They say to write what you know. In this case, I created a game about the stresses of meeting deadlines. This is my second try at coding a game, so I thought, “Maybe this will be easier.” Yes, you can laugh. I deserve it. I did manage to get the game to work, and ironically, past its deadline (don’t tell the professor).

Things I was able to do:

• Made a little arcade game.
  • Created all assets with just the basic shapes in Unity.
  • Made prefabs for the first time.
  • Scripted for multiple objects to instantiate at random locations.
  • Scripted for multiple objects to drop on their own.
  • Scripted for multiple objects to destroy at the bottom of the screen.
  • Scripted for player to move from side-to-side.
  • Scripted for player to know if it touched objects and destroy them.
  • Scripted a scoring system that allowed player to accrue and lose points.
  • Created a winner scene for when player total is 10.
  • Created confetti using particle systems for the first time.
  • Added original and revised Web, Mac and Windows builds to the website.
• Built my itch.io page.
  • Designed a repeating wallpaper featuring the object icons.
  • Created an animated banner for game page and mini-title for main page.
  • Uploaded demo to YouTube and linked to game page.
  • Added a screenshot to game page.

Problems fixed:

• I could not get the scoring system to work. Used the debug log to find out that it was because the player wasn’t even hitting the object.
• Took a few days but finally got the player to acknowledge the object. It turns out that the script wanted me to say “Object(Clone)” instead of “Object”. There was also a mistake in my code that Plushie Castle was nice enough to point out to me.

Problems that still need fixing:

• Still having trouble figuring out how to anchor my text so that it won’t move into an awkward space at different aspects.

Stretch goals:

• Would like to have a little text appear near the object showing what’s happening to the point total.
• Would like to make use of the bed and coffee icon and maybe have a health score system.
• Would like to have this level be timed so that you get a grade depending on how many papers player gets after 2 minutes.
• Would like to have the winner scene text change depending on what player score is.
• Would like to create a Finals level where it’s more like Pong and the player has to hit the paper into the website logo.
• Would like the Pong level objects to affect player speed instead of taking off points.