Unity Free Tutorials

Unity Free Tutorials Week 9

This week I have choose to follow on from last weeks how to design a character for unity to how to animate a character for unity. These are what I plan to use for my NPC's. I found the tutorial on youtube and this is the link. 

This is a small video I recorded from in Unity to show a basic animation I applied to my character.

The second tutorial I have worked on is creating a mini map for my game, I also found this on Youtube and it is a video from Jimmy Vegas here is the link.

This is a screen shot form Unity

 

The tutorials were both easy to follow, I struggled a little to make get my map to become a circle but I figured out i just missed a small step in making it become a mask. I think both of these tutorials will be really useful in my game as they are big parts of the idea of my game.

 

Game Stories

Week 9 Reading

The first reading is about how stories need a hero and it talks about how myths and old stories have been breed into humans as the people who could convince tribes that the preservation of the tribe was more important than the individuals life is more important than their own would have had the best chance of survival and so these are the genes that would have lasted the longest and we more than likely possess. It talks about how stories give us purpose and without them life would seem pointless. 

The second reading talks about how games are not films and films are not plays. He breaks down how films had to adapt after they started as they were thought to be like plays which we know films obviously aren't, it then talks about how games are different to films but they still need story. It suggests that games without stories attract small crowd and don't really keep an audience which I don't think is really true as games such as Fifa and Call of Duty maintain a huge fan base each yea despite no major story or it not being the main aspect of the game. Also another really good example of this not applying is Fortnite despite it not being everyone's cup of tea you can't deny that it is extremely popular and successful. 

(This is an image of Fortnite taken from Flickr)