In time I’ll take a new look at it to see if the idea has sparked some new creative energies. But for now the game is dead.

– Henning

 void Update()
    {
        Vector3 v3 = transform.position;
        v3.x += 0.05f;
        if (v3.x >= -1f && v3.x < 1f)
        {
            //Jumpint
            v3.y += (Mathf.Cos((v3.x+1.0f)/2.0f * 3.1415f))*0.125f;
        }

        if (v3.x > 5.0f)
        {
            hitsLeft = 4;
            v3.x = -10;
            v3.y = 0.5f;
        }
        transform.position = v3;
    }

The sheep not getting hit, will have their position and hit count reset and reused when exiting the screen.

– Henning

As the game is going to be have a lot of cartoon violence and blood, I added a blood spray when the projectile (rock) hits the sheep to see if it would work, and I think it does Adjusted way to much on the particle systems parameters for a prototype, but it does a lot for the game feel to have some visual feedback on a hit.

Next couple of tasks will be sheep movement and angle calculations to make the projectiles hit where you aim.

Remember that all the graphics is only placeholders, the final graphics, if the game is fun enough, will be done by someone who knows what they are doing

– Henning

After moving the rigidbody, script and mesh collider to child object the collider is oriented as expected.

The sheepScript removing the sheep now only removed the child object because of the new placement of the script. But that should only be a matter of destroying the parent game object instead of the current game object.

The screenshot is horrible and it’s suppose to, the focus shouldn’t be on graphics for now, but only on getting a prototype up and running to see if the gameplay is fun.

– Henning

Finally got around to start on the mock-ups for the project, but first I created the basic Unity setup and copied reusable scripts from the “Do No Harm” project. Then I made a small batch script that creates my basic folder structure, so I don’t have to create it every time I start a new project.

Drew a few texture items to be able to try out some ideas. Without some textures, I find it very hard to gent a good camera angle for the game and how big the game area should be.

Created a basic Sheep in Blender and discarded it, I still don’t know if I’m going to do the game in 2D, 2.5D or 3D.
Made Player script to be able to fire spheres into the scene and sheep script to allow the user to “kill” it, by hitting it 3 times.

Player script:

    void Update()
    {
        if (Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0))// || Input.GetMouseButton(0))
        { // only do anything when the button is pressed:
            Ray ray = Camera.main.ScreenPointToRay(Input.mousePosition);
            RaycastHit hit;
            if (Physics.Raycast(ray, out hit, 1000))
            {
                Vector3 handPosition = transform.position;
                handPosition.x += 0.5f;
                GameObject projectile = (GameObject)Instantiate(bullet, handPosition, Quaternion.identity);
                // turn the projectile to hit.point
                projectile.transform.LookAt(hit.point);
                // accelerate it
                projectile.rigidbody.velocity = projectile.transform.forward * 20;
            }
        }
    }

Sheep Script:

  private int hitsLeft = 3;

    void OnCollisionEnter(Collision collision)
    {
        GameObject.Destroy(collision.collider.gameObject);
        hitsLeft -= 1;
        if (hitsLeft <= 0)
        {
            GameObject.Destroy(gameObject);
        }
    }

 – Henning

It will of cause be a Unity game, and will have a (small) story, humor, violence and way to much blood.. But still I hope it’s going to be fun to play.

All the graphics will, for now, still be made by myself, so no high end graphics. If the game turns out to be fun to play and people really like it, I’ll try to have some great graphics made for it, but as always, it comes down to money.

I’ll post my progress as blog posts with the category “Don’t fall asheep”.

– Henning