The Crane Game

"You travel far and wide to see a lone crane machine floating in the abyss."

The Crane Game.

Controls:

WASD, Arrows Keys 

- Move Crane

Spacebar 

- Lower Crane down, press space again to lower it faster.

Tools Utilized:

Unity 

Blender

Development Time Period:

Hour 1: 

Was mainly getting the rigid bodies setup with the wall bouncing balls along a box, I thought it'd be cooler if it was a 3D space instead of just a 2D one which was originally the plan. Then I got to add the crane that moves up and down.

Hour 2:

Here I kind of had to figure out what I wanted to do with the game because there was a lot but not too much that could be implemented realistically. I went with adding UI elements, speeding up the crane a little,  adding the spawner for a custom amount of balls (final game only has 10 but it can be any amount), 

I also realized it was kind of hard to know where the crane is going in 3D space so I tried adding in a shadow which took al ot longer than expected because it came with bugs. Then I added little shadows for the balls which I think could've been better but I couldn't fix in time.

and finally a quick ScreenShake effect, which did not work until the final hour.

Hour 3:

Here is where I had to basically add all of the art since it was a default Unity project at this point, I went on Blender and tried to make a crane and crane machine model as quickly as possible to the point where texturing was not an option, so I thought a solid red color for the machine would be ideal. 

I also had to remove the glass part of the crane machine because I did not know how to do that in Blender, so I just put some walls up with a transparent material around the stage in Unity. 

Lastly the music and sound effects. I did not have any time for them so I used a premade song  from my steam game Escape from The Sun. (link down below)  and then I got some metal sound effects from zapsplat. I used a cool space png for the whole skybox of the game and then added point lights to all of the balls and with that I call the game finished.

Thanks for Playing!

Here is that Steam Game, Escape From The Sun: (I heard its pretty cool) 

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2303670/Escape_From_The_Sun/