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Dillon Eagers Project week 9

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I unfortunately do not have a alpha stage for this assignment complete yet as I have been struggling extremely with the Unity program to make my game as I have stated in previous project blogs, However I do feel with the work I have done this week to correct this error below that I will honestly have much better progress with the Unity stage in the coming weeks up to deadline.

Whats working and what I am finding difficult

While working on this assignment I feel that the following things have been working for me quite well overall these include.

• Keeping up with the weekly blogs each week both with submitting them on time and assuring they have the content required in order to complete the task.
• I have been looking at ways t simplify my unity problem through YouTube tutorials n things such as environment design and character design as well as how to things on unity like manipulate shapes and sizes.
• Having finally sketched out concepts for things to make in unity such as the prototypes I have been struggling to produce the past few weeks.
• Keeping up on the feedback from the lecturer weekly through audio messages to see were I can improve overall.
• Looking at other medias for inspiration such as films/ game franchises and peoples opinions on the game design industry

However I do also feel there is things in which I need to improve on such as

• Making the environment in unity for my game or at least prototypes
• Making the characters for my game or at least prototypes
• Making buildings for my games village
• making a swan ( antagonist for the game)
• Making objects( such as lamp posts, ice cream cones for power ups etc) for the game or at least prototypes
• Trying to do the weekly extra credit stuff to get my marks up a little
• Doing mst of my blogs at the start of the week to have more free time to work on things later in the week( although I feel I am improving a lot on this one point.)

I have started focusing more on Unity and have even drawn up sketch concepts n what I am going to make for my game these include the following items.

1. The games map: I figure the best way for me to position everything was to make a map of how the layout could look with some planning from an overhead perspective. This sketch concept can be seen below.
   
2. Character design: This was the best way fr me to make my characters (police officer one, police officer 2 and the antagonist the swans) design using shapes to form their body features. This sketch can be seen below if you are curious how it looked.
   
3. Building designs:In order to make the village look like it has more variety when it comes to its architecture I added 6 concept for building designs using common shapes I can easily find and use on unity such as squares, triangles and circles. These images can be seen below.
   
   
   
   
4. Objects/ Possible obstacles: These sketches I did up were of things I could add to the map to add variety and to give the world more character. these included lamp posts, ice cream cone designs for power ups to match the cornetto joke from the movie and parking stops for cars to add more design to the empty sidewalks of the city. These concept sketches can be seen below.
   
5. Textures for items on map:The final thing that I considered was textures I could add to my games map such as the following

• Tarmac texture for roads
• Cobblestone texture for pathways and sidewalks
• Grass textures for parks, fields and gardens
• fence textures for walls, fences
• Water textures for ponds

All of these textures can be seen in the image below this text.

Meeting My Targets

I feel with making these concept sketches for how I can make realistic things in Unity in the time I still have left, that it has given me plenty of ideas to work with for the next few weeks and although I am nervous about continuing to use the Unity program I like that I have a more solid and realistic  game plan and can start working from what I have produced from this and to hopefully add more in from my previous blogs game ideas such as sound etc. 

Conclusion

I feel I have a lot of work in the coming weeks particularly in unity , but also feel if i stay up to date with my blogs , as well as start building my items in unity that it will pay off overall in the long run.

I hope you all enjoyed reading my project post week and am looking forward to receiving some more feedback overall.