Making a game has always been a dream of mine. When I was in elementary school, I likes to play all kinds of video games. They gave me so much fun and left me with a creative personality. As I grow up, I want to be a game producer. Though I did not choose computer science as my major at NTHU, I still made some progress by myself.

Last summer break, I find a game engine called Unity. It is a program that is used for making games. No matters which type of games you want to make, from 3D action to 2D online card game, you could always find a way on Unity. The best part is that it is the most popular game engine, so it has numerous tutorials and many experts online who can answer my problems. And I used that summer break to make a 2D platformer and realize that it is not that easy. Unfortunately, I finally realize that it is not that easy.

The first challenge I faced is not as interesting as I thought. Although most of the part is fun, such as making character moves, drawing animation, designing UI, etc, there are a lot of boring parts. In fact, a game program is composed of many different scripts. Figuring out how every script works individually or how they work together sometimes is a tedious job. Another problem is that it spends me so much time. It costs me two days on merely a character animation, not to mention game mechanism and debugging. After two months of programming, I only got a semi-finished games without time to finish it since I need to get back to school.

This semester, I have a class called game programming. It is a class held by the Department of CS teaching how to use Unity and some details knowledge that I never think of before. At the end of the semester, we need to make our own games with our teammates and show them to the professors. The game we made is called “Get Out The City”. It is mainly about a robot wakes up with consciousness in an abandoned city, and tries to figure out how to get out and what is hidden in this city. I am responsible for player control scripts, while other team members make different scenes and monsters.

Fortunately, this time, we have more people and more time. Though it’s still not finished yet, it has potential to be a fun and interesting game. Here is the demo video of our games. Hope you enjoy it.