Project Outline Breakout Poetry is a game about breaking blocks to form poems. Each block contains a word or phrase, which are added to a final poem. You break them via a ball and paddle, as in the iconic Breakout (Atari, Inc., 1976) as well as the later Arkanoid (Taito, 1986). Figure 1 and Figure 2 (end … More Breakout Poetry Concept Outline
While developing the concepts the discourse with peers and tutors was quite broad compared to the concept itself. There was talk of things like the game reading the poem and generating the next word to be revealed to make sense, or connection words being automatically put into the poem according to grammatical rules. As I … More 01 — Poetry Generation and Misunderstandings
This is just some of the leftover tabs after struggling with creating random numbers in varying contexts. I knew my game had some potential to experiment with random generation, but I did not expect it to be about technical implementation of rather simple RNG (in concept and design). Here I’ll go over the few different … More 02 — Random numbers
After sorting out some peculiarities of the template and getting back into the mindset of C# coding (it’s been a few years, and I wasn’t exactly good to begin with), I’ve got the game sorted in a basic fashion. And man, basic or not, it works so well. Since I was very young I wanted … More 03 — The Game Works: I’m Hooked
So I used this free template from Daniel Buckley to get started: https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/templates/packs/block-breaker-template-63173. It’s really basic stuff, some of which I’ve stuck with and some of which I’ve had to remove/replace/improve. Paddle and ball movement was pretty straight forward. For vertical movement I used the same movement system as what was in place for horizontal … More 04 — Template, Iteration and Changes
I made the first level through quite a lot of iteration, but it still can produce some pretty nonsensical stuff, so I haven’t been as picky with subsequent ones. It’s still been quite hard picking words, however, both finding words that I like and figuring out which work together (changing positions lets me influence the … More 05 — More Levels
Here’s my gameplay video in case it’s needed: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1XPmaTvuUvJkmlsCLifvjY8NkicOeyT4Z. The assignment description says to put this in the blog, and then the guide for what to hand in says it should be in the zip with the artifact, so I’ll do both for safety (it also says the blog should be in pdf or doc … More 06 — Retrospect
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