Aeron Stockwell

Second Level in the Space Game

Second level has been completed and added, along with the first power source you find. You cant pick up as of yet because there isn’t a third level attached to the trigger. The second level itself is a jumping puzzle. Lets see if you can solve it.

Questions:

What do you think of the improved animations? (Left idle, etc)

What would you suggest I add for puzzles later on in the game?

What do you think of the progression in level design?

Animation Tutorial

Below are pictures to my process in creating sprite animations in unity with captions to help you step by step. I made my sprites in adobe illustrator and photoshop. Keep in mind that you need to save copies of the files as illustrator, photoshop, and .png files just in case you need to edit, or reuse the files. Click on the photos for a full view of the screen.

be sure to save this to a safe file by clicking the three circles under location

Find the location of the files that you will use as a sprite. They need to be saved as .png files.

select them all by clicking on them all once while holding the control key

once selected, drag them into the gray space below. This is your unity assets folder.

once you have that done you need to open the sprites by clicking the arrows on the side of each picture.

then select the inside box ( the darker one) and click create, and go down to animation.

next you want to name your animation. I named mine Anim 1 to keep it simple

then select the gray box sprites again, right click, select create, and then go down to controller. Name it the same as the animation to keep things organized.

double click the controller. Now you should be in the controller window

Drag the animation into the controller window.

Then in the right hand window (inspector) find the box that’s labeled loop time. This will make the animation continue to play.

move the first light gray sprite into the scene window by clicking and dragging it.

Finally you need to double click your sprite to enter the sprite inspector window (right hand side of the screen). Once you have the window open, drag the controller into the lower half of the inspector window. After that just press play and the sprite will begin to move.

Second Game Beta

Space Build 3

This is my second space build.

Controls are the left, right, and up arrows

Keep in mind that this is a puzzle game, so the exit may be hard to get to.

Also there are no deaths, respawns, or exits as of now because I am currently working on them.

Questions:

What do you think about the new stability of the game, and animations?
How could I make the game a bit more fluid besides an intro screen and tutorial?
What was the hardest thing about the room?
Was it to hard to figure out for a first attempt?

Space Beta

Space Build 2_Data

Survey

What do you think about the mechanics in the game so far?
What do you feel needs to be added before moving on with the building process?
Do you feel that the animations are fluid enough for a first test?

Clean Energy

There weren’t very many things that I was able to find that related my project out there on the web; which is promising, but also a bit of a letdown. However, I was able to find one article on the Forbes website about a game called “Path to Luma”. This game is about a robot that travels to abandoned planets in search for life giving forces, and hidden clean energy sources.

info sources below:

http://www.thepathtoluma.com/home/

http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidewalt/2015/09/15/path-to-luma-clean-energy-fueled-by-a-video-game/#693211f53a88