Tank Wars

I&C SCI 161: Game Engine Lab

Full-Time Student

Winter 2021

Irvine, California, United States

Tank Wars was a three-stage project that concluded as a fully automated zero-player game.

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Stage 1 Target Practice:

Stage 1 of Tank Wars is a 3D target practice move-and-shoot game within an enclosed arena. Player tanks can move around with the objective of searching and destroying 5 targets.

Programmer

• Developed four directional movement with W/A/S/D

• Firing bullets in the facing direction using spacebar

  • Created bullets that didn't interact with the player using colliders of objects causing trigger events upon collision

  • Upon collision with targets both objects programed to be destroyed

Designer

• Utilized Unity's 3D shapes to create a target practice layout, tanks, bullets, and targets

• Made a top-down, non-rotating camera that follows the tank by making the camera object a child of the tank

• Targets made to be static and recognizable

• Designed an enclosed arena so that player tank and bullets would not leave arena

Stage 2 Local Multiplayer adaption:

Stage 2 is where I received another classmate's stage 1 project and adapted local multiplayer. Working closely with the pre-existing material stage 2 has two-players battling it out with each other in an endless cycle of respawn and vengeance.

Programmer

• Fixed any bugs that were encountered

• Adapted a general player control to already established script that allowed for movement and shooting based on indicated keys rather than hard coded ones (allowing for local multiplayer)

• Created new script called TankBehavior.cs that took care of player tanks getting shot and respawning

Stage 3 Fully Automated Zero-player Game:

Stage 3 once again is the task of taking another classmate's stage 2 project and expanding upon it. This time however it's going from two-players to no players battlefield. This stage has a fully automated zero-player game where players watch as teams of tanks destroy each other until there is one team left standing.

UI Designer

• Utilizing Unity UI

  • Created a Menu

    • Select number of teams

    • Select number of tanks in each team

    • Start game

    • Back button

  • Created a Pause Menu to resume/restart the game

Programmer

• Created four new scripts: GamePause.cs, PauseMenu.cs, and MenuScript.cs

  • MenuScript.cs and PauseMenu.cs both created to give indicated menus functionality using public functions

  • GamePause.cs allowed for the game to be paused when clicking the pause button and setting the pause menu as active

• Further developed Movement.cs script to make it into an AI script rather than player movement controls

  • Made it so that AI would look for a target that is not in their team and destroy it

  • Once one team is left standing AI is programmed to stop