Game Design: Journal

  Week 1:

Introduction to the course and briefing on assignments. Showcase example games of previous student and get to play their games on the design school website.

Games showcase: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmFJrRBAyPs&list=PLZXlN49OF94rXaJS2Pz0x9cM0HQqsqKdB&index=2

Play-test: https://thedesignschool.taylors.edu.my/gamezone/

Week 2: 

Lecture1: Game development components

1. Game Design: requires artistic and technical competence, game art, game technology as well as writing skills.

(Documentation)

(a) Story: basic storyline as a guidance for user to frame the game

exposition-> conflict-> climax-> resolution

(b) Game play: 1)challenge- make game difficulty to archive 

                          2)strategy- develop to navigate through difficult situations

                          3)chance- prolong the life of the player (additional game life/ time increases/ special weapon)

                          4)choice- [most common in RPG game] giving players dialog (interact with NPC) choice.

                          5)luck- elements that help the outcome of the players.

2. Game Art

3. Game Technology

Lecture2: Game ideas

Method:

    1) brainstorming

    2) brainwriting 6-3-5

    3) scamper - substitute, combine, adapt, modify, put to another use, eliminate, reverse

    4) 3(I)

Class activity is to brainstorm a game idea in a group of 5 with several inspiration games and get to present it during the class. 

Presentation slide: https://www.canva.com/design/DAFf9_vtcIE/HVnUVqjuTnt_c4xvbFFM6w/edit?utm_content=DAFf9_vtcIE&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=sharebutton

Week 3:

Public holiday (Hari Raya)

Week 4:

Finally Unity!!!

briefing in Unity workplace

Insert object to the workplace

Check the object position in X,Y, and Z axis

Object position can be reset under the menu of inspector. Object can be inserted as game elements such as character, ground. For the character we can apply a component to it to make it falls by gravity.

The 'gravity' on character

The 'gravity' on the ground

After applying those components to the objects, we can make a simple seesaw game upon the physical theory. To make the red ball shoot, we have to change the mass of the object as well.

seesaw game

Next, we build a new scene to apply some script. In this tutorial, we learnt how to control our game character to move up, down, left, right with our keyboard.

script to move

The public float declaration in the scripts make us easier to adjust our data of our character movement.

public float

Another script component we learn is to code a ground trigger to detect either the object on the ground or not. Empty object is created and inspector tag are added.

ground trigger code

Week 5

Wesak Holiday

Week 6

Online class

Week 7

No classes, continue with our group assignment

Week 8

Independent Learning week 

Submitted our game prototype

Link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1U0pqdu4aYZ8qwa8RPkWotteRvHKYvPYV?usp=share_link

Week 9 - Week 12

Working on Final game

https://tutorialexercise.blogspot.com/2023/04/game-design-document.html