Templates

• Project Proposal Document Template

Tutorials & Guides

• 2D Tile Map Basics

Tips & Tricks

• Exporting ONLY the Assets from your current scene

Hi Concept:
(1 sentence description of game)

Game Features:
(List of 5-10 features, such as:
- multiplayer
- 2d platform environment
- players can wall jump
- players absorb enemy abilities to traverse levels)

Story Summary:
(Should be 2-3 pages briefly explaining the world, main characters, and plot)

Gameplay Mechanics:
(This should be a list of how the player will interact in your game. examples may be, Left stick moves, A fires, Y jumps, etc.)
(This should also include any combo attacks or if you have a charge ability. Anything the player can input to create an action should be listed here.)
(This should also have a list of any puzzles, npc vendors, anything the player can interact with...)

Target Demographic, Platform, and ESRB Rating:
(Demographic = Who is this game intended for, who would enjoy this? A racing game would be geared toward car enthusiasts. Arcade games may be geared toward casual gamers.)
(Platform = PC, Xbox, Playstation, Nintendo, etc)
(ESRB Rating = T for Teens, E for Everyone, etc. more information can be found at:
ESRB.org
)

Product Competition:
(3-5 item list of similar games that have been released or will be released within the year, which would be considered competition to your sales)

Future Development:
(If successful, do you plan to release DLC? Will there be a sequel? Will there be updates and bug support?)

F.A.Q.:
(This should be a list of frequently asked questions that people may generally ask about your game. Is there character customization? Can I change the difficulty? etc.)

Profit / Loss:
(This should list all the possible expenses that it costs to fully develop your game. This includes if you need to set up a company, register names, hire help, buy assets, pay for marketing, make a website, and more)
(You should also estimate the value of your game based off of the size, and game play length of the project)

Risks and Obstacles:
(This should include any and all obstacles that will make development difficult for you and anything that may prevent you from completing your game. This is anything like lack of motivation, time, or funding problems)
(risks should include anything you invest in this project, such as time and money, with the realistic acknowledgement that you could be losing it.)

PPD Outline without my comments:

Hi Concept:Game Features:Story Summary:Game Mechanics:Target Demographic, Platform, and ESRB Rating:Product Competition:Future Development:F.A.Q.:Profit and Loss:Risk Analysis:

Menu at top:
GameObject > 2D Object > Tilemap

This should create a Grid gameobject with agrid component.
This will also have a TileMap game object Child with a Tilemap component.
Rename Tilemap to it's usage, like 'Tilemap_ground'

• Completed

Menu at top:
Window > TilePalette

Select 'Create Palette'.
This will create a new palette, name accordingly.
(ex. Grass Platforms)
The sprites sheet is divided up equally by Pixels Per Unit (32x32, 64x64, etc...)
Make sure the sprite sheet is set to multiple and sliced accordingly.

• Completed

Drag and Drop the desired spritesheet into tile palette window.
Unity will automatically create tile assets from the image.

Now you can select a specific tile and use that to paint into the scene
You can grab multiple sprites and paint as a group.
Use Control + Click to Erase.You can add Tilemap Collider 2D component to ground layer to add a collider to the outside edges.
Alternatively, you can create your own collider objects if you need something more specific.You can also work with layers to add in foilage, background environments, and more.

• Completed

1. Find the Scene file that you want exported
2. Right-click the scene file and click Export Package
3. Check the box that says "Include Depencies"
4. Select ExportThis should export only the assets related to that selected scene.

3/10/2021 - VR Intensive Training

What I did:
Corrected the flight stick issues. One problem was that the hand colliders were pushing into the actual ship, causing it to sink or push in incorrect directions once off of the 'track and dolly' system.
Created a ui system with simple animation. Linked ui values to the audio mixer for volume control.
Did a number of playthroughs and small bug fixes to insure the game ran smoothly.Presented project.Complete! :)

3/9/2021 - VR Intensive Training

What I did:
Added in Controller Vibration manager script
Added in 0.5f and 2 second controller vibration signals to the timeline sequences during warp and asteroid interruption
Installed Universal Render Pipeline for optimization
Added script to make ship moveable by keyboard input
Worked on collision and layers to prevent on-ship items from colliding/flying around and breaking ship movement.What I plan to do next:
Implement VR flight controls with the ship movement script.
Add in UI
Project clean up and bug checking

