Laying the Foundations

My goals for the first week were to lay down the foundations for the project. This was anything from setting up any folders that I might need, to creating my first scene. This scene is going to be used as a ‘landing screen’ -meaning that it’ll be the first screen that the player sees when the game starts. From here, they will be able to start or quit the game, and possibly even change options such as sound and screen resolution.

I’ve set up a basic start menu with button functionality. Clicking any of these buttons highlights then and runs its appropriate function (see appendix).

Starting the Development - Introduction

The posts from this point forward will be about the development of the game. Over the past few weeks I’ve researched the game that I would like to create, and now I must put that into practice. For the entirety of this project, I will be learning new and exciting things about the world of programming. I have chosen to develop my project in Unity, using C#.

Each post that I create will contain the features that I have implemented from a summary point of view. I would like you to bear in mind that the development process won’t be as straightforward as portrayed in my posts, but I will do my best to document the struggles I have encountered along the way. I expect this project, Mini Miner, will be a great challenge given the time frame.

During the course of this year I will be researching mainly from two sources: a course that I have purchased on Udemy, and also the YouTube user GamesPlusJames. The Udemy course will be a great step towards learning the basics of the programming language, and once I have this knowledge I will be doing research on GamesPlusJames’ YouTube playlist titled “Learn to make an RPG game & learn C#”. The next week or so I will be starting my research before the actual development begins.

References to all help sources will be posted at the end of the blog, upon completion of the project.