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Reflection -

The final game contains all the mini games I intended to create. However I had planned on implementing different difficulties/modes, but I ran out of time because I was focusing on finalizing/getting my main mini games to work. The additional difficulties/modes I intended on adding along with the normal mode were, hard mode and timed mode. I had also intended on creating all of my sprites, UIs and Tile maps, but once again I ran out of time, however I was able to design/create the sprites/assets within the actual gameplay (player, enemies, objects...) which I found to be most important.

Summary of feedback -

In the coin drop, player is a bit too slow or the play area is too large - My thought to fix this was to take the suggestion of reducing the play area.
Gameplay in mini games could be longer - I thought that I could extend the gameplay by increasing scores needed to complete the games and I also made more enemies spawn.
Shooting game could make the bullet shoot faster - Easily increased the bullet speed.
Slow the movement in the shoot game to encourage the use of the dash function - Reduced player speed.
Bug spotted where the spawners in the shoot game can be shot and destroyed - I Turned of the box collider on the actual object, not sure why I added it to the spawner in the first place.
Adding boundaries would be helpful to stop the player from leaving the screen - I brought the boundaries in towards the middle, which also reduced the play area.

Asset list -

Player sprite sheet (regular, and shooter w/ shooting animations)
Player prefab
Playershooter prefab
NPC sprite sheet (similar to player)
Slug sprite sheets
Slug prefab
Spawner prefab (for slug shooting mini game)
Object spawner prefab (for coin drop mini game)
Animator
Animator controller
Tile pallete
Grid
Canvas
Panel
Button/text legacy
Text mesh pro
Scene switcher
Endgame listener script
Player score

References -

ChatGPT. (2024) Assistance with creating C# scripts for Unity project. Personal communication, 20 October.

Andelrodis. (n.d.) 1-Bit Game UI Pack. itch.io. Available at: https://andelrodis.itch.io/1-bit-game-ui-pack (Accessed: [today’s date, e.g., 23 October 2024]). (this was used for button sprites)

User Guide -

Title: Hero Gooby

Controls: WASD for moving, in the shooting mini game you have additional controls which are, mouse clicking for shooting and space bar for a dash function.

Gameplay: The player has to go through three different types of mini games to complete the whole game. You start in a maze where you find a lost NPC, you then proceed to a coin dropper game where you catch the falling coins, and finally you end the game shooting monster slugs spawning from a trash can.