Wednesday, April 19th

Class hours: 9:40 – 2:05
Mr. Bohmann
wbohmann@ewsd.org

Week Thirty One

Today’s Notes

Today is an EHS B Day
Today is an early release day. Please communicate with Mr. Bisson where you are going – etc….

9:40 – 9:55 Review and prepare for your One Button Game Pitch (or catch up on Podcast Q.s from yesterday or tilemap

9:55am One Button Game Pitch – Alphabetical Order

One Button Dropbox

Talking Points

Game Name
Quick Summary
Which/What button – what is the core mechanic
Win Conditions
Lose Conditions
Why should we play it?

10:35 Break

10:45 Exploring Game Careers

What Does a Game Designer Do?

Poppy (Lead Programmer) from Mythic Quest – courtesy of Polygon.com

There are lots of areas of expertise in the field of game design. Three primary roles/categories encompass this career path. Those roles include:

Game Designer
Game Programmer
Game Artist

Some of those categories broken down into specific roles include:

Lead Game Designer – defines the game, establishes the core concept and features of the game – big picture person

Level Designer – designs the layout, flow, layout and placement of props, maybe even some scripting

Assets & Environmental Designer – works with the creative director to model the worlds, assets and builds

Content Designer – comes up with the quests, the story, the dialog, the missions and in game material

Systems Designer – determines the collection of mechanics that controls the outcome, combat system or inventory system, magic systems – you get the picture

Economics Designer determines the award system, costs of items (like swords) awards, level ups, damage, etc…

Creative Director – sets the creative course of the game and holds to overall vision together

Game Producer – ensures funding and different roles are working together to produce a high quality game on time

Activity: Career Exploration

Open Google Classroom and look for the Assignment called Game Careers. Explore several jobs (anywhere on the globe) that are hiring in the field of game design or development. Some places to look:

Indeed

Career Builder

Upwork

Look at several jobs to get an idea of what kinds of work you might be interested in. Then, answer the following questions.

What types of jobs are there in game design?
What types of jobs in game design did you look at or find most interesting to you? What did you like?
What kinds of qualifications are necessary for the jobs you looked at? Where are a lot of the jobs located?
What career search engines did you look at? Which did you like the most for career exploration? (from the list below or others)

Submit your Google Doc by Friday, April 21st

11:30 Build a Game Workblock

Do you remember what my favorite Arcade game is? It’s Arkanoid!

We’ve got enough skills to create a nice little breakout game – or at least a minimal viable product to see how everything works.

You’ll need to make some sprites. Photoshop is good for that. I think the original game the sprites 16 pixels for blocks and 32 pixels for the paddle.

Create a New Scene called BreakOut in the Game Programming project

Sprite Assets we need to create: Ball, colored blocks, paddle, border

Physics Material (Bouncy) for the Ball

For the paddle we are going to use a Polygon Collider and make the collider a little uneven so ball bounces with some randomness

Code you need to create:

Movement Script for Paddle (you know how to do this – look at PinBall)
Collision Script to Destroy Blocks (Example)
A Ball Script (see code snippet below)

PreFabs will make our life easier by creating one for each block to include:

Correct Scale
Box Collider 2D
Collision Script

Background Image – here is one you can use

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class Ball : MonoBehaviour
{
    // Movement Speed
    public float speed = 10.0f;

    // Use this for initialization
    void Start()
    {
        GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>().velocity = Vector2.up * speed;

    }
}

This code is going to use a Vector to move the ball up at the start of the game. We can use the speed variable to change the speed of the ball.

Build, Play Test

12:15 Lunch

12:45 Independent Reading

1:10 Break

1:20 Independent Project Worktime of Individual Support

SpriteSheet of 5 Sprites (See Monday)
Room Design using TileMaps (see Tuesday)
Breakout Game (See today)
Career Exploration
One Button Game Assignment (if you did not finish)
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