3/8/2021 - VR Intensive Training

What I did:
Created new timeline for after reactor is fixed
Created new timeline for warping to home area
Made chest accessible by button
Chest uses hinge joint and opens by hand instead of animation
Added power core behaviour and audio/button triggers
Added event for 4 reactor power buttons
Adjusted canvas fader
fixed bug with chair rotation (was using eulerangles instead of localeulerangles)
Set new layer to resolve fist/point colliding with chest
reactor buttons now "Glow"
Adjusted direct light shadows to Hard and lowered the strength to 0.5. Inside of ship is now more visible.
Fixed some timeline bugs
Adjusted asteroid particle system's life span to dissappear 5 seconds after reaching behind ship for optimization
-adjusted growth over lifetime curve for better visuals
Adjusted switch button animations to not pop out as far when rotating
Placed a box collider at bottom of coffee mug to reinforce coffee spheres from going through mesh
Adjusted power core triggers, can no longer be triggered more than once.
-Good powercore is deactive until bad powercore is removed (due to chest collision during track/dolly sequences)
Set a number of buttons that are not initially interactable to be colored black until they are activated and flashing
Added in Sparks Particle system to reactor chamber, disables when bad powercore is picked upWhat I plan to do next:
Controller vibration on warp
Week 4 - Free Flying controls

3/6/2021 - VR Intensive Training

What I did:
Adjusted asteroids to grow in size over life to help the illusion of not just spawning in the distance.
Adjusted timeline events and scripts so the warp button will transition to the next scene chronologically correct
Added in a fader from black to play at start
Added in a fader to white to play at the end of Warping, this allows the change of scenery without the player seeing it.
Timeline to play case 4, repair mode. Simulates ship shutdown by playing sounds and calling events. Alarm light flickers with event calls.
Event that turns all button colors black and disables the ability to interact
Same event turns all screen colors black, simulating they are shut off
Same event change direct light low or high.What I plan to do next:
Turn Chair - replace power core
Warp to 'home' area

3/5/2021 - VR Intensive Training

What I did:
Changed the shader of the switch buttons to VFXMasterShaderTransparent. This allows me to change the color of buttons for flash/on/off states but also uses a color burn to simulate the buttons being 'lit up'.
Heavily adjusted and finished the track and asteroid sequence. This includes the Asteroid particle effects, audio clips, skybox, signal emitters/receivers, and game object activations. Alarm sound and Red light should be synced together now.
Fixed an issue where the Timeline sequence would change on the wrong director.
At the end of the sequence, player is told to initiate the warp drive again. Signal emitter now triggers the button to be interactable again. It also changes the values to have the button begin Timline Sequence 3 on correct director, which is the "warp away from danger area".
Fixed an issue with the track path not resetting at the correct time.What I plan to do next:
Continue working on Shutdown/Repair Sequence

3/3/2021 - VR Intensive Training

What I did:
Created Warp prefab
Removed emissions from buttons, didn't look well.
Added in a "ButtonGlow" texture and enlarged it with tiling, looks nicer.
Created new Cylindrical buttons with derived script.
Created Aniamtion Override Controllers to dynamically set up new button animations
-This worked for the Button Cover release as well.
Created a flashing button to release the Warp Drive cover, which then allows the user to access the Warp Drive button.
Set the TimelineManager script to a singleton since it will be accessed by multiple scripts through this project
Created WarpDrive script for the button, this checks if it is able to pushed, if it has been pushed, if the user can enable the warp again and if the user can proceed to the next timeline sequence
Fixed some an issue where multiple buttons scripts appeared due to prefab setup.
Made the WarpDrive script more dynamic for future use in Timeline Sequence
Began setting up Asteroid Sequence
Within Asteroid Timeline, removed large ships and satellites, set sfx, music, and VO audio, set warp to enable / disable.
Set up Asteroid Gamestate in GameManager for development ease purposesWhat I plan to do next:
Finish Asteroid Timeline Sequence
-Alarm audio need to trigger
-Red lights need to flash with alarms in sync
-Skybox needs to change
-Sequence needs to reach and end and allow player to warp to next sequence

3/2/2021 - VR Intensive Training

What I did:
Added in Timeline and Playable Director components to create Launch Sequence for ship.
Extended the Cinemachine Track and Dolly script to allow for signals to be called from the Timeline. New methods include speed modifications and changes, as well as a Lerp to the speed change. This allows a smooth transition when the speed is modified, rather than instantly jumping to the next speed in a single frame.What I plan to do next:
Need to work on the 'Warp' transition and playtest the overall gameplay to make sure everything is transitioning and playing chronologically.
Some sounds also need to be added in still

3/1/2021 and before, during Week 2 - VR Intensive Training

What I did:
Created Github account and created repository
Animated main screens to play and boomerang
Moved OVR camera to decent position
Added collider and grab script to coffee mug
Added offset for mug
Added custom hands into scene
Button Challenge - Should know if button is on or off, if on turn green, if off, mesh renderer turns red...
Delay between how fast the button can be pressed
Abstract classes for buttons
Make buttons 'glow'
in editor button to trigger buttons for ease of testing
statemachine for timeline of game story
Better to use on the fader use an event systemWhat I plan to do next:
Learn and Utilize Timeline Asset
Add in Cinemachine Asset