Game reflection

Planning: (Complete before starting work)

To make my game I will need to watch the videos on how to make the game we are creating to make sure I know roughly what to do and how to do it. To get to these videos I will need to go onto ezone go down onto unit 1 and find a link that says ‘roll a ball tutorials’ and watch them all in order to get an idea of how to do it and what to do to make the final game. After watching these videos I will need to do some research on games and the history of them and upload that research page onto WordPress. Whilst doing this for the game I need to finish doing everything for the music video and podcast for the same deadline. For me to be able to finish this game making task I will need access to Unity, the programme we are using to make the game, I will need to make sure that I follow the tutorials to make sure I don’t go wrong anywhere and waste time trying to fix the problem which I wouldn’t have if I follow the videos. I will need to know how to use Unity whilst I am making the game. To make sure I can use Unity properly and well I might need to research how to use the programme and which button does what, what it is used for and how and when to use them. To make sure I finish this I need to make sure that I have done all the research before I start making the game and I will need to make sure that I save it properly so others can access it.

Research & Experimentation:

Before starting to do this task I will need to do some research about games. The research I will need to do is research what happened within the game genre during each decade starting from the 1950s up to 2011. I will need to know what games were made, how they made them and who made them. I will also need to find out if anything big happened or changed within those decades and include that in my research page. To find all of this information I will need to look on google. To do this task I used a few websites to get the information I needed to get:

Production:

Whilst I was making the video I came across a few difficulties, to begin with I missed a step to make the ball move so when I came to test the game the ball didn’t move at all. To fix this I had to start the video again and undo everything I had done so far to make sure I went back and done every step in that video to make sure the ball can move also to make sure I hadn’t missed any other step in that video. To make sure this doesn’t happen again I need to make sure I concentrate more whilst I’m watching the videos to make sure I don’t miss a step to finish  making the game. I also came across a problem where the script didn’t work even though it looked like it was the same as the one in the video. To fix this I double checked the script to make sure it was the same as the example one in the video, once I had checked the ball still wouldn’t work so I had to delete everything I had already done in that script and redo it all to make sure it was the same as the one in the example to make the game work. To make sure this doesn’t happen again I will need to make sure that I copy the video correctly and properly and then make sure I save it right.

Reflection:

Overall I am happy with the outcome of the game as it works properly and others can play it, also because this was the first game that I had made and I managed to finish making the game in time of the deadline. However I did want to make the game play area a different shape to make it more effective, I also wanted to put more collectables in the game play and in a different shape to make it harder to get them all. To actually make the game I use a programme called unity which had all of the things we needed on there to make and finish the game. I had to actually make it all and start from scratch and then make sure it all worked properly, also to make sure it was at a good standard for other to play and test out. Once I have finished making the game I will need to save it properly onto my memory stick and to make sure it is all saved on there properly so it is get able to for others. To then export it and able to upload it to WordPress I need to upload it to GoogleDrive the export it from there to be able to upload it onto WordPress.