The progress of the development of 3×3.

Hope you’ll enjoy it too. 3×3 Final version.

– Henning

• I have opened the sides of the tunnel and added some stars to get away from the very claustrophobic feel.
• I added a single power up in form of the ability to remove an entire wall. The power ups spawn every 10 to 20 seconds and they stack.
• The biggest change is the textures of the boxes. I really spend a lot of time trying different textures, shapes and colors, still I’m not 100% satisfied, but I think it’s better than before.

If anyone would like to do some textures for the game, feel free to contact me, I’m sure you could do better than what I ended up with

One thing suggested that I would have liked to include, was an idea to have the tunnel twist and turn. But as this was never the intention, the code would have to be rewritten from the ground up. So this will, if ever, have to wait to future project.

Play version 10. Enjoy and please send feedback.

– Henning

I have used the last days to add a lot of small things to the game, tweaking it, and playing it, again and again. I also had a friend play it, a lot, to see if I missed something obvious.

Here’s a list of what I have done.

• Added particle effect for the box explosions.
• Updated sound effects.
• Added Gui Skin
• Added Font
• Changed resolution to 1024×768.
• Player control, motion can now be changed in mid move.
• Collider made smaller for when player is rotating.
• Added Crash SFX
• Updated Move class to separate horizontal and vertical movement to allow diagonal movement.
• Added 10000/15000/20000 points SFX
• Added level 10/15/20 SFX
  
• Added Audiosource mini buffer to hold 4 audio sources.
• Adjusted colors of boxes to make them easier to distinguish.
• Added plane to slowly revile the boxes, and not just pop into existence in the back of the scene.
• Updated all level and point SFX.
• Adjusted music slowdown to 0.75 instead of 0.5 when dead.
• Changed font to Plasmatica by Apostrophic Labs.
• Adjusted GUI boxes to match the new font

The best update, is the ability to move freely, and in all directions. I thought this would be a pain to make work as I wanted, but with a few changes to the already existing moving class, and the separation of horizontal and vertical movement, it was surprisingly easy.

One thing I didn’t expect to give me any problems was the colors of the boxes, but as I tried to make the colors easier  to distinguish from each other, the bigger problems I got with the lighting settings. First the scene was overlit when the boxes came close to the spot close to the player,  then under lit. Then the ambient light made everything look flat, and so on. So I ended up spending almost 3 hours adjusting colors and light settings. But I’m finally happy with the result.

After I added more sound effects I found that they would cut off each other, so I added a mini buffer, to hold 4 audio sources and use the first available. This gave a hole new, and more complete feel, to the game.

Hope you enjoy the game And have time to send me some feedback.

– Henning

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

This means that I have to find some music, sound effects, make some better looking graphics, and what I find hardest of all – make the menu system! I’ll keep it as simple as possible.

After I did the DNH game for the GIG 2013, I will not be making an online highscore list. I might do a cookie based one, so the players best score will remain between sessions, but that’s it.

One thing I would really like, is a better player controller. As mentioned in “Player movement script for the 3×3 POC” the motion is done in steps and you can’t move diagonal or change direction while moving. This I need to do better. And I will

Lets see where the game takes me.

– Henning

For the movement script, I wanted the player to move in a continuous motion and not in discreet jumps. The player should also be able to keep moving in one direction holding down a direction button.

To keep track of what the player is doing, I first made an enum with the possible motion states.
I guess the enums are self explanatory

enum Moving
{
    NO,
    UP,
    DOWN,
    LEFT,
    RIGHT
};

Now the the logic. If the player isn’t moving, check for player input.

        if (direction == Moving.NO)
        {
            if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.A))
            {
                direction = Moving.LEFT;
            }
            if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.D))
            {
                direction = Moving.RIGHT;
            }
            if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.W))
            {
                direction = Moving.UP;
            }
            if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.S))
            {
                direction = Moving.DOWN;
            }
        }

Now if the player is moving, the enum will be holding the direction of motion and we can move the player.

            switch (direction)
            {
                case Moving.UP:
                    if (moveLeft > 0f)
                    {
                        Vector3 v3 = transform.position;
                        v3.y += movementSpeed;
                        moveLeft -= +movementSpeed;
                        if (v3.y > 1f)
                        {
                            v3.y = 1f;
                            moveLeft = 1.0f;
                            direction = Moving.NO;
                        }
                        transform.position = v3;
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        moveLeft = 1.0f;
                        direction = Moving.NO;
                    }
                    break;
                case Moving.DOWN:
                    if (moveLeft > 0f)
                    {
                        Vector3 v3 = transform.position;
                        v3.y -= movementSpeed;
                        moveLeft -= +movementSpeed;
                        if (v3.y < -1f)
                        {
                            v3.y = -1f;
                            moveLeft = 1.0f;
                            direction = Moving.NO;
                        }
                        transform.position = v3;
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        moveLeft = 1.0f;
                        direction = Moving.NO;
                    }
                    break;
                case Moving.LEFT:
                    if (moveLeft > 0f)
                    {
                        Vector3 v3 = transform.position;
                        v3.x -= movementSpeed;
                        moveLeft -= +movementSpeed;
                        if (v3.x < -1f)
                        {
                            v3.x = -1f;
                            moveLeft = 1.0f;
                            direction = Moving.NO;
                        } transform.position = v3;
                    }

                    else
                    {
                        moveLeft = 1.0f;
                        direction = Moving.NO;
                    }
                    break;
                case Moving.RIGHT:
                    if (moveLeft > 0f)
                    {
                        Vector3 v3 = transform.position;
                        v3.x += movementSpeed;
                        moveLeft -= +movementSpeed;
                        if (v3.x > 1f)
                        {
                            v3.x = 1f;
                            moveLeft = 1.0f;
                            direction = Moving.NO;
                        }
                        transform.position = v3;
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        moveLeft = 1.0f;
                        direction = Moving.NO;
                    }
                    break;
                default:
                    break;
            }

That’s it, not pretty but it works. If I have the time, I would like to make the motion even more fluent. The state change if you keep a key down makes the player give a little jump/jitter as the state goes through NO state before returning to a moving state. But for now it gets the job done

All feedback is welcome, I can’t change if I don’t know what to change.

– Henning

New things added:

• New texture. I only use one for all surfaces.
• Rotation to selected box, to make it visible to the player what box is selected.
• More states to the box objects, to make possible removal animation aso.
• Color click logic, basic game mechanics .

The plan is to make the game run on my old HTC Desire, to learn the mobile part of unity. So for now I’m trying to keep everything to a minimum as not to drive the Desire to it’s knees.

Next things to add:

• Mobile input part, to see if I can’t get the click and swipe part to work.
• Light bound to the box, to illuminate the boxes in the distance, and I might remove the current spotlight..

Future things to add:

• Sound effects.
• Music.
• Score system. How fast you remove boxes, or something like that, have to think about a good way to differentiate different users abilities.

Here you can play version 4, and as before, click to remove blocks and navigate using wasd.

– Henning

I added some game states but only use playing and dead for now.

Next I would like to make the color selection part to only allow you to remove boxes of same color, so if you click a blue box you can only remove another blue box. If you click another colored box the first selected color will change to this color.

Here you can play version 3, click to remove blocks and navigate with wasd.

– Henning