Monday, 11 June 2012

Evaluation

for my project i decided to create a driving game that took place in an arena, i wanted it to be a spectator sport, like ancient gladiators so that you were playing one of the characters in this arena but it was using cars instead of actual fighting. when i was laying out my plan for what i was going to do and when i alocated each week to having a specific task, but i ran into a problem when at the end of the first month all my work got deleted and i had to start again this put me very behind schedual so i had to divide my time between writing my blog and doing the work for the game.
when it came to actualy doing the work for the game everything was going to plan i managed to get all my models completed only slightly behind schedual and could start work on putting them into the game and getting the game to work, this was made easier by using some scripts for the driving mechanics that i had got off of the unity3d.com website. but the hardest part was when i had to start creating the AI as there werent many scripts that wre very helpful ion this area and the ones that i did find wouldnt work with my other scripts that i already had workingm, so i had to ask mark for help with the scripting of the AI,. I ran into anouther slight problem aswel when somebody had either saved over or deleted my game although this wasnt a massive set back as i had most of the scripts still and it just meant that i had to spend a day putting everything back together again.
the last week ended up being very hectic although most of my game was complete i still needed the most important part the enemy AI in the end to get it done I had to settle for the enemy following a preset path with the guns acting like turrets instead of them and i had no end or start screens although these are easy to make i shouldnt have left them till the very end as they ended up looking like realy bad. as for the blog i had left it until the end to finish and after writing it out and updating it i found out a couple of dayss later that it had not made any of my changes so my blog ended up being mostly done but with no pictures in it.
if i were to do this project again one of the changes that i would make would be to not use blogger as this is the reason for most of my problems although writing everything down and printing stuff off would have been longer then the typing out of everything it would have been quicker and more efficient than using it because of the amount of problems that i have faced.

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