Weekly game update 1

This week was the first week for project: island in the sun, and after making the project, I started looking for assets. The first place to look was on opengameart.org. I got a red biplane asset from there to use as a placeholder until I find some better assets. I will also look on the itch.io free game assets to find 8 or 16 bit style plane sprites so it can fit the theme better. 

In this screenshot it has the placeholder plane asset which I will change for a better one in the future and 2 white bars at the top and the bottom. Those are temporary and there so the plane wouldn't fall out of the game screen when I was getting the basic movement to work, but there will be some kind of ground later on so it will stop you from flying off the screen and cheating your way to victory. The second thing I did was to add a player movement script that makes the plane go up and down, all though the plane could flip if you had it set to a high enough speed or had a collider hitbox that was bigger than the plane. The speed of how fast the plane moves can be changed in the settings but if you put it too high it can get stuck in the floor or roof, so it is currently set to 10. The polygon collider was the best choice for this and freezing the Z position on the rigidbody menu stopped the potential flipping out of the plane as seen in the first demo. Another feature that is in the works currently is forward and backward movement to go with the up and down movement, as suggested to me during the first peer review session. Basically, the summary or the tldr of that is I added a floor and a roof, added a plane placeholder sprite for the player and a controls for moving the plane up and down at a set speed. Next big thing apart from player movement and sprites is the background and the levels, so I will probably add a non moving background with on screen obstacles and enemies.

reference used for plane asset

Bert-o-Naught 2014, Red Biplane, OpenGameArt.org, viewed 17 April 2023, <https: opengameart.org="" content="" red-biplane="">.</https:>