First Playable of The Magic Gate

Progress on the game is going okay, nothing great. I've got most of the map built, the only thing I'm missing is the grass and the buildings. I have downloaded a fantasy house but am having difficulty putting it in so for the time being I have 3D rectangles as placeholders. I have all the collectibles placed around the map and I got them to rotate but I'm having difficulty getting the script to make the player pick up the orbs when the player walks into them. I'm also have difficulty with the player character. I tried to set up a third person character but the camera wouldn't follow them so for the time, I have a first person character in as a placeholder. I also made the world map bigger then I expected so I might have to increase the players speed to make up for it. I also need to add borders and a sky box to the game. So over all progress is okay but could be better.

(Overview of the game world)

(Player starting point)

Game Fun

This week I read the article "Natural Funitivity" by Noah Falstein. The article explored the question of what makes a fun game. He starts off by discussing what fun means as a concept and how it's hard to define. But he says it's linked to our ancestral sense of survival, saying that video games connect to our sense of survival which in turn if fun to us. He also listed the three types of fun we enjoy on a mental level. First is psychical fun, doing psychical activities appeals to our sense of survival. Social fun, where we like to interact with other people since we are social creatures. And finally mental fun, where enjoy challenges that make us think hard.

Link: https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/130573/natural_funativity.php?page=1

(A drawing of a caveman hunting. Found here.)

Prototype

There's nothing much for this post due technical issues I'm have with Unity. But I did get some things done. I first drew out a world map with key for my game world.

(World Map)

I then drew a character sketch of the player character, Frank the Knight.

(Play Character sketch)

And I started work on my game but I'm having technical difficulties that I need to fix before I continue any further with it.