Timeframe
From 26 June 2012 to 2 July 2012 (7 days).Maybe but just maybe I think about counting off 29 and 30 of June. At these two days I've been in Warsaw at the Java developers conference. This is one time a year event.
Production Time
I am not counting time needed to listen to presentation talk (including rewinding) because I can't recall time I needed to listen it again and again. I can only recall how much time I needed or will I need to create each element of the game.
Predicted time -> real time (in minutes)
- Setup 10 -> 10
- Assets 45 -> 60
- Player 30 -> 40
- Enemy 20 -> 15
- Menus 40 -> 20
- GUI 30 -> 10
- Build 10 -> 1
- Review 10 -> 10
Additional changes
Blinking sphere
Done in 40 minutesThis one took me by surprise. I tried to use yield to create blinking and failed miserably (unity created about 100 instances of explosion particles all over the scene). I needed to deeply understand what "yield" is actually doing and documentation is lack of this information (I found this). Finally everything is in order and I think I will write another blog post about yielding.
Moving cube
30 minutesThis was fairy simple. I made it to rotate in 3d :-)
Random respawn time for spheres
5 minutesToo easy :-)
Make the Sphere move in a circular pattern
30 minutesI had little problem with angle calculation but it's ok now.
Project Detail
The goal of this project was to create mouse clicking game with objects to destroy and score to earn. What I did was in biggest part what the tutorial told me to except particles effect. I spent some time to tune how explosion should look like just for fun.
What about text editor? I think that UniSciTE is a horrible script editor that I don't want to use ever again. Instead I discovered that there are working Unity plugins for my favorite Sublime Text. After 5 minutes everything was up and running!
This is rather new experience for me to write game by creating objects first and writing scripts second but I like this new approach. What is important that I don't feel limited in any way when thinking about what I can create with Unity. It's exciting to think that I will be capable of creating really good-looking games 5 to 10 times faster than before with less effort on my side. It sounds funny that creating 3D worlds looks now much simpler than creating these in only two dimensions.
Unity rocks :-)
Software and materials used
Rather not surprising are these two: Unity 3D 3.5.2, Windows 7 x64.What about text editor? I think that UniSciTE is a horrible script editor that I don't want to use ever again. Instead I discovered that there are working Unity plugins for my favorite Sublime Text. After 5 minutes everything was up and running!
Final Thoughts
This is rather new experience for me to write game by creating objects first and writing scripts second but I like this new approach. What is important that I don't feel limited in any way when thinking about what I can create with Unity. It's exciting to think that I will be capable of creating really good-looking games 5 to 10 times faster than before with less effort on my side. It sounds funny that creating 3D worlds looks now much simpler than creating these in only two dimensions.
Unity rocks :-)
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