C# | GITHUB | UNITY
An Educational Adventure
Development Team
William Halling Howard
Michael John
Rhys Mader
Chase Percy
Project Planning and Tools
- Weekly meetings
- Trello
- Git with GitHub for source control
- Git Flow Model
- Git LFS
- Doxygen & Tooltips
- Unity & C# Style Guide
Overview
In this unit we got to use Unity, a game engine we didn’t make ourselves. The unit was focused on delivering an educational product as requested by the client. For our project we had to educate a wide variety of users about climate change and the damage that plastics have on the environment. Using Unity was a real eye-opener for how we could improve our own game engines and scripting for future units.
Features developed by me
The Hub
The hub was designed to be the central point from which the player could see their progress and choose which mission they would like to play. As the player progresses their score is used to determine how well they went on a mini-game and the global stability meter and particle system under the earth are updated to reflect that.
Dialogue System
The dialogue system was used to teach the player about how to play the game, educational information about plastic and climate change, and convey the story. It is integrated with the separate Compendium system to provide more detailed information about a particular topic.
Turtle Beach Clean Up
This mission was designed to be easily accessible to all users and provide alternative gameplay styles to the two other missions. The gameplay consists of cleaning up the pollution from the beach and ensuring the turtles don’t get entangled in any waste. The player is taught to only remove non-natural materials from the beach and the shown how to recycle them afterwards.
Android & Controller Support
Our game supports android devices and provides separate UI controls to help them play the missions and navigate menus. Letter boxing is implemented to maintain a 16:9 ratio and keep visuals consistent between platforms. Controller support is provided mostly by unity but menu layering issues and UI button highlighting were the biggest issues to resolve.
Intro Sequence
I created an intro sequence to help develop the story and let the player understand the current situation regarding climate change and plastic waste. I also provided a voice-over to make the scene more engaging for the player.
