MyoRun

This past 2 weeks ha been a huge progress. At this point the game side of things are finished. All the previously mentioned bugs, that potentially prevented from having a playable and robust game, are gone, and the game can be played “endlessly”. I solved the issue with switching lanes by moving the positions based on a fixed time loop instead of a velocity dependent positioning. Because it is a position dependent, when the position gets to a certain region,…

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This week I created more obstacle sets and randomization for the gifts. The coins(gift boxes) are placed to look more random to improve playability and enjoyability. I also have been working on creating a UI to indicate number of gift boxes collected – like a scoring system. This is important because this will be a metric used to measure player’s performance over time to ultimately measure playability of the game. Later this week I found a serious bug in the…

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This week I created obstacles that are appropriate for the game and implemented obstacle collision using Mesh Collider in Unity. I used a planar mesh to check for collision when the character is moving straight into the obstacle. But a different implementation is required when the character tries to move left when the obstacle is there, or when the character jumps onto the obstacle. Next week’s goal is to implement gravity and jump so that the character can jump onto…

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This week I developed character movement and infinite terrain feature. One of the easiest way to burden the game main thread is to infinitely create roads and terrains as the character moves forward. This eventually take up large unnecessary game memory. We can clear up the issue by deleting the objects that are behind the character. Because I expect many more objects to be created at run time (coins, obstacles, etc) I decided to just move the road that is…

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Because I got to finish the UDP Mock controller last week, I started this week ahead of schedule, and I got more time to work on the game itself. I got to test out and confirm that Unity was responding accordingly and quickly with the UDP Mock controller at this point the next step on the UDP side is to hook it up with real muscle controller and test things out. Now, I am working on making the early backbone…

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This week I finished the UDP Connection socket and Mock Muscle Controller The development and testing was done in 4 parts: Made both UDP Streamer and Receiver in Python. Rewrote the Receiver in C# and tested its functionality. Integrated the Receiver in the Unity game. Wrote a Mock Muscle Controller that sends data from keyboard inputs using Streamer full testing. This intermediate step of (2) was necessary because (3) has more complicated process, generally taking longer time to debug, so…

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