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Design that sells. 🚀

Just wrapped up this landing page concept for a premium tech brand. ✅ Soft gradients ✅ Clean product cards ✅ High-conversion CTAs

Google’s iconic "G" gets a gradient glow-up after a decade!

So, friends and acquaintances...I have news for you.

The game is complete! Well, the prototype is and though it was a short rollarcoster ride, it was still a rollarcoaster ride nonetheless! I had an incredible time making this demo and though there are many many things I wish I had had the time to clean up, I am still satisfied with the result and the visual appeal of it all. To finish off I created a title scene for it, oddly enough creating the button was the hardest part of it since I couldn’t quite figure out what was meant to be plugged into where, as well as the fade animation I had for it kept looping...I couldn’t quite find a way to correct this so instead i just extended the animation duration by a minute.

For some odd reason, it will not let me add a title to this but here we have it, my final and (favorite) mechanic. The Death Light (well, that’s not actually what it’s called.) In actuality, it’s called the security surveillance camera that’s patrolling this entire area and as our player is a known escapee with people after him, if he’s caught in the light, he’s dead. Above is a video of the first version of the light moving, I had to animate it using key frames and it worked wonderfully, however I realized it was too fast for our boy to outrun and it went through dramatic changes. The biggest change was removing that rock wall in avour of something a little stonehedge looking but that looks like as if it’s been put there by man to aid in their construction tasks (brick piles, above and below, a plank to transfer such heavy bricks up on top of the rock.) Th reason for doing this was both for design as well as to give him something to hide under while the light passes over this. This was initially inspired by a scene form inside where a similar if not the exact same mechanic was used but by a different type of machine:

Today we added a bulk of the mechanics the boy will be interacting with. We started with writing down the basic code for the boy to push and pull objects, even if he isn’t doing the animations for it, he’s at least triggered by the pressing of two keys at once which is exactly what we want; arrow key + Left Crtl button to interact with and move objects. The process involved lots of trigger spheres and separate box colliders, I’ve also found quite a few faults within the process of pushing a box over and standing on it as either he will slip off of it if not placed correctly or pushed properly, or he will end up pushing the rock out of place WHILE pushing it down which results in it not being able to fall down because the boy is out of the trigger area. To resolve the latter from happening, I increased the trigger area as well as the box collider so he will have no choice but to be within the trigger area as well be able to walk across it and not die!

The second task that came with this was having him actually look as if he’s pushing and pulling things rather than walking straight into it. This was relatively easier to do than the first task, quite simply all that needed to be done was trigger the animations in the pushPull section of our code.

The final task we accomplished today was the ladder. Ah, the ladder- there were many doubts about adding the ladder in to the prototype given the time constraints we were facing but without it, it made for a rather awkward transition upward to the next level of ground he needed to be at. So we decided to throw in our ladder except, instead of having him climb like  a normal being our player has to suffer a tiny bit and hop up the ladder every step of the way until he meets ground. On the bright side, he doesn’t die if he falls off!