Week 12 Game Creation - Theme Space Survival

Like my last post on Game Creation this one will also follow the same process as my other Game Creation post, with the theme being "space survival". In class we each got a piece of paper with four columns the first column being something to do with space after writing down one item we handed the piece of paper to the person on our left and then wrote another item in the column we did this again two more time before we placed the pieces of paper in to a stack and then got handed a random piece. We then started column two with the first thing we wrote down was something that we needed to survive in space, an item that is needed to survive, a ally to help you and an enemy for the game which could be anything. the final two columns were three games from the arcade era of video games and final column being an item that does not exist and a place that does not exist.


Using these places, objects and things I needed to create 4 games with the theme of "space survival". In my first game you will have to run along the surface of the moon picking up O2 tanks to survive and try to reach your moon base.

The second game will have you play as a spaceship that needs to blast shooting stars out of the sky using the food pickups as fuel for your ship.

The third game you play as a blackhole that needs to grow bigger to do this you control it to swallow objects to make the blackhole bigger and pass the level, as the blackhole gets bigger so do the objects that it swallows and the bigger the object the more points you get.

My final game is a first person survival game where you play as a scavenger that goes around to abandoned or derelict space ships/stations to collect supplies so he can survive in space, with your ship you can scan the derelicts to see what they have and what you might need an example would be if on your ship you were low on food and a space station that you found had some then you will need to go over to find it so you can restock your supplies.

Now that i have four games I pick one that I would work on and go through the process of a in-depth design of the game and its workings

I've decided to go with the fourth game because of the simple design matched with the fun of exploring space and trying to survive in it. controls would be the simple W,A,S,D keys for your left, right, forward, and backwards while you use the mouse to move the camera to look around and the space button to fire your blaster. The only other mechanic would be your ability to collect different supplies to survive exploring space such as scrap(For fixing and upgrading the ship), oxygen(For your space suit so you can explore ships without any), Food(need resource to live), medicine packs(to fix wounds and replenish health) just to name a few of the resources to live and continue exploring space.

  Assets List

• Hopkins (Character)
• supplies
• enemies
• level tracks

Audio List

• Munching sound(when Hopkins picks up food)
• dark scary ambient music
• Cry of pain (when Hopkins gets hit)

With an asset and audio list done work on the game would begin and that is the process of my second unity game.