I recreated Breakout and added my own spin to it - players must dodge incoming obstacles while also keeping the ball in play! Inspired by segments in Star fox shooter-type games.
For this game I worked on:
- Designing the gameplay loop: players must dodge incoming obstacles while keeping the ball in play. The game will restart if either of two conditions are met: the players loses all their lives, or the platform is hit by too many obstacles.
- Writing c# code to implement paddle movement and ball bouncing.
- Using shader graph to create the visual effects (fog and abstract wall), and materials.
- Implementing UI for scores and lives.
The visuals of the game were fairly simple to implement. The long corridor-like background is composed of instantiated planes, each equipped with a shader. This shader generates procedural patterns and scrolls them towards the camera. The fog that you see is also a plane whose transparency depends on the depth of the scene sampled at a fragment - this causes the walls near the fog plane to taper slowly into the fog. Here is a breakdown of what the scene looks like while the game is in play.
