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Let's go with the design for our game.

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Here's a gameplay overview screen.

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I always recommend starting off with some visuals.

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It helps a lot.

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We need our player.

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He's going to be flying along doing back flips and front flips.

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We need a finishing line so we can say, You've reached the end of this particular level.

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We need a nice way to be making smooth track with jumps.

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So we're going to use sprite shapes, as I mentioned in the previous video, which is going to be a

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really nice way of using unity to its full extent.

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We're going to have some particle effects and the trickiness is going to be to make sure the particle

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effects are only playing from our snowboarder when you're on the ground.

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So we're going to have some some dust particles kind of flying up behind our character.

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Now, let's talk about the game mechanics we need, and it's a good habit to get into just to list these

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out.

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So, you know, what are you doing first?

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What are you doing second?

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What are the mechanics you're working on when you're creating your code?

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So we need to move along the track.

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We need to have our player actually be able to move along, rotate forwards and rotate backwards.

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That's a feature we need to implement with some code.

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And I'd also like the ability to speed up.

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We don't have to have this, but I think it just adds a little bit of variety to our game, some particle

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effects that play when we're touching the ground.

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As I mentioned a moment ago, you need a finishing line that restarts the level and some crash detection.

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So if we smack our head into the ground, then it restarts to the level.

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And just so to be very clear on what game we're making, we want to play our experience that is smooth

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and relaxing.

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That's what I'm going for.

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Yours could be fast and out of control or dramatic, or you might want someone to feel like a 1980s

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action stuntman or whatever it might be.

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But you always want to know your player experience so you can build all your features towards that.

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The core mechanic is, well, just don't crash.

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You can see my image here.

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He's upside down.

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He smacked his head and he got some little red particles coming out and our core game loop is just simply

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to reach the end.

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So it's a very simple game, very simple implementation, but we'll learn a lot about unity along the

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way.

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Quick challenge for you now.

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Name your player character.

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I'll be naming mine Barry.

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I think that's an interesting name for my character and let us know your choice of name in the discussion.

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Just let us know.

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Have a little think about it.

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What's your intuition?

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Tell you about who your character is going to be that starring in your snowboarder game?

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So is your challenge jump into the discussions and let us know that.

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And after you've done that, I'll see you in the next lecture.