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Testing

This week I further tested my game for bugs and tried getting a main menu and score system to work correctly. After testing for a while I still could not find any bugs in the game. I'm still having trouble with getting a main menu and score system to work. I followed some more tutorials on Youtube but still can't get it to work correctly. After following tutorials on how to make a scoring system, I just managed to get errors at the end which stopped my game from working. The main menu does not appear difficult to make. I'm probably just not following along correctly. The terrain is now a little more polished looking. I moved some objects around and fixed up all the areas where trees and grass clipped through the hills. I think I'm going to change the tree assets because the player can still walk through them. I didn't have this problem when using the standard asset trees, or other tree assets that I tried from the asset store.

An image showing that trees no longer glitch inside hills

Overall I'm not happy with my progression this week because I failed to get the main menu and scoring system to work. Hopefully, I can sort it out by the end of the week. I happy that the game can still be played the way it is but unfortunately, it would be a lot more fun if it had a scoring system that worked.

Comments

  1. Hi Conor! Your game looks nice so far, I really like how green the grass is, as its not one of those sickly yellow-green color. Also, the main hill in the middle of the screenshot reminds me of a dungeon in an old game I used to play. A raised up platform was used for a final boss there.
    I'm sorry to hear about your problems with the tutorials, they almost look easy when you watch them, but once you start following them, you realize that not a single part of them is easy... Which is sad really, since it stops us from progressing further. Hopefully you can get it done sometime soon.
    And when it comes to the trees, a good few people seem to have a problem with that as a lot of tree assets are missing the collider boxes...
    Good luck!

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