prototype and First playable

Hello 👋

For week 7 and 8 I was stuck on starting my game because I found it really difficult to create the scene I wanted, which was creating and editing a terrain. It was easy enough to create a simple terrain but after days of trying  I realized what I wanted required skills outside my capability, I wanted to create infinite terrain with grassy environment and a path for my player to run. Most of the resources I found focused on creating the terrain environment  and not a generating terrain which was specifically what I was looking for. Creating a generating terrain involved C# script and methods which were much more complex to what I learned In labs and I did not understand what so ever so I decided to come up with other alternatives. 

I spent a lot of time on this and learned a lot about creating a generating terrain but unfortunately time was running out for me and had to move on but it's definitely something I will continue working on my own time as I feel like I will be able do it with time if I give it another shot.  

Resources I used to try and create the terrain

GENERATING TERRAIN in Unity - Procedural Generation Tutorial
Making an Infinite Terrain with Unity 5
Unity 3D Procedural Terrain Generation

Screenshot of my game 

On Friday the 20th  I switched the idea of creating a terrain to creating the path above. This is a temporary path in my game to get everything working for now but when I make a further progress I want to swap it with path tiles. That's once I am ready to drop in the obstacles for my game. 

This scene I chose to create might not be my first choice but I feel like it suits my game because normally bridges and paths like mine are used for endless runner games and I also mentioned I wanted a straight path the player to run so it's still a win.

At the moment my player is able to run forward and move left and right and also the camera is able to follow the player. 

For next week I want the player to be able to jump and create a generating infinite tiles with obstacles in the scene if possible. 

I spent more than 15 hours on the project and each time I thought I had it things were coming back to square one and I had to start an empty new project but after I stopped working with terrains I found  it easier to work on my project as I was I was doing things I was very familiar with. 

I found the below tutorial easy to follow but the tutorial is for an android game and It was not much of a help so I had to go back to the Unity labs we done.  

all in all I feel like I am in a good place right now and should be able to create the rest of the game. 

Tutorials and Assets 

Unity 3D Endless Runner Game

Basic Motions FREE Pack

-Abdi