David Monteleone, Week 6 Journal PPJ, Blog post 6, GMAP 378

Content with Hours (Examples included):

                This week was rather busy. First, I was tasked with making sure each game is now using Angela’s new UI. This was a tag team effort between Ryan and me. I placed the correct prefabs into each game and stripped out the old UI. The UI included the use of a timer. This timer shows an alien ship abducting a human. In order for each game to use this I had to going into the code for the timers in the games and strip out old code related to the old timer used. This process was quite tedious and difficult for some games. Space Aim had 4 timers in different places, thus I had to remove 3 of them and rework 1 of them! The only games I didn’t need to touch much were Abducktion, G-Switch, and Draw at Noon as Ryan did those himself. Next, I went through and added the updated model and texture for the water gun into Water Gun. Then I added in a sound effect to Water Gun so that players have a feedback for when they hit the target. Ryan made a simple to use script that displays the score earned and makes a sound. I added this to Press and Water Gun so that there is visual and audible feedback for scoring in those games.

 (3.25 hrs)

                My next task after doing the previous ones was to work on the Quiz game grey box. For the game idea I went ahead and played off of the crazy alien world we had already made. The game presents yes or no questions to the humans. Answering the question right gives them points, but answering incorrectly shakes the motion base. I made a pool of questions along with answers and randomly select one question each time the game is played. The ‘A’ button is for ‘yes’ and the ‘B’ button is for ‘no’. I was able to get a working grey box with score and timing, but there is no sound in it yet (apart from the background sound). An image of the game can be seen below:

(3 hrs)

Content Positive (Duplicate hours from above):

-          The new UI along with game code that can interact with the timer has been added. Sound effects were also added to Press and Water Gun.  (3.25 hrs)

-          The Quiz Game grey box has been made. (3 hrs)

Content Negative

-          Bad timer code from last term haunted me this week.

Total Hours for the week: 6.25 hrs