POD

OVERALL GAME DESIGN

OBJECTIVE

• Player must collect 15/15 pieces of ocean garbage and take them to the designated drop zones.

  • Some objects are placed in low areas of the level, causing a timer to start counting down from 10​

  • If the timer reaches 0, the player dies. The player can reset the timer by floating to the ocean surface

PLAYER MOVEMENT

• Programmed simple movement for player using Input Actions (New Input System)

  • Used "Broadcast Messages" behaviour with custom functions​

  • WASD keys bound to composite parts (W = Forward, S = Back, Left Control = Dive​, etc)
     

• Created player movement animations for movement in all directions

GAME WORLD

• ​Reduced global gravity to give a sense of floating and slowly sinking
   

• Imported assets to create underwater coral reef scene and garbage objects for player to collect
   

• Surrounded scene with colliders to avoid player leaving boundaries of level
   

• Added different music for game scene and all menus (except pause)

  • Lofi Hip-hop works well for endless loop feel
     

MENU DESIGN

• Created font asset for Text Mesh Pro for a consistent font across all menus
   

• Duplicated game scene to create menus with live animations and similar scenery, and changed the camera angle and lighting for aesthetic appeal 
   

• Replaced all button image sprites with custom bubble image for underwater theme.

  • ​Buttons have different colours to indicate when clicked, and will play a sound effect

  • Set up Pause Menu and Instructions as panels that are set active or inactive based on UI button presses

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