Hello World Brandon Burns - ReadMe File

Author: Brandon Burns

Modified: 2025-01-22

0. What is the link to your project on itch.io?

  https://a-spook.itch.io/brandon-burns-helloworld
 

1. What are the controls to your game? How do we play?

  There are no controls.
 

2. What creative additions did you make? How can we find them?

  I replaced the cubes with Maxwell the cat (the black cat), the Oiiaioooooiai cat (the grey one), and The Chonker (the orange one), which are randomly spawned by the CatSpawn object. Don't worry about their names. Their spawn positions are also slightly randomized to make them more dynamic.
There is a giant floating and spinning Maxwell, and the platform created during the tutorial has been replaced with a very flattened orange cat.
All cats have capsule colliders I made to roughly fit their shapes as well as possible with a single collider.
I also wrote a script to destroy the instantiated cats called DestroyOverTime, which reduces some framerate issues I ran into that impacted cat generation.
I used Probuilder to create a box environment and added additional lights of various colors.
 

3. Any assets used that you didn't create yourself?

  I found a 3d model of Maxwell the Cat made by bean(alwayshasbean) on sketchfab.
I also utilized THE CHONKER (gwa gwa cat) by bean(alwayshasbean).
I also used the Oiiaioooooiai - cat asset by Zhuier on sketchfab
 

4. Did you receive help from anyone outside this class or from anyone in this class that is not in a group with you?

  No.
 

5. Did you get help from any AI Code Assistants?

  No.
 

6. Did you get help from any online websites, videos, or tutorials?

  I referenced the Unity Documentation on various occasions for help with the spinning script, random number generation, and DestroyOverTime script. All code is written by me.
 

7. What trouble did you have with this project?

  Getting the spinning/floating script working was a struggle, and it went through a few iterations before I settled on the current one. Generally, I coded a number of things that were (while still relatively simple) more involved than just instantiatiating a gameobject over and over, so I definitely ran into some roadblocks along the way. Thankfully, nothing was terribly difficult, so all I needed was to read some of the Unity Documentation to clear up the problems with my code.
 

8. Is there anything else we should know?

  The web version runs a little slow, I assume because of all the cats being generated, plus the lights, and maxwell spinning all over the place. It should still function just fine.