Fun and happiness are pretty subjective feelings, meaning that they are often caused by different things for different people. …
Often called Quick-Time Events (QTEs), challenges within a limited time duration usually involve the player reacting to and/or performing certain actions before a timer runs out or the opportunity is missed.
QTEs or time challenges often involve some or all of the following:
A material property created by the springy/elastic nature of a material. Elastic materials are able to redirect the velocity of an object they make contact with, while retaining more of the initial speed than a non-elastic object.
The exposure or vulnerability to harm or risk. Simply put, it’s something often better to avoid in order to get the best outcome.
But games, especially video games, are not reality and generally pose no actual danger to players.
Like weight, danger can be expressed in video games in a…
How heavy something is. Sure.
The force generated by the gravitational attraction of the earth on an object. Ok.
Unlike reality, to convey weight (or anything else) in a game, you need to individually consider and create each element of the thing you want to convey. Because a digital object…
Basically, anything that doesn’t fit into the other common categories, including but not limited to, art, audio, mechanics, etc. It could be called similar to design, and is affected by all of these things.
The simple answer: How it feels to play the game/How you feel about/when playing the game.
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In this project, I needed a way for the guards to walk back and forth along a predefined route which included n-number of mid-points at which the guard would pause. …
I recently completed a short 3D top-down stealth game project, called The Great Fleece, as part of my current GameDevHQ course. This was a solo project in which I coded all the game systems from scratch (apart from Unity’s inbuilt Navigation system).
The 3D models were created by GameDevHQ for…
Games of a medium or large size often contain a lot of stuff in the game scene, and that can take time to load. To avoid the player watching that, let’s make a nice loading screen.
Today’s Objective: Create a nice loading screen which shows loading progress and some nice…
Today’s Objective: Create a Game Manager to manage the game data and functions which are used by multiple parts of the game.
Game Managers are commonly created using the Singleton design pattern, since there is usually only one of them, and it allows them to be accessed from almost anywhere…
