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Unity Free Tutorials

These are the Unity tutorials I watched. I watched this one because I was thinking of adding in a cursor but I am not sure if I want it for my game. I want to have a scoreboard at the end of my game. I am still looking for a different video to how to make a scoreboard. This video looks difficult and there are different parts. I want to make a simple one. I haven't tried doing this yet but watching this video it looks too long and difficult for me to do it.

Games Testing

This reading blog is about testing the game and criticism within our game. Testing and getting feedback on your game will let you know what is and isn't working. Solo Testing , this article talks about how there are different kinds of playtesting, such as Bug Testing, Focus Testing, Usability Testing, Balance Testing and Fun Testing. All the testing have some common elements. Each test has different goals and knowing what goal you want to achieve when testing them will let you know if it works or not. If it works perfect, if not we have to go back and see where the problem is and fix them and test them again to see if it work this time. There are different playtesters, for example, yourself, other game designers, close friends and family, experienced gamers and complete strangers. Each tester has their own strengths and weaknesses. Giving criticism  was another article I read. This article talks about how criticism is a good thing. When you are giving feedback to someone gi

Alpha

The game is slowly getting to where I want it to go but I am still having a problem with making the player collect the animal and instant death when hitting the "zookeeper" When I add in the codes to make the player collecting the animal it wouldn't work but it collecting the "key" works if you go over it and makes a ding sound so I know its working. Either today or tomorrow I will work on it again and see if it will work. Hopefully, it works. The instant death still wouldn't work for me, the "zookeeper" either doesn't move or it goes off the floor. I added in more animals and zookeeper to make the game more interesting. I didn't want to have too many levels since it only for a project and I'm not making a real game for everyone in the world to play. So I'm thinking of having at least 3-4 levels. I am also thinking of having an item that makes you go faster but I don't think that's possible for me to do since I can&#