Hands Off/Hands On is a wave survival game. The player must survive the wave and after each wave, the difficulty will keep increasing. Each wave will increase the number of enemies and different type of enemies will spawn.

This week was spent setting up the game loop and creating prototypes for the art to be used in the game.

The Level

We have some basic prototypes for the level ready.

First prototype

- Second Prototype concepts

-          The level will be broken down into four parts:

• A warehouse
• An office
• A graveyard
• A stadium.

So far, only a few placements of buildings for the warehouse is completed. The whole map is surrounded by walls and for the ground we used road tiles. After completing designing all four parts, Light baking, environmental particle systems and  traps remains.

Art

Following the concept document we changed our design for enemies to be robots, which makes a bit more sense thematically and also makes it easier to change weapons on the enemy.

- Gun concept art: Chainsaw (left), Laser Gun(right), Golden Gun (bottom).

Gun Behaviour

Weapons dropped on the ground need to be easy to see and distinguish from other objects. We used an outline package from the asset store to give each weapon a glow that can be seen from far away. The glow changes colour when the player is close, and the player script knows which weapon to pick up when there are multiple on the ground. Currently the plan is to just hit a key to pick up the closest weapon.

Player and Game Behaviour

Basic game behaviour was also implemented this week, such as objects to manage the current wave state, enemy spawning, timing, and more. This is all boring code stuff so not much to show for it. But it all lays the groundwork for the overall game loop. Additionally, player behaviour was implemented, such as a player controller, and an inventory to hold and swap guns. More on that next week!

References:

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/p/quick-outline-115488

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/environments/industrial/rpg-fps-game-assets-for-pc-mobile-industrial-set-v2-0-86679