My Game 7 is "FPS". 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 3D level that can be transversed. A First Person Camera. A Goal. one enemy type. One weapon type. FPS UI. Extras would be weapon swap, ammo/Energy system.
Results
Took ~5 hours of work to complete. Other then the gems, audio, and screenshot, everything was done inside of Unity. You can find the game here:
https://adroitconceptions.itch.io/12games12weeks-7-fps.
What When Right?
- I have a flow going down. Lots of reusing of prior code (Menu system, UI system).
What When Wrong?
- Lots of lights + Integrated GPU => sadness. My computer could run the game ok at 960x540 at medium settings fine, but stutters really bad at full HD/full quality. This wasn't a issue with making the game, just testing.
- The Limited color palette was much more challenging than I expected.
- Something was causing Unity to chug even though nothing was happening and my CPU load was low. Not sure if it was the lighting and/or Probuilder. Probuilder is nice to quickly build stuff inside of Unity, but it also comes with some challenges.
- I dropped having the AIs move around
What Lesson(s) Did I learn?
- Good workflow really helps.
What did I take away?
- If I am going to do a game with much lighting, I need a better GPU
Milestones/Workflow/Tool Usage
- FPS player controller
- UI / menus
- Pickup
- Enemy
- Damage
- VFX/SFX
- Level blocks
- Build level
- Exit
- Main Menu
What would I do if I was to work further on this (Expanded from an MVP to a full game)?
- better art
- more enemies
- more weapons
- add puzzles
- more levels
- level select with collectibles found status.
- simple story?
- better audio - I am looking at you jump sound :D
