I am stuck on an assignment for university, could use some assistance

Question

Hello everyone, my name is Luke, been doing a game development course for a few months now, i am currently stuck on an assignment, i have been tasked with making a 3D maze game with 10 different levels that has to contain robot enemies walking around the maze and it has to be a first person perspective in summary without going in too much detail. there are a whole load of other features i need to add also like power ups. but i not really good at grasping programming, i have been using this site to learn as many programming languages as i can but it doesn't seem to be getting any closer to getting the assignment done or improving my understanding on how to do it
i have followed a few of the free tutorials using unity and unreal engine but i was hoping someone with much more knowledge and understanding on this sort of thing could provide me with a step by step specific list or a link of some sort to allow to make progress with this. i would appreciate any guidance/advice or hopefully a friend to provide me with guidance throughout the assignment. thank you

Answer 1

What language are you using with unity?
c# or javascript?

Answer 2

Sounds like a legend of zelda game. Cool.

First, break your task to very small pieces, as small as you can. After that, start solving one problem at a time. eg,

1st, just design an empty room.
2nd, make your player walk all over the empty room .

3rd, add a stationary enemy in your room.
4th, add the ability to shoot.
5th, make the enemy shoot when player comes in line of sight.

6th, add powerup to heal player...............

Finish these small segments one by one, don't think about other problems when solving another.

I think you're getting slowed down because you're thinking about the whole game at once.

Finally, there are some similar zelda type games srep by step guide in youtube using java and liblwjgl. You can take some idea from there.

Happy coding.

Answer 3

Thank you for taking the time out to respond to my message, coding is not my speciality I don't know how to do either of those things, I'm currently learning to use unity, I can understand what you mean and thinking about each task individually instead of as a whole, but I am a complete beginner, so when you say make an empty room, make your player walk around that room etc, I have no idea how to do that either, I just recently finished the c++ programming tutorial but it's just the basics. It doesn't exactly show me how to use the programming to make a game, I'll look into those videos on YouTube, if I can find them and see if provide some insight... And maybe then I can follow the steps you have given me but at the moment I don't have a clue how to do either of the steps you have given me, I do appreciate it though regardless of my own lack of knowledge

Answer 4

c#.. i had a unity course that i brought on Udemy. i have been going through that and learning unity that way. i have made 4 games in it.. i made a text based adventure. a guess the number game, a block breaker type game and also made a side scroller game, making these games has somewhat improved my understanding and making me more comfortable using unity but it is easy enough to follow a video and just copy what is being shown... but doing this maze i am completely struggling with.. i am going to spend tomorrow going over the c# programming course on sololearn to see if that helps with anything. but because i havent found any tutorials that show me how to make a maze type game or something similar its hard to work out what to do.... i have been doing this game development course for about 5 months now. i am interested in getting a job in the video game industry but the programming part of it is just frustrating and complicated to wrap my head around... i am much better and more passionate about character creation and 3D modelling. but due to doing this assignment. it is just preventing me from doing what i want to do which the 3D character modelling because the assignment is on a deadline and havent made any progress with this maze game yet
so any advice will be helpful, literally anything in order to help me make progress on it.. thank you
also... sorry for the late reply i did not get no notification letting me know you had replied so i did not know you had responded. but thank you for remaining patient with me i appreciate your help in any capacity

Answer 5

I'm getting a feeling that your proficiency in C# is not enough.

From your skills I see you've completed th C++ course, so learning C# will be easy for you.

First download the C# programming yellow book by Rob Miles. It's free, just google the name.
Read the book thoroughly from start to end, as you know C++, you can just glance through the biginning chapters.

Do the excercises on the book. Also, after finishing a topic, complete the sololearn segment of that topic. DO NOT take sololearn as your primary learning source, but take it as supplements.

After you've finished the book and feel confident enough in C#, redo your unity course.

I wish I could tell you a shortcut, but unfortunately, there's none.

Also, read the documentation on unity's official website rather than following udemy video tutorials.
You should take the video tutorial as supplements, not primary source of learning.

Answer 6

https://www.amazon.co.uk/C-Programming-Yellow-Book-ebook/dp/B00HNSGM9A
is it this book just for clarification? if not can you send me a link for the proper one please? you have helped a lot i appreciate it nonetheless.. the programming side of things is not the part of making video games that i am passionate about like i said, i am more interested with the character modelling side of things. i understand that learning programming and getting through this assignment is not easy and there is no shortcuts around it. but i don't want to dedicate so much time to learning programming when it is not directly linked to the character modelling that i actually want to do but if you can lead me to the correct book i will buy that or get it if it is free and make progress learning the c# programming and whatever else i need to learn because every little bit of knowledge helps i suppose
so just for clarification you suggest i read this book by rob miles from start to finish, then do the c# programming on sololearn, once i do that, what action do you suggest i take from there?

Answer 7

http://www.csharpcourse.com/

2nd q:
i've answered that in my previous answer, please see the last 3 paragraph.

Answer 8

ok thanks, you have been a big help, ill take heed of your advice? was it the right book in the link by the way?

Answer 9

can you send me the link for the book you was talking about please?