Earth Being-More | ronaldvan

Earth Being

Planning & Research

For the project, I didn't have any idea what I was planning to make since I wasn't certain how well I would make it.
At the time, Cuphead just came out and I was wanting to use that game as a point of focus for what I wanted to make.
For research, I try to find games that had primarily boss fights and platforming shooters as their genre or concept of the game.
The way I started planning for this project was that I drew a bunch of things that I wanted the game to have.
I kind of story-boarded what the game's levels would be like and what kind of creatures would the player encounter throughout the game.

Development Background

I worked on this project without regards on scope and so I put myself in a spot where the game was too ambitious to make.
At the same time, I was making this game with a decent amount of knowledge on Unity but I needed time to learn more with Unity.
With so little time for development, I wasn't able to fully get everything I wanted to make done so I decided to keep the game as one type of level.
I also had very little knowledge of AI so I ended up making very little and simple enemies in the game.

Challenges

This was my first project where I get to design my own game in Unity and it was part of my first 2D digital game design class.
I had other classes that started eating at my time to learning Unity and developing in it.
I was busy focusing on animations and art to make the game look better.
The game was missing the challenges or the tensions that makes the player feel motivated to attack the enemies or move forward.

Lessons Learned

I learned to do some of the stuff in Unity that I haven't touched on before from another previous class that taught us Unity.
In order to do better, I needed to come up with a design that is quick and simple but also isn't going to take more time to implement it into the game.
I now know that arts and animations don't make up the design of the game but should help covey what the world is about which I haven't gotten to that level or had the time in doing that kind of thing yet.
The missing challenges/tensions helped me contemplate on future projects when I need to come up with things that gets players to be motivated to play and move through the game.