It’s been a while since my last update. Things on the game front have been moving along fairly nicely although building the models is rather more taxing than I thought it would be. My relationship with Blender is a bit of a love/hate thing. SO much seems counter intuitive but it’s clearly such a powerful…
Category: Development
Arg… the loop
Getting the map to loop has been a massive pain. To be specific, instantly transporting the player from one end to the other is easy, it’s filling in the blanks at each end with a view from soon to be reached other end that is the problem. So far the best solution I’ve come up…
Unity Health Bar Slider
This took me way longer to discover than I thought it would. I’d implemented a UI Slider to display health (actually I’m using it as a fuel gauge but the principle remains the same) which worked fine but I wanted to change the colour as the players health/fuel reduced, and then flash if perilously low.…
Update to Map Creation
Putting basic blocks onto the map generated by the map creator turned out to be pretty simple. Essentially, all that is necessary is to instantiate a prefab at the location defined by the array (in coordinate multiples of 10 in my case due to the block sizes) and this is the result. The trees were…
First Steps into Game Making
Procrastination is a hell of a thing. Although I’ve spent periods of the last year trying to learn Unity and C#, much more was spent on Reddit. A few weeks ago, however, I managed to kick myself out of that cycle and start work on my first game. The game in question is essentially a…