Starting a new 3D Game

Well Hello everyone who reads this. I am Thetra, I work with unity since August 2021 and I do make 2D games most of the Time.

I created 2 3D titles so far so this area is very unsecure for me and I will write down what is going on here and what I stumbled over. 

Into this Gamejam I had a little delayed start so I had to push my self a little to get things going.

Day 1: The Idea

I will make something I have never done before… how about a Towerdefense game?

Yes this will be a fresh genre, nearly no beginner has ever tried sofar. So I will be the…  cut the crap Thetra.

I thought about making a Towerdefense Game and looked into my Assets. There I had a SciFi Package from Kenney which I thought looks great… there are Towers, Aliens, Humans… Ships – what else could I want Perfect!

I created a 3D Project in Unity and put in the Assets – made some Folders for Code and stuff and there I stumbled over the first thing.

In regular projects I would make a Audio Grafics Prefabs Scripts and Misc folder. But this time… I will have Models, Materials and Sprites … also Animations not only for Sprites ? never done that my self. I will figure this out!

First thing in the Sceneview … a Plane, we need to set up the Game somewhere. Next lets put in some Buildings… More Buildings… combine them … Change some Colors by making my own materials and setting them in the Inspector…. Making some Particle effects for Spacegates. Adding the Charakters… a Ship … oh there is some Crystals on Rocks… can I … yes I can make them look like they disappear by set them Inactive… keep that in mind. I used about 3h to just place Buildings and make Prefabs out of them for the Base and Manufactore and a Simple Tower.

Next we add in a Portal for the Enemy to spawn… okay… now to the Tutorials in the internet…

Youtube took like 2h of my lifetime until I finaly could say: I have nothing because I watched shorts and no tutorials, and the single one tutorial I started to watch wasn’t helping.

Lets have a look at my Tutorial Project I made 2 weeks ago. There is an Enemy script I may use. WRONG! It is for an Melee Action battle system and has Aggro range! Nice I can use nearly NOTHING from that code.  (I copied it anyway and rewritten nearly everything inside of it)

Then the new Idea occurred: I make a Third Person Game, I wrote a Controller in a tutorial two weeks ago, maybe I can use the movement! YES that works! Nice - > learned sofar: Nothing. NICE!

I had to change a lot of the Code – for animations, attacking etc. but I got the gist of it and at the end of the Day I had a Charakter runnnig around who could jump. Great.

Time to go to Bed.