boardOfSnow

MUCH was learned on my second ever game project in Unity. Some major points to highlight:

-  Functional UI with two click buttons. Learned how to create and operate between 2+ Scenes using Unity.SceneManagement.

- Creating and Manipulating Closed 2D Sprite Shapes while adding Edge Collider & Surface Effector 2D to allow for player movement 

- Surface Effectors speed cannot change from positive to negative when our player script is written to increase baseSpeed of effector based on user Input (up arrow changes baseSpeed to boostSpeed of the Surface Effectors).  Needed to utilize a foreach() conditional as we used multiple (3) surface effectors.  ex. foreach (SurfaceEffector2D effect in effectors)

- First time using AddTorque() to account for Left/Right arrow spinning of the player

- The Rigidbody's mass, gravity, linear, and angular drag are all effected by the torque amount.

- Calling the particle system via script through finish line, check points, and snowboard ground effects

- Learned the difference between public and [SerializeField] variables

- Added SFX audio to our crash and checkpoints

- Added our first 3 animations to the games background

- Successfully deployed our first Virtual Camera for 3rd person action

- Destroying gameObjects with a delayed timer variable in order to allow for animations or particle effects using the Invoke() method.

- Becoming more proficient in particle usage and effects

- Utilizing Trigger Colliders to update text on the UI Canvas for scoring purposes. 

-Adding tags to gameObjects in order to create conditionals around specific collisions or triggers.

A few of the many core and fundamental takeaways that were learned in this project. Our next goal for this specific project is to add another level that has to be completed backwards by the player. Maybe the camera is changed with this transition as well...