Over the past few weeks my team and I have been working on developing a prototype for our game project. I am hesitant to even call it a prototype because it is far from being a functional game. In fact, we weren\u2019t even working on the same code! We decided to use this opportunity as a spike, to generate some answers to questions that should be figured out before we move into full development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We each started developing on different versions of Unity because we wanted to evaluate the support and difficulty involved in integrating VR into a Unity project. What we have found so far, is that there is not a lot of difference in the work involved, but the newest version of Unity does seem to have more support than other versions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For most of our team, this is the first time we have used Unity. I can\u2019t speak for anyone else, but it is definitely the first time I have used C#. I knew it would be a bit of an uphill battle to get over the learning curve, and I am sure I am still not over it yet, but the development so far has been okay. I have run into many instances of silly mistakes on my part, such as changing the name of a variable in one place, but not everywhere, causing my code to fail. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I spent hours trying to figure out what was wrong, assuming there was something wrong with my approach, or some setting in Unity was not configured correctly. I had assumed that my code was definitely not the problem, but you know what they say about assuming things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So, ultimately, using Unity has been very time consuming for very little payoff, but most of that is my own fault. I was an odd mixture of intimidated by the new tool and over-confident in my own programming skills. So I searched for the solutions in all the wrong places when it really was the need to go back to basics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ultimately, I like Unity. I see that it can make certain portions of the project very easy to implement and I am excited for the work to be done in this next term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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