ACM Studio at UCLA Advanced Track Jam 2022

Programming Tasks

These are the "required" coding tasks that the skeleton code will walk you through! These are all located within Assets/Scripts near comments that being with "TODO"

Controls.inputactions

• Create a Jump action

PlatformerCharacter2D.cs

• Set the start of a Jump Action to call Jump()
• Set the cancelation of a Jump Action to call JumpCancel()
• To detect if the player should slide down a wall, create a circlecast at the wallcheck position that hits anything designated as ground, then set the appropriate booleans
• If the player is gliding, constrain downward velocity and lower gravity
• When jumping off a wall, add horizontal force (maxSpeed * wallJumpXForce)
• Detect when the player is attempting to glide (pressing Jump button in midair)
• Prevent gliding upwards

Respawn.cs

• Detect if the collision's tag is "Player"
• Start the WaitForDeath Coroutine, which waits for 1 second before reloading the level
  • Wait one second (try looking at the Unity docs for Coroutines)
  • Load the same scene (restart the level)

LevelGoal.cs

• Detect if the collider's tag is "Player"
• Start the coroutine that loads the next level
  • Set the "currentLevel" PlayerPref to nextLevelNumber (It HAS to be named "currentLevel" for LevelSelect to recognize it)
  • If the next level hasn't been reached before (ie. the "latestLevel" PlayerPref < nextLevelNumber), update the latestLevel int

MovingPlatform.cs

• Declare a variable that stores the previous parent of the player
• Detect if the collison's tag is "Player"
• Save the collision's current parent to a variable, then set its parent to the script's transform
• When a collision ends, detect if the collison's tag is "Player" and set its parent to the previous parent

Level Design Tasks

There are three template levels that you can mess with as much as you want!

• Duplicate, move, scale, edit the SpriteShapes, etc. of the Terrain to create level layouts
• Duplicate and reposition spikes to give the player obstacles to avoid
• Edit the collider of the death zone (and perhaps create new death zones) so that the player never falls infinitely!
• Add moving platforms:
  • Make a terrain object (or some other platform you create with a collider)
  • Create an animation for it to move repeatedly (make sure that the animation loops or yo-yos)
  • Add the MovingPlatform script as a Component in the Inspector window

Optional Tasks!

These are some ideas that you can implement to expand your game!

• Create platforms that fall after an adjustable amount of time (bonus points if you can do it without animations!)
• Add a new control for Skreech, such as dashing, stomping, etc.
• Create an equivalent for Sonic springs