Summary

The flappy bird project was a project where we used a series of video tutorials and on hand experience to learn how to make a flappy bird style game. the purpose of this project was to learn how to use the basics of unity’s 2-d engine. We downloaded assets to make a flappy bird style game, then we uploaded them into unity. Then we made a script so the bird could go up and down and “die” when it hit the ground. Next, we animated the bird adding a flap and die animation. We then put in some score text and put in a script that allowed us to restart the game when w “died”. There was more to the project but I did not finish it.

Notes:

Models and meshes

Why triangles?

Mesh filters and mesh renderers

Capsules

differences of planes and quads

How best to use primitive models

How to organize your assets

Inputing objects into folders

How to make objects visible

How to make objects larger without wasting time

How to add assets to your scene

Space robot kyle

Importing/Downloading assets

 

Notes

Coordinate systems

Local coordinate system

Game objects

Pre set game objects

 

Albert Hsieh Candy Crush Saga

What platform is used to play the game?

MAC

What is the objective of the game?

The purpose of the game is to connect 3 of the same candies in a row to score points, your job is to score a certain amount of points within a limit of moves (1 move = moving one piece of candy).

What three things do you like about the game?

1. The art style
2. The simplicity
3. The speed of the game

What three things did you not like about the game?

1. The pay to win play style
2. The disgusting overuse of “cute”
3. The lack of an actual story

List three reasons why you think this game is popular and successful

1.Its fast

2.Its simple

3.Its addictive

The plan

To make candy crush better they should remove the life system. Its pointless why try 3 times then instead of paying just wait a for a couple of hours and try again? Instead make the game more difficult but make it so they lose near the end not the beginning. But, keep advertisements, without limits on lives the players will keep trying the difficult levels they will think “I almost had it!” and keep on trying over and over getting more playtime which means more time for advertisements which just so also means more money made.

Mechanics

The basics of how the game works. Its the guidelines, what the payer can do with it, and the games guts (algorithms and data structure).

Dynamics

How the games mechanics work with the player.

Aesthetics

the emotion provoked from the player by playing the game.

Eight Type of Aesthetics:

1. Sensation (Game as sense-pleasure): Player experiences something completely unfamiliar.
2. Fantasy (Game as make-believe): Imaginary world.
3. Narrative (Game as drama): A story that drives the player to keep coming back
4. Challenge (Game as obstacle course): Urge to master something. Boosts a game’s replayability.
5. Fellowship (Game as social framework): A community where the player is an active part of it. Almost exclusive for multiplayer games.
6. Discovery (Game as uncharted territory): Urge to explore game world.
7. Expression (Game as self-discovery): Own creativity. For example, creating character resembling player’s own avatar.
8. Submission (Game as pastime): Connection to the game, as a whole, despite of constraints.
   

   Notes:

   Good game design is finding a way to connect with your player. Try to use genres to push the point of your game. Use genres to fill in holes that other genres lack the ability to fill. Always know why your combining your genres

Notes:

The Ideas

1. A first person team based game where you fight to push a payload/ capture an objective or defend a payload/ objective.

This game will include: 3 game modes; payload, capture points, and King of the hill. A league of legends like item system. different characters and classes. each class will be unique in there own way, while still maintain one of 4 big class types; Tank, Fighter, Assassin, and Support.

Objective: capture/defend the objective.

Running, shooting, realistic, objective

2. A third person strategy game where you control an army in real time fighting another players army.

This game will include: 5 races with their own play styles, 5 maps, and one castle for each player. you must out maneuver/destroy the enemies army to get to their castle. Once you lose your army, its gone forever.

Objective: destroy the enemies castle.

Controlling units, 3-d, Objective

3. A third person side scrolling fighter with simple mechanics and interesting maps

This game will include: many many unique maps 28 different characters,  and smash bro like mechanics. We will be inputting blocking mechanics and unique characters unlocked through map secrets.

Objective: Knock all enemies off the map.

Fighting, Toony, Happy

4. A first/third person game where you are engaged in a space battle complete with entire fleets of ship all varying in sizes and power

This game will include: up to 4 giant fleets fighting each other, up 5 different classes of ships for each fleet, and interesting weapons and controls. Fleet ships can be the size of giant cruiser ships to small fighters. each has its own place in its massive fleet.

Objective: destroy the enemy fleet(s).

flying, Lock on, Sci-fi, complex

5. A top down shooter where you fight monsters and bosses

This game will include: 6 bosses, 12 different types of enemies, 5 levels, and lots of upgrades. Once you complete all the objectives you have to complete all the levels, backwards. Fighting the bosses first the all their minions.

Objective: save your dog.

rolling, shooting, toony, Simple

The video

Notes

 

1. What are scenes?
2. Hierarchy view
3. Adding things to scenes
4. Tagging
5. Assets
6. How to correctly delete objects
7. How to create packages
8. The asset store
9. The console
10. Scene view
11. How to move objects
12. How to move around in scene view
13. Camera preview
14. adding ambient light (lighting)
15. aligning with axis
16. How to make it easier to align things
17. Game view

Summary

 

Font

Color Palette

Pie Chart

Script

Hi I’m Ari. This week we “willingly” did a project on what we time we spent doing things during a 24 hour period. Throughout this project I learned that I spend 33.3% of my day in school/ doing schoolwork, another 29.2% of my day sleeping, I also spent 16.7% of my day with my family, 8.4% of my day is moving places, I spend 8.3% of my day entertaining myself, and I spent a total of 4.2% of my day eating. I have found that in my life, I spend most of my time bored in school or dreading my next day in school. I spend so little time doing things I enjoy it’s scary. And even with the very large appearance of my time sleeping the amount of time I spend sleeping is still considered not enough.  This project has shown me the horrors of “average” life. But, I will not allow numbers to get in the way of how enjoy things.

Storyboard

 

Editing

 

The Documentary

What I Learned

Body language says a lot. The way you sit, whether or not you shake someones hand, and how you move can say a lot about you. Every conversation has a power differentiation. Nonverbal’s govern how people thin and feel about us. When you feel powerful you are more likely to participate more. when you fake power you start to feel more powerful. Don’t fake it till you make it make it, fake it till you BECOME it.

Try to avoid gossip,judgement negativity,excuses, exaggeration, and dogmatism. Hail Honesty Authenticity Integrity Love. Be careful of the way you say things. Move your voice down to your throat. Make sure you use camber and prosody but don’t use repetitive prosody. watch your pace, and use the right amount of silence. Don’t forget about pitch and volume too.

The missing piece of communication skills is vocal executive appearance. disconnect of choice of words and the way you say them. watch your vocal presence, find the way to say your words so that the audience can connect with them better. Don’t up speak, like ever.

 

0:45 Create a new sequence

0:55 Sequence presets

1:20 Import images

2:06 Image to fit the Program Panel

2:41 Resize panels

2:42 Make video tracks bigger (speed things up)

3:01 Select all image to import into timeline

3:26 Make all image 5 seconds long (Still Image Default Duration) (Set Frames to Seconds)

3:59 Delete and Reimport images into the timeline

5:45 How to make transitions

7:49 Default transitions

8:32 Embed music

9:56 Audio transitions

11:03 Match audio

12:00 Trim music

12:43 Animations with pictures

14:42 How to make a title

16:10 Exporting a video