Game 3 - Post Mortem - 2D Platformer

My Game 3 is "2D Platformer".  If you want to join in either with the same Genre or your own, use the tag 12Games12Weeks on Twitter and/or itch.io, I would love to see what you create in this time also!

MVP 

The most basic MVP would be a block that can move and Jump (and maybe an attack).  Some platforms.  An enemy. Pits. Level complete. Level failure state. 1 level.

Results

Took ~5 hours of work.  Mostly working out Enemy AI/movement issues. Game can be found here: https://adroitconceptions.itch.io/12g12w2d-platformer.

What When Right?

• Getting faster at implementing the repeatable parts of the project and getting a better idea what they are.
• Got a working basic 2D platformer AI unit.

What When Wrong?

• Enemy AI had issues with edge/other Enemy detection so they moved nicely.
• Enemy AI movement script had issues because how the Unity tutorial handled movement, which looks like an API issue. 
• Couldn't get camera to follow cleanly when Lerping... even if done in fixed update - same as character - got some weird 'stuttering' of the character. - removed lerping for now.

What Lesson(s) Did I learn?

• Finding your flow really helps with efficiency.
• I am Doubling down on the functional improvements from the delegate pattern.
• Take it easy on the polish for MVPs - really speeds things up.

What did I take away?

• Would be nice to workout a tile-map brush thing to place prefabs, would make placing enemies, pickups, etc much more inline with the level creation.

Milestones/Workflow/Tool Usage

• Flat level area for testing
• Tile map + tile I had created
• Full character movement
• basically the Unity tutorial + a few modifications to use my input remapper script
• Coin picks & score UI
• Game manager listens to Delegate, coins send message on pickup
• level complete Trigger
• again fires to a delegate which the game manager is listening to
• Player death from pits
• again fires to a delegate with the game manager is listening to
• Camera follow script
• Enemy/Enemy AI
• Loading Screen/Finish up UI

What would I do if I was to work further on this (Expanded from an MVP to a full game)?

• Better camera follow script
• Power-ups/attacks for player character
• Player character sprite/animations
• More Enemies
• Better Tiles for levels
• More Levels
• Better Audio
• Input Remapping
• Options Menu