MelonGames

When designing the UI flow I wanted to keep it as simple as possible with as little buttons as possible. When creating the UI in the game I encountered an unknown problem with returning to the menu after winning. This error didn’t occur when you lost even though it is the same button. When clicking the return button Unity would crash for no apparent reason. To fix this I changed how some of the logic surrounding the timer worked and switched to a while loop instead of a for loop.

IEnumerator timer() {        //yield return new WaitForSeconds(180.0f);        while(time > 0) {            if(gameOver == false) {                time --;                yield return new WaitForSeconds(1.0f);

               timeLeft.text = time.ToString();            } else {                time = 0;            }        }

hen designing the layout of the scene there wasn’t any particular order as to where the houses went, my main focus with the design was making look like an actual Wild West settlement.

With the houses alone the scene has no story to it, I added in some crates, barrels, graves, a hay bale, a cart and some cacti. The combination of all the items really brought the scene to life.

I short tutorial that introduces the players into the game in a short and memorable way is what I originally wanted, but considering the simple nature of the scene and the simple mechanics that come along with it I thought a simple introduction screen would be the best way to go.

Using the Wanted Posters allowed me to make sure the players were exploring the whole of the scene. A time limit of 3 minutes was decided on as this would mean players who did not have any clue as to where the posters were would have a challenge in completing it in time.

I chose a design for one of the houses that would allow me to put one of the posters in a slightly harder to reach position. It quickly became apparent that there is a chance that the player would not be able to see the poster and therefore not know to look there. To solve this issue I put a house opposite it which would allow the player to see the poster from an easy location.

Here are the 2 chosen designs.

The initial concept for my street scene was that the player would walk down a spooky western street where they would encounter ghosts and other supernatural occurrences as they explore the street. The street would look like a regular wild west town but as the user approaches houses, and other key points, the scene will become dark and spooky.

I had kept this concept until I had finished designing and modeling the first house. After finishing the first house I discovered how big of a task this concept would be as I would be effectively creating 2 sets of everything for the scene.

I had a bug where the 2 tanks inventories were linked somehow, I found the origin of the bug to be in the following code.

for (int i = 0; i < inventory.Count; i++) {           inventory[i] = database.items[i];           UpdateUI(); } 

The bug was being caused by the items in each inventory being the items that were in the database, so adding one to the amount added it to all of them as they were the same object just being stored in 3 locations.

To fix this bug I used the following code instead.

for (int i = 0; i < inventory.Count; i++) {            Item tempItem = new Item();            tempItem.amount = database.items[i].amount;            tempItem.itemDesc = database.items[i].itemDesc;            tempItem.itemIcon = database.items[i].itemIcon;            tempItem.itemID = database.items[i].itemID;            tempItem.itemName = database.items[i].itemName;            tempItem.itemType = database.items[i].itemType;

           inventory[i] = tempItem;            UpdateUI();        }

Throughout the complex I wanted the player to be able to get a feeling for where they are and how close they were to the end by their surroundings. A big part of what impression is given is down to the colours of the surroundings.

For example at the beginning I want the player to be able to tell they are in some sort of futuristic lab complex. The colours I chose to five this impression are White (#FFFFFF), Grey (#AEAEAE) and Blue (#66A3FF) as these colours are usually associated with futuristic places and labs. The main colour will be White, the lights will also reflect this colour choice by giving off a clinical white light. Grey and Blue will be used for objects such as doors and control panels.