Multimedia Development

This week I started working on adding the finishing touches and just polishing my game up. Just as I thought I was done I realised when the game over and winner scenes load up you can't actually control them. The thing is when I loaded them from their own scene without going into the game scene they worked perfect but when the game loaded up it activated something I had in my player controller script and what this was, was that the mouse cursor gets turned off. This took me so long to figure out what was wrong, I was researching for hours online and finally I found out the problem. So basically I had to turn the mouse cursor on in the game so now when your playing the mouse is visible. When I figured out the problem I tried to just turn the mouse cursor on in the selected scenes but I couldn't manage it, I wasn't to annoyed about it because to be honest I was just happy I got them scenes controllable.  Anyways my game in now complete and I am really happy with the outcome, ...

Image - GIF So Close This week I watched a tutorial on how to make things disappear on trigger the reason I watched this was to add it to my game so when you enter the room downstairs in my house you will see the ghost then when you hit a certain point she will disappear.   I found this tutorial extremely helpful ( link here )   I also watched some tutorials on how to add jump scares, at first, I was considering adding some but adding them is pretty difficult and it was never in my plans to add this and to be honest I’m happy enough without them and I don’t want to do something really difficult and run into errors at this point. As I was saying I watched a few tutorials on it, and I found them interesting but I won’t be adding them.    Right now my game is nearly complete it’s a fully functioning working game at the moment but over the next few days I will spend some time polishing it up just to get it to look a bit nicer and make sure everything is working perf...

Image - Rick and Morty Gif How To Playtest  This video explains that you should always start to play test as soon as possible because if you leave it to late you could realise the game isn't fun or isn't how you wanted it to be after hours of work. Anyone can play test for you once they understand the basics of how the game works. The video explains different types of play testing and also gives examples of different games that had problems that could've being easily fixed with enough play testing. It even explains how some bugs in games can be turned into cool features! Watch the video here. 7 Different Types of Game Testing Techniques This article explains all about different types of game testing, it explains the major risks in game testing and also gives 7 examples and explains them.  Here are the major risks: If the game doesn’t create a compelling experience for the niche audience If the fun ...

This week I found my own tutorials to follow and add to my game. The first tutorial I found was a tutorial that shows how to end a game when it reaches a certain time. This tutorial was only a short tutorial, but it took me a while to find, I had to watch a lot of videos before I found the right one. (Link to tutorial) When my game reaches a time of 4 minutes this screen comes up: This screen allows you to replay or quit.   Image - Screenshot of my game (My own image)   Second tutorial I followed was one where it creates an end point for my game. This means when the player gets out of the house in my game they will win and get a message showing that they won.  (Link to tutorial) This is the winning screen that will display:   .   Like the other screen there will be an option to replay or quit.   Image - Screenshot of my game (My own image) I found this week’s tutorials extremely useful and it was definitely nice to add on to my game. With them tutorials don...

Image - Story GIF Telling Stories with Systems This video explains all about story telling in games, firstly it explains how some games are designed to make the player feel like they are making big decisions when in fact no matter what choice you make it will still lead to the same outcome.    It also explains how some games have other ways of making the player feel like the game is more based on what decisions you make for example the game Shadow of Morder has a feature were some enemies you thought you may have killed can come back with a scare on their face and wanting revenge.    More on this video here. What Every Game Developer Needs to Know about Story   This is a great read if your interested on getting to know more about game story telling.   An example within this article is when it explains how important and how much character matters in game.    “Character  is what he chooses to do. He's driving by a burning school bus. There...