Unity Free Tutorials

                                                           Unity Free Tutorials

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For this post I will be looking at more tutorials that will help me with my game that I found online.

The first tutorial video I looked at is “How to make a Health Bar (Unity 2D Tutorial for Beginners)” by Code Monkey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gtw7VyuMdDc this video will help me make health bar for my characters in my fighting game and the video even helps see how make game items like health bars. This video had helped me by letting me see how to control the health bar with the script.

The second tutorial I looked at is “Creating Game Character Hitboxes in Unity” by comphonia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCWIl8WWJF0 this is another video that has helped since I’m making a fighting game.  Having a hitbox is an important part in making a fighting. This video showed how to apply the hitboxes to my characters and apply damage to the characters. This helped as well because it showed me how to apply damage to different parts of the characters body. This makes the fighting game better because you hit characters in different areas of their body making the fighting more fun and challenging.

So overall both these videos helped me greatly and will help make my game.

Games Stories

                                    Story in games

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Welcome to my blog

I will be looking over some readings. I will be looking at articles on the website Gamastura. These articles will have to do with story in games.

The first article I will be looking at is “Into the Woods: A Practical Guide to the Hero's Journey” by Bod Bates. https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/130742/into_the_woods_a_practical_guide_.php In this article it talks about the type of story Hero’s journey. It talks about the games that use it like super Mario and the legend of Zelda. The hero’s journey is  “A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man.” It also talks about how games with this story need a great villain.

The second reading talks about how game developers need to know more about story and to use in games more. It talks about how games can tell a story in different way compared to other mediums. It says in this article that “story is conflict” and I feel like that is true and is a good way to summarize what a story is.

The additional reading, I read was also on Gamastura. This article is called Should games have stories? By Soren Johnson https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/191861/Should_games_have_stories.php This article talks about if games actual need a story and how the story and the gameplay would clash. The article goes into detail about how hard it can be to have a story in a game and having a good gameplay in the story as well.

Overall these articles talk about how important it is to have a story in a game and you have to be smart when making it so the story and the gameplay don’t clash.