SnailTrails--Prototype

Devlog

• Prototype--Week6--Future Features
  October 10, 2021 by AdamRutledge

  As the development window for Snail Trails has come to a close over the last week of the development cycle, the team has had time to reflect on the prototype in regards to the original concept, what f... Continue reading

  
• Prototype--Week5--FeedbackFromTesting
  October 08, 2021 by esilgY

  "Very fast paced, fun" "It was pretty fun." "Great time waster." Overall we had some great feedback from our play testers. 55% of our play testers rated the prototype 5/5 77% rated the movement as "Lo... Continue reading
• Prototype--Week4--Movement2
  October 05, 2021 by esilgY

  Clipping through walls?! A big effect of the way we choose to do movement was that it ignored standard physics, and used our own system. We choose this for the idea that we didnt really want standard... Continue reading

  
• Prototype--Week4--UI & Bounce Lights
  October 04, 2021 by jzachary

  Early in development the team decided upon a cartoony art style using bright primary colours, feeling this best suits a game about snails leaving trails of slime. This aesthetic has been used to infor... Continue reading

  
• Prototype--Week3--2 players
  October 01, 2021 by AdamRutledge

  We tested out a implemention of controller support for our game. Using the new input system to do this, we set up two player and had them spawn in, but ran into a issue with webGL not recognizing the... Continue reading

  
• Prototype--Week3--Concept Change
  September 29, 2021 by jzachary

  The team has made the decision to turn away from the concept of racers attempting to finish last, and will instead focus on designing a kart racer where the objective is to win. The game still retains... Continue reading

  
• Prototype--Week3--Power-Ups!
  September 27, 2021 by nhassett

  *Disclaimer, this is more of a week 2 post, being posted in week 3 as most of this development happened last week.* So with Snail Trails being a type of "kart-racing" style racing game, we thought it... Continue reading

  
• Prototype--Week2--Building Tracks
  September 16, 2021 by AdamRutledge

  I attempted to build a track for our game, first I copied one of our existing tracks into a new scene, I then deleted most of it and tried to make a track. I didn't know how to join the track pieces t... Continue reading

  
• Prototype--Week2--Brakes
  September 15, 2021 by nhassett

  With the 'unexpectedly opposite' theme behind Snail Trails - Whad to think of a way how to implement the opposite of a self 'nitro' style boost into the game. The solution that we came up with was add... Continue reading

  
• Prototype--Week1--SlimeTrails
  September 04, 2021 by esilgY

  The next major step for our prototype was designing the slime! What even is a snail racing party game without piles of grimy shiny slime? There were two different ways we looked at creating slime, the... Continue reading

  
• Prototype--Week1--Movement
  September 04, 2021 by esilgY

  Working out our snails movement is one of the core elements of our prototype, we looked a few different methods to move a character in unity and I've outlined some of the pros/cons of each and why we... Continue reading

  
• Prototype--Overview
  September 04, 2021 by esilgY

  Snail Trails is a arcade style party kart racing game featuring snails!! The goal is the be the last player across the finish line, sabotage your opponents using various means to increase their speed... Continue reading