CSC 470 - Game Programming

Assignment 3: Flight Simulator

Name your Unity project flight

Description

Create a very basic flight simulator where the player attempts to collect objects spread around the sky as they fly over a terrain (you must use a textured terrain). The number of items that have been collected should be displayed on the screen. In addition to the plane movement and collection, you need to complete at least two of the following challenges.

Challenges

• Make the plane enjoyable to control. This will involve making significant modifications to the sample code from class.
• Display a timer on the screen. If the player fails to collect all the collectable items before it reaches zero, destroy the player and display a “You Lose” message of some sort.
• Make it so the plane can create and launch items forward towards some target (i.e. it can shoot stuff). Something should happen when the launched item collides with the other object (e.g. score should increase or something).
• Make the plane always be slowing down, and have the speed pick up when it collides with one of the collectable items. This can be done by making the speed variable always be decreasing a small amount in Update, and then increase it when the player collides with the item.
• Make it so the plane will crash if it runs into anything other than the collectable items. When the plane crashes, it should return to its starting position.
• Make it all look really good (terrain, plane, etc.).

Resources

• Free Seamless Textures
• Fonts
• Normal map generator(optional)

Turning in your assignment

You will be turning in your assignment by pushing both your Unity project to your Github as well as a WebGL build of your game.

Don’t forget your .gitignore file!

Building your game for the Web

• In Unity, open the Build Settings (File > Build Settings…)
• Click the Add Open Scenes button
• Select “WebGL” and then click the “Switch Platform” button Remember to modify your player settings (remember to disable compression in the Publishing settings - this is described in more detail on the setup page).
• Click the “Build” button
• When it asks you where you want to put your build, create a folder titled flight in your “games” folder located in your main repository for the class (csc470-fall2024). Once you do this, it will take several minutes to build your game, and then you can commit and push your build. After five or so minutes it should be playable at:

    http://YOUR_GITHUB_USERNAME.github.io/csc470-fall2024/games/flight

• If it doesn’t work, you may need to take a closer look at the setup instructions.