My First Devlog - Goals for 2021

I've decided to make and publish 1 game a month in 2021. To stay motivated I will post devlogs and try to be more active in general.

In december 2020 I finally decided to start learning how to make games. I went with Unity since it has so many tutorials and it's quite powerful. I have some drawing, music and graphic design skills but I had absolutely ZERO programing experience before this.

After a month of jumping around different courses and getting lost I decided to go with BlackThornProd's "Make your first 2D game" course on Udemy.  FALLING DOWN DOWN DOWN is the result of what I learned from it.

CHALLENGES

• Programming is the biggest challenge of all and one of the reason why I kept to game so simple. I already learned so much in these past weeks but I know I only scratched the surface. 
• Staying commited to finishing the project. It's so easy to give up and move on to the next thing once the development gets too challenging. 

FUN PARTS

• Drawing and animating characters is my favourite part of the project. I love seeing my characters come to life and making fun animations like the run animation of the player.
• Bringing all the parts together and actually playing something I built.

UNSOLVED PROBLEMS

• The mute button doesn't work perfectly.
• The time is displayed in seconds only (even after 60 seconds, it doen't convert to minutes).
• There is no record of your best time.

GOALS FOR FEBRUARY'S GAME

• Improve my C# skills.
• Learn to use the particle system.
• Draw at least one character with more details : arms, facial expressions, more animations.

Thank you for reading, see you next month !