Week-1 studio starts off

For this week we have formed our groups & are working on our game idea, at the moment we have 3 programmers and one game designer. The game idea we want to go for is simple this time as we would not want to repeat the mistakes we made last semester, another mistake we are going to try & avoid is trying to get animators early on so that we can have the models by week six.

Another this we have done is started on pre-production & our blogs in week 1 itself which would make sure we can start production early on and deliver a higher quality project for studio showcase.

We had a good enough presentation as our game idea is very simple & we got a green light for our project which means we are clear to proceed without the project, for the rest of the week we are going to be working on some feedback given to us during our presentation.

Also one of our team members wants to move to the other team which is unfair as we now only have two programmers and the other team has three, after some discussions with staff it was decided that our group can get help from other semesters which made it fairer to our team but I personally see it as a benefit as a smaller team can achieve much more.

I will be setting some goals wherein I will be doing one learning outcome per week from week two onwards to make sure my outcomes are done before week 12. Another goal sticking more to testing my mechanics more thoroughly in order to make sure my code works consistently and coherently, another thing I will be focusing on in my code will be to simplify my code as some of the feedback I got last semester was the I wrote overcomplicated code.

We had an error with bitbucket which seems to be related to the source itself, the photon code throws errors when I pulled from out new repo. To overcome this issue I looked into the problem and found that it is because I needed to download it manually from the asset store which fixed the multiple errors in the projects.

Over the weekend I worked on some basic movement code utilizing velocity which is added to the rigid body, this is a much cleaner way to the movement as it is easy to use with getAxis. The rotating is just using a look at which is used to rotate towards the mouse position and since it’s top down the position to look at is calculated by taking the top. The code is attached below.

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