You can try it HERE!

I’ve got some metrics tracking implement which is working out great and it’s super easy to use.  As we use metrics a lot in work for design I’ve come to realise how useful it can be as a tool for the game designer.

If you’re interested in playing you can try the game here.

So with this constraint I considered how I could approach an art style that I could quickly develop but that would also work stylistically.  What I’ve developed so far is a big deviation from the original design but I think it meshes well with the gameplay, it definitely sets a more serious tone which is good and bad.  It’s not final, but here’s a quick peek of how it looks in the editor.

As part of reviewing GUI options I came across ex2d.  I’m looking into using it as a sprite solution across the entire game to minimise the work I need to do on this front.  Over the next 1-2 weeks I’m planning a short investigation into how well it performs and I’ll update depending on how that goes.  At $25 it’s a steal compared to SpriteManager2 and it looks like the ex2d workflow will better suit my own pipeline.

Game Design is still a bit murky at the minute but that is one of the joys of working on my own, radical overhauls of how the game will play can be done without upsetting myself too much and I’m always willing to do it if it’s in the best interests of the game.

Enough talk from me, here’s the web demo(Unity player required):

(You can use up/down arrow keys and space as controls)

Over the next few weeks I’ll try add a few posts about the masters project to date, how I ended up with the game I’m developing and how development has gone so far.  Overall I’d say that Unity is an amazing engine especially for prototyping 3D games, compared to UDK which can be quite impenetrable, Unity gives you access to an entire engine and the community support for it is amazing.

For now I’m going to leave you with a link to a very early prototype of my game- the mouse controls are ok but it feels much nicer on the iPad. Here she is: