It's Finally Final!

After a fantastic semester of playing with Stencyl, gaming.js, and Unity, I have finally put together a basic pinball game. It isn't perfect...the game never actually ends, and the physics have some more tweaking, but...it plays. There have been a lot of changes since the last prototype. In addition to basic bumpers, I have added triangle bumpers, a plunger simulator, drop targets, and lanes for the ball. Also, the game now keeps score, and it counts down your remaining balls. I have learned so much this semester, but as you can see, I have only touched on the basics of writing this game. The world of battles and levels and wormholes I envisioned isn't quite here, but now that I have the foundation, I can continue building upon this fantasy world of which I dream.

In the following video, I discuss my vision and strategy as I build the game, and there is a brief clip at the end of the game in action:


If you would like to try the game for yourself, please feel free to play it online.

I hope you enjoy, and Happy Holidays!!

Pinball Masters, Prototype #4

I have finally gotten my flippers working in Unity! It took a while, and after trying "Lerp"ing and "Slerp"ing (and maybe even a little twerking!?), I found a YouTube video from PushyPixels that simply utilized "rotateAround".  Since I am working in JavaScript, variable declaration was done a little differently, but nothing too difficult to figure out. The next issue I had was that they were using the mouse as a controller, and I wanted to use "D" for the left flipper and "K" for the right flipper, so I gave the object tags, and paired them with the GetKeyUp and GetKeyDown events. Finally, I stopped watching at the point in the video where they were still struggling with trying to get the left flipper to move correctly. I simply utilized their script, changing the positive/negative values on "maxAngle" throughout the code for the left flipper, and it worked swimmingly.

So here it is, prototype number four! 

And if you would like to check out the video by PushyPixels, you can find it here.