Roll A Ball Extreme!!
My independent project for this year is a 3D game, where the character is a ball rolling around a mountainous environment collecting pickups. The game is momentum based so its super fun to use your momentum to your advantage.
The most difficult part of making this game was the ball player character. I had organically used a prefab from a pre-made ball character, the main problem with this character was I couldn't make the character have a regular 3rd person camera without the camera spinning around the ball as the ball rolled. Eventually i just made the camera first person. With the game becoming first person the feeling of momentum is greatly increased. Afterwards i designed a lot of the map around this feeling of momentum and I also had to remake the map a few times over. Then I doubled the size of the player and added pickups.
An interesting mechanic of the game is that there is no jump button your ability to go up requires you to give yourself enough momentum by going up and down the hills.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VDvoJVoZsiteq_4SgcOpOFLc1KXyRdvP/view?usp=sharing
The most difficult part of making this game was the ball player character. I had organically used a prefab from a pre-made ball character, the main problem with this character was I couldn't make the character have a regular 3rd person camera without the camera spinning around the ball as the ball rolled. Eventually i just made the camera first person. With the game becoming first person the feeling of momentum is greatly increased. Afterwards i designed a lot of the map around this feeling of momentum and I also had to remake the map a few times over. Then I doubled the size of the player and added pickups.
An interesting mechanic of the game is that there is no jump button your ability to go up requires you to give yourself enough momentum by going up and down the hills.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VDvoJVoZsiteq_4SgcOpOFLc1KXyRdvP/view?usp=sharing