Journal Entry 1-2

Date: 04.03.2025

Activity:  

• Went through environment preparation (Unity account, Unity Hub, Unity Editor,  2D Game Kit, VS)
• Did the small in-editor tutorial for 2D platformer microgame (getting familiar with the editor, small changes so no build attached for this one)
• Went through the Unity Learn tutorial
• Made a level using the 2D game kit and its tutorials

Notes:

The tutorials for the 2D game kit are nice and intuitive, just like the included assets. I ran into a couple of problems while making my level. First, I couldn't figure out how to change "Color" in the SpriteRenderer component of the Sky as an action from another game object. I have a trigger for a hardmode in the level that I wanted to dim the sky. Also for this trigger, I couldn't figure out how to access the Damager script or projectille prefab scripts inside of the Enemy Behaviour component. I edited the damager script to allow changing the amount of damage dealt, I was able to change this for the acid, but not the enemies. There seem to be a couple of bugs I am not sure how to fix. One of them is the health UI not updating when health is lost. The health loss seems to be tracked correctly - the player can die - but the UI doesn't update to show empty hearts. Also, I have an info post to signify the end of the level, that resets the zone using SceneControllerWrapper.RestartZone, but it only works once and on subsequent activations/level completions nothing happens.

Invested hours: 

• Installations: 1 hour
• Tutorials: 1.5 hours
• Level construction and tinkering: 1.5-2 hours

Outcome:

Build (uploaded as .zip of folder where I built the WebGL version. The HW instruction document says to upload a .exe but a WebGL version seems to not give an .exe only a .html and I also needed to run it through a local webserver)