Slide show documenting personal experience in creating a game with the unity platform

1. Game Development
Chloe Choi
December, 2015

2. National High School Game Academy
Summer 2015 Pre-College Program in Carnegie Mellon
Six weeks learning about
game design, 2D and 3D art,
sound design, and programming
The last 2 weeks making total of two games
using Unity, a game development platform

3. Mobile Game Development Project
Development Platform Language
A team consisting of
2 artists, 2 programmers,
and a sound designer
2 weeks given

4. About Unity
cross-platform game engine developed by Unity Technologies
used to develop video games for PC, consoles, mobile devices
and websites
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_(game_engine)

5. MonoBehaviour, the Base Class
• The base class every script derives from.
• In C#, you must explicitly derive from the class MonoBehaviour.
• It is important to override suitable “messages” so that the game
can operate as planned.
• http://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/MonoBehaviour.html

6. Tortoise Hg
• First time to use a repository in order to co-work with others
and share the artifacts.
• Remarks
 We needed to communicate
before pushing changes.
 It is comfortable to use
when working properly.
 However, experienced
many conflicts.

7. Project Procedure
Brainstorm ideas Sketch each scene/characters
Artists created scene/character.
Programmers began coding main functions/actions.
Art and code put together.
Our team had a poster with task that needed to be completed and fixed.
Test Make game more playable and smooth
Polish
Continue developing

8. Output
2D Unity Project
Sound files
36 scripts
Image files

9. 36 classes / Main class: PlayerMovement.cs
Source Code Repository
This is a part of our assets folder.
As you can see organization is encouraged when working with
many files and lots of people.
Output - Scripts

10. Image/sound files
How the assets folder looks inside Unity
Output – Media Files

11. Image files for opening scene to game
A sequence of image files when the game starts
Output – Image Sequence

12. Dream Moor - Game Story
An orphan named Piper dreams
about a magical place called the
Dream Moor. There, she gets to
escape the harsh reality.
However, when enemies start
attacking her and she loses health,
the dream slowly turns into a
nightmare. Piper needs to collect the
last idol before she wakes up from
her dream.
Piper
Enemy

13. Piper loses all her healthPiper has to collect all four idols
scattered around the maze.
Inventory : Bunny bear elephant princess
Win Lose
Health Bar

14. Screen-shot 1
A simple menu screen

15. Screen-shot 2
Opening scene when game starts

16. Screen-shot 3
A look at the tutorial stage of the game

17. Screen-shot 4
In-game look at the enemy called Hexapod

18. Remarks (1/3)
• First-time Game Development
As this was the first time I programmed for a game, I
learned a lot through the process.
Collaborating together

19. Remarks (2/3)
• Emphases
I wish I understood the importance of
 keeping track of all the code,
 keeping a list of what is done and what isn’t
 and the proper way to use the repository before I began the
project.
TO-DO
AS-IS Repository
usage

20. Remarks (3/3)
• Learning Through Trial and Error
 For example, when creating obstacles,
 I originally programmed each tree and shrub as its
own object which increased storage by a lot and
caused the player to get stuck.
 I found out a more easier way to do this was create
a transparent box and layer the sprite.
gettyimages.com

21. The game development process was difficult and
the initial attempt was not as good as I had expected.
However, the experience gained from this project
will help me on my next.