Presentation and Graphics

Devlog – Presentation and Graphics

This is the 4^th stage of Dino game development. This state is about presentation and graphic.

In this state, there are couple graphic improvements have been implemented including Dino running effect, and the birds flying effect, to achieve this, I used Unity animator to create running effect for the Dinosaur by combining multiple sprites to create running effect for the main character. Now with the running effect the game look much better and more realistic.

The same fomular is also applied for the bird’s flying effect. This is done by combining multiple bird sprites to create flying effect for the bird. Now with Dino running effect and the bird flying effect, the game now become more fun to play and enjoyable.

There are some modifications also implemented to make the game more enjoyable. First, the Dino weird movement has been fixed, now the player can play with space bar button as well as the left mouse click button, Dino can crouch by using down arrow button or by using right mouse click. Dino collider radius also changed to smaller radius to make it easier for player to avoid the game obstacles. From the last reviews from the Discord group, Dino jumping effect has been modified so user is no longer able to ‘fly’ the Dino to cheat the game if they keep pressing on the space bar button or keep clicking that left mouse. This is very important fix to make sure that the game is playable. Together with Dino movement fix, the score system is also implemented, now the user can see their score while they are playing the game and their highest score is also updated if the new score is higher than their previous game.

There are couple minor bugs that can be found until this state of the game development, the obstacles randomly appear on the screen in the wrong position and sometime there are no way for the user to avoid to those leading to the game over at some point of the game. This bug is n being viewed and I need to have a consultant from the tutor to get it fixed.

References:

 https://toronja.itch.io/google-dinosaur