Category: Unity

Games, Unity

Kitty Land – Unity Game Using Craig Reynolds’ Steering Algorithms

Rebecca Vessal

Hey guys!

I made this game called Kitty Land in as a personal project, which centered on using Craig Reynold’s steering algorithm for 3D in Unity.  You can view his steering behaviors here: http://www.red3d.com/cwr/steer/.  Also there is a breakdown of some of his algorithms and a review of vectors on this website: http://natureofcode.com/book/.

Controls for Kitty Land: Use WASD or Arrow Keys for movement,  move around the mouse to change the view of perspective, and use Spacebar to accelerate at top speeds with a rainbow trail (which is activated after returning the lost kittens to the mother cat).

Kitty Land is a game in which you play as Nyan Cat to find all of the lost kittens and return them to their mother cat.  All of the cats are puffball shaped and were inspired by the Lubies stuffed animals.  Once the player starts to chase after a lost kitten, the lost kitten seeks the nearest waypoint until it goes past that waypoint.  Then it seeks the next waypoint until it reaches the last waypoint in the predefined path upon which the lost kitten respawn at the starting point near the first waypoint and the player respawns behind the lost kitten.  Once the player collides with the lost kitten, the lost kitten engages in leader following by following the player, the leader.  As the player captures more lost kittens, the lost kittens follow each other in a single line in the order they were captured.  After the player returns all of the lost kittens to their mother, then the player can have a rainbow trail powers, which can be activated by using the Spacebar.  With the rainbow trail powers, the player can go around with world at high speeds with an extended rainbow trailing extending from the cat’s tail.

I hope you have fun playing it.  Feel free to subscribe to my blog or comment on this post.

Games, Unity

Chase – First Unity Game I Ever Made

Rebecca Vessal

As part of a team project last spring quarter, we had to write a design document, construct a paper prototype from it, test the paper prototype with people from our game design and development II class and implement their feedback for the digital prototype, and finally build the digital prototype in Unity all under two weeks.  In addition to this, we had to teach ourselves Unity and could not seek help from the professor as part of a game industry simulation experience.  We had to learn how to make the menus, which ended up being different Unity scene files, and write C# scripts for all of the game objects in MonoDevelop.  With a team of six people including me, we were able to successfully build three levels for our game and to polish our game multiple times since we finished our project a couple of days before the due date.

My roles in this project include:

  • writing the game elements section and producing art for the game design document.
  • programming death scripts for the player, menu scripts, and instruction script.
  • delegating tasks to people in the team and checking up on people to ensure we were making progress as a team.

Feel free to check out our updated design document.

Here is a link to our game made in Unity.  If you don’t have Unity web player, you need to download it.

Controls for the game:

  • Use WASD or Arrow keys to walk
  • Hold Shift and use WASD or Arrow keys to run
  • Use the mouse to look around
  • Space bar to jump
  • Press E to interact with certain objects
Unity

3D Nyan Cat Home Built in Unity, Maya, and Mudbox

Rebecca Vessal

Hey guys,

I promised I would upload some pictures of my 3D work, but I got something better!  Here is a video of a 3D Nyan Cat Home I built with a team in my 3D modeling and animation class.  I made the cake, table, rug, cat litter box, cat scratch post models in Maya, UV mapped them, normal mapped the little box, and animated Nyan cat.  My teammates made the rest of the models and UV mapped them.  Then we exported the models to Unity and added colliders to them.

Use WASD to move, Spacebar to jump, and mouse cursor to look around in the scene.