Drunken Pirates - The Block-Breaker Game

Key Learnings:

Title Screen

Title Screen

  • Basic C#

  • Basic Unity 2D

  • Basic Game Development

  • Basic Asset Creation (sound, image)

  • Game-Testing & Bug-Fixing

This was a solo side-project that I decided to take on in June. It involved learning some basic C#, Unity Engine, and other aspects of the game development process. Aspects of this project were (obviously!) tutorial led. This was purely a personal project there were no deadlines or required outcomes, I simply wanted to learn more about Unity / C# / Game Development, and I intend to follow this up by learning how to make some more games with the engine and I’ll publish reviews for those as I go!


Solutions:

Challenges:

  • I used a mixture of the Unity Scripting API Manual, Udemy and YouTube tutorials to drive the coding aspects of development.

  • I sent the game to my friends who played it and gave me tuning advice and mentioned any bugs they spotted.

  • I utilised a mixture of tutorial assets, open-source assets on YouTube (SFX), and I made a small number of assets myself.

  • Level design was really fun. I spent some hours searching on YouTube to identify pirate themed items to turn in to levels!

  • No previous experience coding.

  • Finding bugs & tuning.

  • No asset creation experience (SFX or Art).

  • No level design experience.

Areas for Improvement:

  • More levels to add more completeness.

  • Variable speeds, difficulties and more variety of power-ups.

  • Better SFX with a soundtrack ideally for finish.

Final Thoughts:

I’m really happy with where my first game has ended up even if it isn’t 100% polished. Games are rarely perfect and this one will be the same. I do intend to keep revisiting this and may even do a project update in a few months once I’ve smoothed out some of the bugs and added more content to the game. In the meantime, it’s a great start to my adventure of learning how to make games!

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