Assessment Semester 1
GAMA2001
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My Team
My Team
Tuomo -Conor - Shindy - Kyle - Joe C
Brief Introduction - what this project is about
Brief Introduction - what this project is about
We will work in small teams to create a 2D game. Decide on:
- Genre
- Narrative
- Art style
- Tone
- Objectives
Once agreed, we will work on the UI individually - User Interface and Main Menu/Sub Menus. In semester 2, the team will create a working demo for the game using one of the designed UIs.
Semester 1 submission:
Semester 1 submission:
- Plan your interface flow chart using flowchart
- Create a mockup of the UI before implementation
- Complete a working UI menu in Unity, using placeholder artwork
The menu system requires:
- Start
- Options
- Sound
- Quit
- Controls
- Pause
Semester 2 submission:
Semester 2 submission:
- In teams of 4, design and build the game demo.
Game Design
Game Design
Theme
Theme
- Planes
- Car, vehicle
- Creature
- Vegetable
- Paintball
- Physics
Character
Character
- Creature - animals, aliens, vegetables
- Vehicle - anything from a car to a train, visible driver or not
- Robot - can represent a vehicle or something entirely different from a humanoid character
Narrative
Narrative
- Thinking about the timeline - past, present, future, alternative
- War
- Dinner
- You are a fish
- Migrating animals/creatures
Artstyle/Tone
Artstyle/Tone
- Tied in with narrative: timeline, setting
- Dark mood - horror, danger and death
- Starts as dark, but turns lighter - or the other way around
- Light mood - vegetables, animals, laid-back
- Pixel art
- Stylised
- Menu with multiple playable characters
Genre
Genre
- Sidescroller - shooting, dodging stuff, jumping
Stuff we will definetily have
Stuff we will definetily have
- 2D - can have some 3D elements
- Obstacles
- Sidescrolling game
Fully completed ideas - vote!
Fully completed ideas - vote!
- Robot paintball arena J S C T
"A young robot scientist has to win the international paintball robot tournament in order to get rich and fund his latest project - a better paintball robot."
- Shark who eats fish C
- Fish who dodges sharks C
"You are a hungry shark who has to prepare for a migration by eating as many fish as possible." "The other way around."
- World War II
"You are a pilot who has to attack Britain! How will you succeed D:"
- Transforming vehicle - different types of obstacles for each variant S C T
"Drive! Fly! Boat!"
Paintball Robot - various random ideas
Paintball Robot - various random ideas
- Indoors our outdoors
- Environment/opponents gets coloured with the paint
- Small 3D pickups - ammo, powerups, health/shields, money
- Boss fight - low priority
- Total ammo is unlimited but reloading is required
Flowchart
Flowchart
My version of the flowchart on how the menus would work in the game.
- The game start screen contains the logline for the game's story
- Tutorial/Guide screen contains brief introduction to the gameplay
References for the artsyle
References for the artsyle
UI Design for the game
UI Design for the game
For this week's session we are tasked to look at different types of UI designs from various games, both good and bad designs.
We will then spend time coming up with design concepts for our own UIs to be used on the game - focusing on the menu - referring back to the flowchart made last week.
Researching UI - Moodboard and Font Test
Researching UI - Moodboard and Font Test
Start Menu Designing
Start Menu Designing
Logo and Menu mockup
Logo and Menu mockup
This is what the Main Menu currently looks like. There are still some things I want to look at changing as well as some additions that need to be done:
- Replace the white background with something else
- Animate and improve the cursor
- Change the font - although I like how this font looks, but it is too unconventional to work with
Robo Yam Slam
Robo Yam Slam
I looked at different paintball terms and found the word Yam which is used in the sport when somebody defeats their opponent with ease (similar to pwned). As it currently stands, the Robo Yam Slam will be the name for this project.
Here is the updated logo of the game that shows once the game is started.
Updated Fonts
Updated Fonts
Upgraded Main Menu
Upgraded Main Menu
- A text is displayed on the top right that gives information on each selection box
- The selected box is highlighted with an orange colour
- The cursor is animated
Additional points:
Additional points:
- I might leave the background empty, but if there is enough time I will create an animated scenery that displays there
- I will have to make separate orange boxes that can then be used in Unity to create the highlight (unless there is an option in Unity to do that)
- I might create a paint splatter animation that displays once a selection box is clicked
Next Up - Creating a working UI in Unity
Next Up - Creating a working UI in Unity
Before creating more artwork, I have to actually make the UI within Unity using the guide.
Things to add
Things to add
- Tutorial screen
- Pause menu - return to game, options, quit game
- Possibly make the 'Yes' and 'No' boxes look better
- Emitter on the main menu OR possibly animated background
- Make a nicer looking background in general
- Game logo showing up with 'Click to start' before main menu (find out how to make the text animated if possible)
Icons for Controls
Changes made for the final version
Changes made for the final version
- The startup window (title screen), main menu, and the game view each are their own separate scenes - navigating through these will load the scenes in their respective order
- I changed the cursor to a small gun scope
Reflection on what would have been nice to have included
Reflection on what would have been nice to have included
- Animations on the startup and main menus to make them more lively
- Animated cursor
- Sound effects and a script for the sound sliders to adjust the volume
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