Nate Multimedia Blog

After last weeks update on my game, I feel the progress is decent, yet I have felt it has slowed down or stifled a bit, though som progress has been made too. Building the levels is working out fine, using 3-D shapes helps create a unique level but finding a way to make it different all the time can be something to overcome each time. I have found a character model on the asset store that suits the tone and genre of game and enemies as well but trying to make the player model move and have a 3rd person camera is proving challenging too.  Overall the game is progressing ok but I still need to work on certain aspects which are important.

This week, again we had to proceed with more unity tutorials to help progress with creating the game on unity. This week im still following Jimmy Vegas' unity tutorials. Specifically, the platformer tutorial series he provides on his youtube channel, which as I have said in the past tutorial blog posts, this benefits me as I am currently creating a simple platform game. Tutorial Sky box and Sound FX For this unity tutorial, it exactly does as it says on the tin. The video in question helps to go through how to implement these features. For the skybox, we import assets we want to create the sky. This part shows how to add textures onto the skybox (or backdrop) to make the game look more visually interesting and tie into the look and theme of your game. Then the tutorial also goes through how to implement sound effects into the game, the specific sound effect is picking up a gem in game. I find this tutorial decent to follow, I do find myself pausing and rewinding back through a s...