[GAME] Snow Days - First State Text 101 Adventure

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Hi - long term programmer - but first time game writer here!

I think I may have posted in the wrong place initially…
I’ve made my own “Prison” style state based text adventure called Snow Days - should take about 30 seconds to complete! Decided not to extend it further for the time being.
Interested to know what you guys think. I’ve hosted it on gamebucket so it should be around for a little while.
Thanks Ben for the course - even though I am an experienced programmer I am finding it fun to repurpose my skills into a different environment - programming for business applications isn’t quite the same as programming for games.
Jason

Snow Games on GameBucket

This version is the WebGL Version with unity 5

Unity 5 WebGL Version

#2

Cool game, Jason. Love that image you added to it. What font is that?

I think it’s great that you’re trying game programming now. The switch is a little bit of the left-brain/right-brain thing, isn’t it? Although I enjoy programming (and have done so even before this course for various projects), I have a liberal arts background and like creating things in general, so switching between the engineering and creative roles comes fairly easily to me. How do you like it so far?

Looking forward to seeing what else you make in the course!

Oh, and I went a little crazy with my project. There are a ton of states, and a lot of them loop back on each other. Fun coding, actually, because I learned how to use Unity’s coroutines in the process. :slight_smile:

#3

Thanks for your kind comments. The font is called Harbour Font and I used a linier gradient to get the effect.

I’ll take a look at your project in a moment. Need more caffeine first. Just been doing a JavasScript assessment and then had to mark other students code (nothing like peer pressure on a Sunday morning!)

I’m finding the transition interesting - its a real shift from writing financial reports to something as creative as games writing. I’m getting chance to stretch my creative writing (something that I was horrible at many years ago when I was at school). I’m also juggling several different training courses at the moment, so I do a bit of unity now, a bit of JavaScript code and then back to universal windows applications or even some basic Java. I’m trying to cover a lot of bases to ensure I at least know something about what interviewers are talking about. I forgot how hard job hunting was. It’s been 25 years since I last needed to look for work!

I’ll let you know what I thought of your TEXT 101 adventure in a bit.

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