Game Off 2021 - YourWaifuIsALie

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Game Off 2021 - Day 5

November 06, 2021

Study

More Youtube:

• How to make AWESOME Scene Transitions in Unity!

Menus

Procrastinating actually making a game by making everything else first. The most basic of menus created, but it should be functional. Sub-menus are activating/deactivating a canvas prefab. Scene transition (between MenuScene and GameScene currently) has a simple Animator with a fade-in upon scene entry and fade-out on trigger call.

Fun fact, I learned that the display of multiple canvasses can be controlled by the canvas Sort Order. If order is the same, I believe it comes down to Z-positions and display quirks.

For instance, since my scene transition and menu UI are on separate canvases, I found that activating/deactivating the menus change the rendering priority. Thus, after going to options and back, the menu’s background would render over the transition, hiding the fade-out transition effect.

I also have a prefab’d “Back” button which will remember which scene was last activated. Simple but important as I get used to how Unity passed around references to GameObject elements.

Progress

• Added basic menu + canvas-switching buttons
• Added basic scene transition animation

TODO

• Figure out how to make Unity play nice with Git
  • Specifically non-text assets like textures, blender models, sound effects, etc.
• Keep playing with Jekyll, fixing things like links
• Continue nailing down specific battle mechanics and overworld power-ups
  • Bug-themed things
• Main character designs and 2d “sprite” (probably cutout animation) for both overworld and battle
  • Can visualize the rest of the world around the main character for consistency
• Start programming
  • Options
  • Overworld
  • Battle

Time Spent

8 + 2.75hr