Week 02 Schedule

The Unity Tanks! Tutorial

• Technical elements?
• Design elements?
• In relation to lighting and/or camera?
• Affordances for experimentation?
• Anyone make variations already?
• Note there is now a TANKS! Unity Package with Pluggable AI available on this repository

Editing

• in the Odessa Steps sequence of Battleship Potemkin
• in Un Bout de Souffle
• in 30 Flights of Loving

Multiple cameras

• in Unmanned
• in Don't feed the monkeys
• in IO Interloper
• in Storyteller

Using a camera

• In Funny Games
• in I Wish I Were the Moon

Pippin's past games with lights/cameras

• Lighting in v r 1
• Light and camera in v r 2
• Reflection and refraction in v r 3
• Third person camera in Game Studies
• Webcam in Let's Play: Ancient Greek Punishment: Art Edition Edition

Technical resources for design and implementation

• Manual
  • https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/LightingInUnity.html
  • https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/CamerasOverview.html
• API
  • https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Light.html
  • https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Camera.html

Experimental Game Design

TANKS!ES

• https://github.com/pippinbarr/tankses
• Feel free to clone and explore
• Discuss design and technical strategies via experiments