Tech Task: Spotify Playlist

 

First Playable

 In this week's prototype, I focused more on the scripts and making the Truck move instead of just trying to add good visuals and colors. I followed unit 1 in the unity tutorials we did in the first couple of weeks since unit one is pretty much similar to my game. I added the scripts, which are the Follow Player and the Player Controller. The Truck moves forward with the "W" key and left and right using the arrow keys. I added also the roadblocks; however, I am having difficulties in getting them to work as I want because I want them to block the car by staying in their place but when I start the game they just disappear. This is how my game looks so far nothing was changed from last week except I just added these rocks.

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Unity Tutorial 07

 This week's unity tutorials were interesting. I have started understanding how to add scripts to the players, how to make the objects like the sphere move; however, I am still confused in the coding and what exactly should I write because it is hard to figure out the code my myself without any help. These tutorials can help me in my prototype when I start adding objects like roadblocks to the road as obstacles to the game that the truck or the player has to avoid so as to not lose the game. The coding needs a little bit of practice since as I mentioned that I can't figure out the script without help because it is complicated. This unit is not as hard as the others since it is focused on the script and what could be written for the movements of the spheres or the objects added. I had difficulty while adding the code because whenever I write something wrong I start reading the script from the beginning and comparing it to the tutorial until I find the problem or the issue and sometimes even I spend thirty minutes to find the problem because it is really confusing. That is the worst thing because if you wrote something wrong, the game will not play.

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Game Fun

 In this week's reading task, I have learnt about the fun part in a game. There are different types of fun that make the game enjoyable and creates an engagement with the people playing it. Making the game challenging add fun to the game. For example, as the video I watched mentioned that Tic Tac Toe is not a fun game because there aren't challenges or things to predict; however, games that involves shooting makes it fun since the player can start engaging with it and think about the next move before shooting.

Fun Game Theory

Links to resources:

1.  https://game-studies.fandom.com/wiki/A_Theory_of_Fun_for_Game_Design
2. https://youtu.be/78rPt0RsosQ
   
3. https://www.raphkoster.com/gaming/gdco12/Koster_Raph_Theory_Fun_10.pdf