Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → MiniLD → MiniLD 67 → Pakku's Edge
By mcmutton
It's actually pretty fun to play pacman in 3D, I like it. a bit stressing when you can't see from above like in the original and too afraid to stop and look back to see if they are behind you XD
I'm a beginner with unity too, how did you make the circling camera? and what did you use for the AI/Path-finding?
* just a note, the back button didn't work in the credits, and pressing ESC doesn't exit.
Thanks for the bug report on the credit button... Curse me for changing sth in the method in the last second. :D
Reuploading that now... (not really important, but otherwise it will annoy me ^^)
For the circling camera it's just basically only one line in c# code:
transform.RotateAround(ReferencePoint.transform.position, Vector3.up, 6f * Time.deltaTime);
The reference point is a public variable where I assign a GameObject placed in the middle of the map.
The pathfinding is basically all done by unity. Setting up a NavMesh is basically 1 click. After that you give the enemy gameobjects a navmesh agent component and have to tell that one what it's destination is.
The navmesh agent will handle the rest. Just have a short glance at the unity navmesh tutorial. There is really not much you have to do. As long as your map/level is pretty easy the automatic functions work great.
I probably screwed up when chosing the destination... since I tried to imitate the original Pacman AI for each personality/ghost.
I need to try the navmesh sometime, I never needed it until now.
Thanks.
Nice work! I liked the incorporation of jumping. Just my opinion, but I think it would have been cool if the player keeps moving along a path and when a turn is necessary the player presses the corresponding key. This would make it so the player sticks to a grid like the original pac - man. Also, maybe make the dots a bit bigger because I found that walking along the path i would easily pass them and would have to go and recollect them. Overall, great work!
Great game, the jumping mechanic worked nicely and cutting corners to avoid ghosts was really cool.
@geekguy:
Yeah I thought about having the orbs gravitate towards the player when you're close/them beeing sucked in. But wasn't sure at the end, since you could use it as a tactical choice at which time you want to use the red powerups by avoiding them...
Putting the players "on rails" would be quite the opposite I tried to achieve originally, which would be more freedom and some parkour between buildings (which was obviously way too much for me). But if I continue the game it would be still going into this direction...
All in all thanks for your feedback. :)
And thanks to you too Steven. ^^