Breach - Week 15 Development Blog

As in the week prior I created a basic level block out I saw this week as a good opportunity to begin establishing a game loop. The best way to achieve this was to begin creating the hostage enemy as it would allow me to create the hostage scenario by setting a value of hostages in the scene that if met the game would end. Using Mixamo animations I was able to create a parent object comprised of both hostage and enemy. In the future I will implement code which separate the hostage from the parent allowing for the hostage to run towards the exit.

For the time being however, I decided that for this week I would aim towards getting a prototype of the enemy which at a base level functions as I intended. This would be achieved by placing a Debug.Log in my voice recognition code in order to display whether or not the enemy will react to the players commands.

Lastly I added a weapon the the enemy model (which was not included when imported). This was achieved by placing the gun model under the arm bone, by doing this it will mean that once animations are integrated the weapon will stay in the correct position and move alongside them.

Now that a solid framework for the hostage enemy has been established in the upcoming week I would like to develop it further. The main point of focusing on the hostage enemy specifically is based around the idea of establishing a gameplay loop. Simply put, I view the hostage enemy as best means to establish a loop as it is relatively simple to achieve. The player rescues all of the hostages and the game ends.