As you’ve probably noticed, this blog has been quiet recently – and that’s because I have been working on unity!
Unity is a game development program, and its free! Its a little complicated to start with, but, thanks to a wealth of information available online, I’ve been making great progress in game development
In order to illustrate everything Ive worked on over the past month, please view the video below! It demonstrates a test level I built for the game, including a killfloor (below) and a handful of pickup objects
As you can see in this video, I have done a lot of work – I have fully functioning menus, including a pause screen and task sheet that can be accessed with tab, with the full ability for upscaling, changing and reusing them as necessary – I have a character, with a following camera, and the ability to move, sprint, jump, and pick up objects as I want.
However, there are many issues, as can be seen in the video above – sometimes, the objects let themselves be picked up correctly, and are counted – other times, they get deleted at random – either all at once, or whenever I approach them – for reasons that I have yet to work out. As I cant determine the cause, it’ll likely be best to rebuild the system completely – and I currently have plans to replace this pickup system with a ‘holding object’ system – it just might take some time to build, and will require some research to create.
Also, as can be seen at the end, the sprint key occasionally breaks, and causes rather severe issues – the racoon speeding up unstoppably in a single moment, and flying off into space so quickly the camera cant follow – breaking the game completely. I could rectify the game-breaking by putting kill-floor walls in – but, this wouldn’t fix the game attempting to launch the player, and would still be a major, and common, game-breaking bug
Obviously, there are a lot of things that need to be fixed before I can even start assembling the actual game – but, for someone who has never worked with unity before, I feel I have made a lot of progress, and learnt a lot in the process – and will only continue to do so!
Raccoon Game 