Ida Rask

Game Programmer

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Ida Rask

Game Programmer

Börd

Team:

Me | Programmer

Kuutti Paartola | 2D Artist, helping with programming

Project Description

In the beginning of our first project course we got assigned into pairs and our task was to make a Flappy Bird game so we made this super cute Börd with Unity.

Börd can be found in itch.io and is playable on browser.

My part

I wanted to practice my programming skills so Kuutti did all the graphics but he did have more experience in programming than me, so he helped me every time I needed some help.

Programming

Player "jumps" with mouse click or space button press. Player controller also keeps track of the game state and updates scores.

New pillars are instantiated every frame on a random height that gets a tiny bit higher every time so that the game gets more difficult with each pillar.

Game manager basically just shows death screen and writes the score number on the screen.

The game also has a personal high score list that takes five best scores.

We had some troubles getting the high scores to work and spent hours with it until it worked how we wanted. I also tried to duplicate the background after a certain point so it would move smoothly but got it accidentally to look like the plants were turning. We thought it actually looked fun so we decided to keep the "feature".