As we approach the end of this week, this wraps up our inaugural dive into Unity. I have now, metaphorically, “dipped my toes” into the tides of game development in Unity, and the water feels … nice \ud83d\ude42 . <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Using Unity feels like a breath of fresh air. After only working in IDEs and code for so long, it was invigorating to use a very high-level, sophisticated, and graphical tool that also gives the developer some control by writing their own code scripts. The way Unity set up their framework to facilitate this is impressive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This first week of development was a good chance for all of our team members to start experimenting and playing around in Unity. I’m confident that we all learned a lot in such a short amount of time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In my own personal attempt at developing a prototype for our Breakout game, I have been able to set up all the necessary game pieces. I have bricks that are different colors, and each color has a different point value. I might have worked ahead and implemented a scoring system, but it’s a very rough prototype and needs a lot more mesh rendering and polish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We have a meeting this week to demo each of our individual prototypes and decide what direction we want to take this project. I would also like to implement the concept of limited number of lives, a menu screen, and a game over screen before we demo our projects. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I also need to research how to change to different scenes so that we can start developing new levels, and how to implement ML-Agents in Unity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It also doesn’t help that I needed to do some last-minute traveling for some things that came up at my job. Luckily, I reached out to the team about my situation and they were understanding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Working on the weekend, like usual.” -Drake<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ciao.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As we approach the end of this week, this wraps up our inaugural dive into Unity. I have now, metaphorically, “dipped my toes” into the tides of game development in Unity, and the water feels … nice \ud83d\ude42 . Using Unity feels like a breath of fresh air. After only working in IDEs and code … <\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/5511\/files\/2022\/04\/GameScene-ML-Breakout-Capstone-PC-Mac-Linux-Standalone-Unity-2020.3.32f1-Personal-Personal-Metal-2022-04-14-18-26-54-1024x666.png\")