User Guide and Documentation

Documentation

Comparison to concept

The envisaged gameplay compares fairly well to what was proposed in the concept document, with the biggest difference being the badminton theme of the game. This was abandoned due to time constraints, and difficulty finding suitable sprites. Since this was the least important aspect of creating a working endless runner game, abandoning the concept was of little detriment to the game in this case.

I understand, however, that if this was a more serious game (perhaps something that is crowdfunded) abandoning the theme of the game can have serious consequences.

Asset List

Player.cs - Controls player movement and hitting obstacles, playing sound, effecting the animator

AutoPlayer.cs - Very similar to Player.cs but isn’t manually controlled and it automatically jumps when an obstacle is detected with a raycast

Spawn.cs - Spawns a random obstacle from a list. An coroutine to spawn at intervals which slowly speeds up.

ObstacleMovement.cs - Moves an obstacle to the side and destroys off screen.

RandomYPosition.cs - So that the blade obstacle can have a randomized y transform position.

BackgroundMovement.cs - Lets the background tiles repeat and loop around as they go off screen.

Coin.cs - Plays a sound when a coin hits the player.

SceneNavigation.cs - Allows R to restart a scene and M to go the menu.

EnterStart.cs - Allows Enter key to go to the main game scene.

User Guide

Runner Boy:

An endless runner where the goal is to travel as many metres as possible by avoiding obstacles.

A and D keys to move forwards and backwards.

Spacebar to jump - this can be tapped or held for smaller or larger jumps.

Game menu:

Gameplay:

References

https://discussions.unity.com/t/using-the-generic-type-ienumerator-requires-1-type-arguments/224522

https://discussions.unity.com/t/how-to-randomly-select-a-list-index/181519

https://discussions.unity.com/t/how-to-restart-scene-properly/118396

KIT109 tutorials and lectures

Unity documentation All art and audio from Kenney: https://kenney.nl/