Christoffer Persson
Gameplay Programmer
The Deer Game
Project Info
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4-5 Weeks
Unity
Introduction
This was my first ever solo game project in the Unity engine created as part of my Unity course during my second year at Pauliskolan Gymnasium which took me about 4-5 weeks to complete. The Deer Game is a top down 3D game where the goal is to collect pickups to earn points while avoiding obstacles and animals that try to damage you.
Gameplay
Movement
The movement for the deer was made using AddForce which would cause an acceleration effect to mimic a real deer where the longer it runs a certain direction, the faster it goes.
Screen Bound
I decided to bound the deer to the screen by limiting its transform.position where as soon as it reaches either the most top of the screen or the most bottom it would not be able to move further.
Health and Score
The player’s health and score are stored in variables on the player that update every tick. Collisions determine changes where the pickups increase score, while enemy hits decrease health.
UI
HUD Changes
The player's HUD changes depending of what happens during gameplay. Since there is 2 varibles on the player i just make sure to change these when approprite.
Player Health
To calcuate the health i just take the current health variable and subtract the damage taken and then update the health bar. The healthbar is just a progress bar that updates to the max health subracted by damage taken.
Player Score
To calcuate score I just display the "Current Score" variable next to the "Score:" text and update it when the value changes.
Christoffer Persson
Gameplay Programmer