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I've made a lot of progress with my game since last week. The game is now at a playable stage. You can now run around and collect gems against a timer. After playing the game myself, I could not find many glaring bugs.


My Game From An Arial View

I have a fully working character controller. I fixed the problem by returning to a later version of Unity. The terrain has also seen a big visual improvement. I added new assets, textures, trees, and grass. The maze has been remade using 3D objects. I also spread the collectible gems all over the map. I made 3D cube objects and stretched them across the map border to contain the player. I then turned off their mesh renderers so the walls became invisible. I also did the same for my characters house because the player could walk through the object.

I still need to make a working scoring system. Points will be earned when gems are collected. The main menu also needs to be made. I was getting errors and my game would not play. I'm finding the scoring system a bit tricky but hopefully, I can fix the problem before the end of next week. My minimap is now fixed and the player can now be seen on it. To fix this problem I attached a cube object to the player character. 

Overall I'm happy with my progress because I've caught up with my plan. I was a little behind on meeting my target plan last week because I could not get my character controller to work properly.
 Before the end of next week, I want to improve the look of the terrain, make the main menu and get a working score system. My game should be fully finished and working by next week if all goes according to plan.

An Image Taken While Playing

Updated Maze

Minimap and Timer


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  1. Nicole GoodmanDecember 2, 2018 at 8:56 PM

    Hey Conor, your game looks really good. I can tell you've put a lot of time effort into making your game. Visually, your game looks really interesting and different. I look forward to seeing the final game!

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