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Challenge 3 - Creating Balloons, Bombs, & Booleans

Apply your knowledge of physics, scrolling backgrounds, and special effects to a balloon floating through town, picking up tokens while avoiding explosives. You will have to do a lot of troubleshooting in this project because it is riddled with errors. You will continue practicing and refining your bug reporting skills. 

The balloon floats upwards as the player holds spacebar

The background seamlessly repeats, simulating the balloon’s movement

Bombs and Money tokens are spawned randomly on a timer 

When you collide with the Money, there’s a particle and sound effect

When you collide with the Bomb, there’s an explosion and the background stops 

Challenge 3 - Asset Store

Challenge 3 - Direct Download.zip

 the "Challenge 3 Starter Files" from the Tutorial Materials section, then double-click on it to 

 folder, use the "Challenge 3 - Instructions" and Outcome video as a guide to complete the challenge

Overview

Use what you learned about exploratory testing as you go through this challenge - select your method for exploratory testing (text document, spreadsheet, testing tool, or mindmap) and take exploratory testing notes as you work through this challenge. 

Exploratory testing

The balloon should float up as the player presses spacebar

There is a “NullReferenceExcepton” error on the player’s rigidBody variable - it has to be assigned in Start() using the 

The player can’t control the balloon

The background should move at start, then 

In MoveLeftX.cs, the objects should only Translate to the left if the game is 

The background only moves when the game is over

Make bombs or money objects spawn every few seconds

There is an error message saying, “Trying to Invoke method: SpawnManagerX.

No objects are being spawned 

Make the fireworks display at the balloon’s position

The fireworks particle is a child object of the Player - but its location still has to be set at the same location

Fireworks appear to the side of the balloon

 variable should be half of the background’s 

The background is not repeating properly

Prevent the player from floating their balloon too high 

, then only allow the player to add upwards force if that boolean is true

Bonus: The balloon can float way too high

Make the balloon appear to bounce off of the ground, preventing it from leaving the bottom of the screen. There should be a sound effect when this happens, too!

Figure out a way to test if the balloon collides with the ground object, then add an impulse force upward if it does

Bonus: The balloon can drop below the ground

Continue building out the bug report you created in the first two challenges and populate it with bugs you find in this challenge - remembering to tag them, and prioritize them appropriately. Remember to try and find additional bugs that are not outlined in the challenge instructions and really focus on writing clear, concise reports. Finally go back to your first two bug reports and see if you can see how you are improving your bug reporting skills from the first challenge to this challenge. 

Unity Version 2018.4