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Week 3: Basic Gameplay | Apr 6 - Apr 10

Project

Beginner

+300 XP

5 Hours

(23)

Overview

Summary

This week, you will program a top-down game with the objective of throwing food to hungry animals - who are stampeding towards you - before they can run past you. In order to do this, you will become much more familiar with some of the most important programming and Unity concepts, including if-then statements, random value generation, arrays, collision detection, prefabs, and instantiation. In completing this week's sessions, you will learn how to program a basic game with the ability to launch projectiles and maneuver the player to keep the game alive. 

Project Objective

By the end of this week, you will be able to:
Create an if-then statement in order to implement basic logic in your project, including the use of greater than (>) and less than (<) operators
Transform a gameobject into a prefab that can be instantiated into the scene
Work with prefabs to add efficiencies in your workflows
Get user input with GetKey and KeyCode to test for specific keyboard presses
Use arrays to create an accessible list of objects or values and randomly select an object from that array
Randomly generate values to randomize spawn positions
Change the camera’s perspective to better suit your game
Repeat functions on a timer with InvokeRepeating
Write custom methods to make your code more readable
Detect collisions and destroy objects that collide with each other
Display messages in the console with Debug Log