Game vision statement

example of how my game may look

over the past few weeks I have been thoroughly researching what game I would like to make. All the unity tutorials that I have been doing have made me a bit more confident on my game making skills but to be honest my unity skills are still not the best and I do not enjoy game development much at all, but For my game I will try to keep it simple but still manageable.

To give a bit of background to my game, I hope to kind of follow this unity tutorial. I will change loads of things but this does seem like a very manageable project I could take on.  I will also use this video on how to add enemies to a game as that is something I struggled with when practicing lat week. This tutorial is great as you can randomly make enemies spawn and it will not be so predictable as to where the enemies will go.

For my game I want to make a  platformer. I think this could be very fun. I have some bigger ideas but being realistic I do not think that them ideas would be do-able at all. for my game I started researching lots of  platformer games . the first game that I looked at was shovel knight this is a very advanced platformer but it really does show off some of the gameplay features that I would like to have in my final game . shovel knight . in my game I want to have a character which preferable will be some sort of animal. I am not stuck on what animal to make and I will just do one that is the easiest and looks the best.

my game will hopefully have one fully functional level and then maybe another one if I have time. the premise of the game will involve the character  to jump from platform to platform and collect food. while you are doing this there will be some enemies trying to stop you . when the user is playing this game I hoped that enemies will come in from each side and it should take a bit of skill from them to get past the enemies. the player should be emerged into the game and they should not get bored easily. players will have to think on the spot and use their own skill to complete a level. I don't think I will add weapons in this game . I think I will make it hard by making the player have to evade the enemies while collecting food and have no way of fighting back. If the player could fight back then it may become too easy and it is hard to make enemies different skill levels without being advanced at unity

I hope that the my game will be colourful as I find games that are grey and black in the background to be very dull and it doesn't make you want to play it. my game will probably only work on pc as I have no idea how to get it to work on anything else. I will hopefully use some of the unity platformer tutorials as a guide but I will change a good few stuff like the collar of objects. I will try put a counter at the top that tells you how much food you have collected and once you hit a certain goal the level is completed. I am still not sure what that goals should be but it will probably be around 25-50. I would like to add a boss fight in at the end like Mario does on most levels but that may be very hard to code.

I don't really like the coding in this module as I am so used to website coding and this sort of coding is just throwing me fully off but I will try add a little bit of code into my final game as I know it is necessary to have a working game in the end.


Overall game development is probably my weakest part of this course but I will give it my best shot. I am trying to keep this simple as I want to actually have a working game at the end not try a huge idea and barely get any of it completed.  I still have some scope to make changes but I am excited by this idea and look forward to getting started with it.