unity-junior-programmer-course-projects

Tools

• Unity 2021.3.14f1

Unit 1

Unit Objective

• Program a car moving side-to-side on a floating road, trying to avoid (or hit) obstacles in the way.

Challenge 1

Challenge Objective

• The plane moves forward at a constant rate
• The up/down arrows tilt the nose of the plane up and down
• The camera follows along beside the plane as it flies

Unit 2

Unit Objective

• Allow the player to move forward and backwards, left and right within a certain range.
• Have animals that spawn from the top and also from the left and right side of the screen.
• At the start of the game, the player’s Lives = 3 and Score = 0. If the player feeds an animal, increase and display the Score. If the player is hit by a animal (spawn from the left or right side), decrease and display the Lives. When the number of Lives reaches 0, log “Game Over” in the console.
• Display a “hunger bar” on top of each of the animals. Then, each time you feed one of them, the hunger bar fills up a little. Each animal should require different amounts of food to successfully “feed” them

Challenge 2

Challenge Objective

• Make the balls spawn from the top of the screen
• Make the player spawn dogs
• The balls should only be destroyed when coming into direct contact with a dog
• Balls should be destroyed when they leave the bottom of the screen and dogs should be destroyed when they leave the left side of the screen
• Ball 1, 2, and 3 should be spawned randomly
• Make the spawn interval a random value between 3 seconds and 5 seconds

Unit 3

Unit Objective

• Repeat background
• Randomize obstacles
• Make player jump
• Adjust the jump animation
• Double jump
• Set up a falling animation
• Super speed ability and score
• Game start animation
• Play the particle on collision, add a dirt splatter particle
• Add music. Play Audio Clips on jump and crash

Challenge 3

Challenge Objective

• The balloon should float up as the player presses spacebar
• The background should move at start, then stop when the game is over
• Make bombs or money objects spawn every few seconds
• Make the fireworks display at the balloon’s position
• Make the background repeat seamlessly
• Prevent the player from floating their balloon too high
• Make the balloon appear to bounce off of the ground, preventing it from leaving the bottom of the screen. There should be a sound effect when this happens!

Unit 4

Unit Objective

• Create enemies
• Add a new more difficult type of enemy and randomly select which is spawned
• Create a powerup that gives the player a temporary strength boost
• Create a powerup that gives the player the ability to launch projectiles at enemies to knock them off
• Create a powerup that allows the player to hop up into the air and smash down onto the ground, sending any enemies nearby flying away from the player
• After a certain number of waves, program a “boss battle”, where the boss has some completely new abilities. It occasionally generates little minions

Challenge 4

Challenge Objective

• When you hit an enemy, it should send it away from the player
• A new wave should spawn when all enemy balls have been removed
• The powerup should only last for a certain duration, then disappear
• One enemy should be spawned in wave 1, two in wave 2, three in wave 3, etc
• The enemy balls should go towards the “Player Goal” object
• The player should get a speed boost whenever the player presses spacebar - and a particle effect should appear when they use it
• The enemies speed should increase in speed by a small amount with every new wave

Unit 5

Unit Objective

• Create good and bad targets
• Toss objects randomly in the air
• Destroy target with click and sensor
• Add score when targets are destroyed
• Add a Particle explosion
• Add difficulty buttons
• Create a "Lives" UI element that counts down by 1 when an object leaves the bottom of the screen and triggers Game Over when Lives reaches 0
• Add background music and a UI Slider element to adjust the volume
• During gameplay, allow the user to press a key to toggle between pausing and resuming the game, where a pause screen comes up while the game is paused
• Program click-and-swipe functionality, generating a trail where the mouse has been dragged

Challenge 5

Challenge Objective

• Center the text on the buttons horizontally and vertically
• The food should only be destroyed when the player clicks on it, not when the mouse touches it
• It should always say, “Score: __“ with the value displayed after “Score:”
• Make the Restart button appear on the game over screen
• Make the difficulty buttons change the difficulty
• Add a “Time: __” display that counts down from 60 in whole numbers (i.e. 59, 58, 57, etc) and triggers the game over sequence when it reaches 0

Error Project

Project Objective

• Fix errors

Counter Project

Project Objective

• Add anything you need to complete the prototype

Data Persistence Project

Project Objective

• Implement data persistence between sessions