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on September 23, 2021

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Game Brainstorm - My first few game ideas

While I've played literally hundreds of games over the years since I first started gaming, this was my first time coming up with game ideas by myself. It wasn't the easiest of tasks to begin with but I'm happy enough with what I thought of. My first idea would be to make a 3D math based platformer. Each level would consist of gaps and platforms to jump across. The playable character would have a number displayed above them that would update as you cross from platform to platform. The platform that the player jumps to would also have numbers on them as well as a mathematic symbol such as plus, minus, multiply or divide. The player would also see the target number at the top left of their screen. There would also be a timer running for approx 5 seconds to add a sense of urgency to the game and if the timer runs out the player would lose the level. Basically what I would be trying to create would be a game where the player solves math problems on the fly in order to advance t...

Unity Tutorial 03

This week in Unity was a challenging one to say the least. While initially the concepts explored were the same (e.g. placing objects on the stage, linking scripts to objects in the hierarchy and writing basic C# code segments) suddenly the difficulty ramped up and I was learning about prefabs, out of bounds objects and random positions. The funny thing is that while almost all of that was new to me I found it easy enough to follow along with as long as I paid attention to the tutorial. I wouldn't say I'm a fan of using Unity yet but I'm liking that the code is beginning to make more sense to me and the workspace actually does seem familiar now. However having said all that there was one issue I ran into twice that almost made me lose my mind. When using the random method in one of my C# scripts for spawning animals in random positions, I got the following error: " 'Random is is ambiguous reference between 'Unity.Random' and 'System.Random' " ...

Game Idea Research - My mechanics for my educational game

Following on from the game brainstorming session I did last week, this week I have decided to research one of my game ideas in greater detail. The game I will be researching for this blog post is the math based platformer gamer. I have yet to come up with a title for this potential game but hopefully a few ideas will come to me while researching it today! As I mentioned in my last blog post, my initial concept of game mechanics for this game would be as stated below. "Each level would consist of gaps and platforms to jump across. The playable character would have a number displayed above them that would update as you cross from platform to platform. The platforms that the player jumps to would also have numbers on them as well as a mathematic symbol such as plus, minus, multiply or divide. The player would also see the target number at the top left of their screen. There would also be a timer running for approx 5 seconds to add a sense of urgency to the game and if the...

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