Jacky Chen

Good day, this is Jacky reporting in, working on the side of the programming team with Alex and Kaifeng. The first step diving into the development of our game has been pretty tough and time-consuming. We all experienced Unity before but this game genre and concept are all fairly new to us and it took quite a long time trying to grasp it. Overall, the team dynamics and communication has been on-point and the meetings we held with other members are going pretty well. Hopefully after this first core demo, we will be able to evolve our project and our skills.

Blog 3 is here and I been just working on fixing up the standard mirror implementation with Alex. I also worked on creating the special effects you can do with the standard mirror, such as pulling ethereal/real objects out of the mirror. Also created a special type of mirror that functions like a portal, which can be used in the future, still need to work on the perspective-type of mirror and fixing up bugs like objects going through floors/walls when picking them up. I also coordinated with Kaifeng with the changes that I've made so he can integrate it into his levels. I created a reset level system along with an accessible level-switcher which allows you to switch between levels for the sake of the demo if anything goes wrong (hopefully not).

Blog 5 is here. I worked with Alex in fixing up the ledge grab collision bug where the player can ascend upwards to heaven by repeatly spamming the jump (spacebar) key. The problem was that there's an animation that occurs when the player is trying to pull themselves up, and playtesters would spam other keys which will conflict with the animation, causing weird bugs to happen. We decided to disable movement control when the animation is playing and enabled it back once the player has been detected to be on ground. I also re-modeled stage 1 of the walls, changing it from a plane mesh to a cube mesh and increasing the thickness of it. I tried working with animations this week but there are still some missing pieces such as the new jumping and walking animation. I should be good to work on the animations, the rest of the re-modeling of stage 2+3, and resetting objects back to the origin point when it's out of place or lost in the abyss, upcoming week.

This week I added collision detection for structural objects like walls, floors and ceilings.

I also added player and object reset manager. If the player enters a void, the player and all objects in the level will reset. If the object falls into a void, the object will reset back to its original position. If the player is holding the object and falls into a void, both the player and object will reset back to its original position.

I finished adding in the mechanic where the platform disappears after a specific amount of time you specify after the player lands on it. I created a prefab for it, essentially it's a gameobject that you add as a child to a parent object and depending on the mesh or shape of the object, you can edit the collider and specify the time you want it to disappear within.

I worked on a case file system that allows the player to view specific information displayed on the paper model when collided. Also worked on the animation for the case file to bring "life" to it and added animation for when the player interacts with it. I also implemented in ledge grabbing animations for the player, however, the animations are still not perfect and not synced correctly, but it works for now.