PIANO LOCKPICK MINIGAME

LEVEL DESIGN

• Created simple rectangular sandbox level with a sliding door

  • Animated door and programmed it to open if all correct piano notes are played consecutively​

  • Added trigger to animate piano and minute-box to come out of the floor as the player moves towards the door

  • If correct notes are played, the piano and minute-box will fall back through the floor, and the door will slide open

• Added simple UI to instruct the player, and allow them to listen to the notes to be played

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PLAYER MOVEMENT

• Programmed simple movement for player using Character Controller component and script​​

  • Player transform is multiplied by input axis when WASD keys are pressed

  • Included player movement to move camera or move away from piano to see how far the ball has fallen in the minute-box

  • Used Cinemachine camera angle to control direction player is facing, controlled with mouse

  • Programmed raycast from the center of the players screen, as indicated by the black dot. This is used to press the piano's keys when clicking
     

PIANO AND MINUTE-BOX MECHANICS

• Created animations via Mecanim for each piano key press

  • Programmed custom functions to be called on animation events as the piano keys are pressed​

• Designed the minute-box to drop a ball after the player selects a difficulty level

  • Added a physic material to ball to control its friction and bounciness​

  • Friction, bounce, height, width and angle of slopes were all considered to ensure the ball takes exactly one minute to reach the bottom.

  • Added a box collider trigger to check if ball has reached the bottom. If so, game over screen will be displayed

• Programmed Game Manager script to check which difficulty is selected from a List of arrays containing the correct note orders.

  • If the player makes a mistake, they must restart from the beginning of the melody, which can played by pressing E

• Added "Clear Attempt" button to allow player to restart note order