tutorial

I changed my game but I was able to use some of the tutorial in order to make my game. I did not need a lot of tutorial because I knew how to do some of it because I kept it very simple. Here are some of the tutorials I have used to help make my game work well and come to the amazing improved game that is has changed into currently.

 I was able to learn from the player controls on the paddles and remaster it to fit my game and put my controls into my balls so it was able to have movement like left and right.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oY--Zk9b6w 

I was able to figure out that instead of making a whole ui menu to show the player instructions we could have it in real time to teach them the controls as the game is in progress to show how to play and also to stop the petty switch from game to pause menu to learn basic instructions to prolong the gaming experience. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D33d4w89vTs

I feel like my game is starting to come together because this is my first time making a game on a new software and it is very much detailed and had to be done specifically from scratch wish makes the whole experience that much harder and fulfilling.

Tech Task: Fake Social Media Generator

Fake Social Media Generator

I was able to make a fake comment generator pretty simple. I really had fun making it because I did not think that it was going to be simple but it was fun to make I can not wait to make some more.

First Playable

First Playable

I wanted to make my game a little simple for me to make because of how hard it is to make a game. I have changed my idea slightly. I see how much effort it takes to make a game and I went with some concepts and rearranged my style. I went with a sort of speed runner type of game and I was able to come up with a level with obstacles and and it is not 100% certain yet but I am hopping to spawn enemies and try to slow you down and maybe push you off the map.

What I enjoy?
I am enjoying the building process of the map and the way the I can adjust the map as I play to make it suitable.

What I am finding difficult?
The scripting is very hard to get my head around and understand the process of how to make everything work and sync together.

Here are some obstacles that I was talking about above.

Tech Task: Meme Generator

Meme Life

I was making a meme and it was very fun to make because I have never made one before. I will be honest when I saw I was never really into memes as a child but I can see why people enjoy them but I ended up making a meme today. Like the saying goes "If you cant bet them... join em" so I shall. If you look below you will be able to witness the meme I made and came up with.

I hope you enjoy it.

Game Fun

Game Fun

I was learning about how there was a long discussion that went from November of 1989 till May 1990 between the wizzes which means highly experienced players, of ranked witches or wizards on a commercial in the UK ( Bartle, 1990b; Burka, 1995). Funny enough it was all sparked up by one simple question and that was "What do you people want out of a MUD?" and it started to draw up some debates and people were starting to question certain topics, it comprised several hundred bulletin-board posting, typically concerning what people liked and what they didn't like, what they played and changes they would like to see "improve" the game. It was a huge discussion and there was over 15 people that took part which brought more people into a more furious conversation that was not easily settled, this comprised almost the entire set of wizzes during the period. It did help that people that were contributing to this argument was the most advanced players in MUD that could be taken as evidence that that they prefer a more game-like aspect over social ones.

The 4 thing that people where really excited about MUD were:

• Players give themselves game-related goals, and vigorously set out to achieve them. This usually means accumulating and disposing of large quantities of high-value treasure, or cutting a swathe through hordes of mobiles (ie. monsters built in to the virtual world).

• Players try to find out as much as they can about the virtual world. Although initially this means mapping its topology (ie. exploring the MUD's breadth), later it advances to experimentation with its physics (ie. exploring the MUD's depth).

• Players use the game's communicative facilities, and apply the role-playing that these engender, as a context in which to converse (and otherwise interact) with their fellow players.

• Players use the tools provided by the game to cause distress to (or, in rare circumstances, to help) other players. Where permitted, this usually involves acquiring some weapon and applying it enthusiastically to the persona of another player in the game world.

INTEREST GRAPH

Source: MUD.CO.UK

Prototype

Prototype

I think that it is going to be very difficult to make my idea come to life because even though it sounds like a very simple idea and does not sound like much it will have a lot of objects parts and coding that I will need to be able to figure out and make it all come together. I feel like my idea is working well and I am on the right track and trying to figure out how to make a working scoreboard at the end however I think the part that I am trying to make work would have to be obstacles spawning out randomly to intercept and change the trajectory of the ping pong ball.

I plan to watch a few tutorials and implement it on my game within sections and only take the part  that I feel will most benefit my game.

Here is an outline on illustrator of how I imagine it working out. 

Unity Tutorial 6

Unity Tutorial 6

Hey Guys. I am glad you are coming back to check up on me. I was on my next stage of the unity tutorial. I found it very amazing and extremely mind boggling because I think that it the coding is and will always be the hardest thing to get your mind around but the building and exploring new features was always the highlight of my tutorials. At this stage in the tutorial I learned how to make a wind zone that can effect the environment around me and also was able to make trees and bushes look very much realistic. I am really excited that I was also able to complete picking up weapon script because it is a very useful basic thing to learn much like how to pick up items. I  would like to add that having more objects to add to the word make everything really come together because it does not look plain and starts to evolve into a theme or mood.  I would also like to end by saying that I was also to make a very simple but hard fade in and fade out effect inside games.

I feel like I am learning a lot of useful skills from the tutorials and everyday I am gaining my experience to be able to make a basic simple game that is going to be able to use some of these good advises. I have some images of the work I did in unity down below.

  

Adding a House and Playing around with the Texture

I was able to add more than trees such as plants and add wind effect

Games Decision

Game Decision

We are here trying to decide the types of choices that would have a better success rate for your game.

 (Here are peoples projects I think you would like to look at)

I have learned that MMO games are very popular in the industry. It is however very complex to make due to technical issues in server scaling along with the scaling of economics, politics, level design, pacing, persistence and progression. It is very big and will most likely cost you a fortune but the unquestionable fact that more players are better and always has a big fan base so it is worth pursuing.

Now it is not all bad news because MUD's (Multi User Dungeon) have dozens to thousands of people in population and still have vibrant communities. There are some games like Multiplayer Minecraft which is very popular despite its reliance and relatively small instance server. There are many more modern hits such as fortnight which focuses on the matches of 100 people or less.

In thoughts of a social group I think it is smart to know what and how you would like the amount of players you meet on a daily would be categorized in your game. In a game if there was a task that you had to work together on in order to reach your goal or accomplish it quicker because groups have overlapping individual network. I believe that the performance as a whole depends on how the friendship bones across the entire group are leveraged to accomplish and share activity. That is way it is important to know where you stand in importance in a social group. I think this would help in explaining.

Good Examples of MMO's

I would give the games below a 10/10 for what a good MMO game looks and feels like as I have played them before and think it was well planned out.

(Link to the Images and Further Information here)

NeverWinter

DC Universe Online

Tera

The Elder Scrolls Online