Space Cake

Style-Guide & Sprites

We started by making style-guides and game-design documents to note all the ideas we had and put them together. After that I started making sprites to use for the game. First I made a list of sprites I wanted:

- Player ship

- Enemy ship

- Bullet / Laser

- Jerry Can boosters

After making my list of sprites I want, I started in photoshop by making simple art. I selected the pencil tool and started. I took some reference off of google for ideas.

Design

For me the design of a game is very important. If it doesn't play well or just doesn't look right it's a major red flag. So I charged myself with the task of making the game look right. Most games have you (the player) start at the left-side of the screen, this is because in most cultures people read from left-to-right. The score also needed a good place to be in. First I set it in the top-middle and then just above the healthbar, but I noticed with both places that the score will obstruct your view when the player is playing the game. So top-left corner was the best option in my opinion because of the left-to-right reading style. Most games have the healthbar located in the bottom-left corner, so I thought that would be good. It doesn't obstruct anything and it's still prefectly visable.

Core Mechanics

After that we looked at what the core-mechanics of our gamer could be. So we settled down and started thinking and making a list. We started of with movement and shooting enemies. So I was in charge of the movement. I made a very simple script using C# and the Transform.Position from Unity. 

More scipts can be found in the Github page at the top-right corner.