First Real Iteration - Basic Gameplay + Models

New Features

• Animated 3D models
• Sound Effects
• Title Screen
• Lives
• Bombs

Known Issues

• Ladders are a pain
  • Getting off of the ladder is frustrating
  • Jumping onto the ladder results in slow movement. (Downward velocity works against you)
  • Jumping while you are on the ladder increases your climb speed dramatically.
• Getting hit with a bomb destroys all your lives.
  • There is no delay after getting hit, so multiple collisions happen, resulting in lots of deaths.

Next Steps

• User Interface
  • Score
  • Lives
  • Level
• Increasing Difficulty
  • Exponentially decrease spawn time to increase difficulty when the level is beaten.
• Better artwork
  • Title Screen
  • Cheese
  • Bombs
• Fix those bugs!!

Personal Notes:

I worked on this game all weekend while fighting off a cold.  I am very happy with the progress that I have made, including getting my custom arcade stick to work with this game.  I DO wish that I had done a better job mapping out my game.  Specific example, the programming for what happens when the player is hit by a bomb is located in the Game Manager, but the programming for what happens when the player collects the cheese is located in the Player Script.  Some additional planning would have saved me a lot of confusion.

All in all, good weekend.