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In my game you play as an adventurer in a medieval fantasy world. You traverse through a forest and descend down into an ancient dungeon. Overall I’m very happy with how the visuals of the game turned out. I’m very proud of how the brick material and the trees looked in-game. I was also really happy with how easy it was to implement the rig and animations, especially considering I did a little custom tinkering with the Mixamo rig in Maya. Implementing rigs into game engines has always seemed like dark magic to me, so it was nice to see that it’s not as confusing and convoluted as it seems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This project taught me a lot about scope and setting realistic goals for a given time frame. My original concept would have made me create 2 different enemy types and a working combat system, on top of stuff I did end up making. Based on how long it took me to get just the player character in a working state, I’ve learned that getting a fully workable character is not something that can be done on a whim. Additionally, I learned a lot about strategies for making environmental art. It was always something that intimidated me – how do you know what to assemble in your 3D package vs. your game engine? How do you manage different materials? Fortunately this class taught me to approach it from a much more modular and compartmentalized perspective – make a kit with a bunch of super basic pieces, texture each piece as needed, and put them together on the level design side in-engine. When it comes to terrain, Unity has good enough tools to manage that in-engine as well, so all I need to prepare for that is some good tileable materials. These strategies have already helped me in concurrent projects I’ve been working on, and will continue to help me in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n