Journal Entry 5

Date: 28.5.2024

Activity:

• Downloaded the Breakout project and made it juicier. The following improvements were added:
  • Initial colors
  • Camera shake
  • Brick setup - colors based on row, bounce movement with a random delay
  • Juicy ball hit - ball gets bigger and with random color transition
  • Juicy brick hit - constant rotation and movement based on ball's velocity
  • Stretcy paddle
  • Paddle face - only smile being tweened when hit, eye rotation is not working properly and the rest is not implemented
  • Game fade in/out
  • Ball trail - set color and width over time
  • Puff of smoke - simple world particle when ball hits anything
  • Confetti - simple particle when ball hits the paddle
  • Sounds
  • Slow motion

Notes:

Today, I have received an email about a missing homework for which I wasn't able to find the assignment. After asking a teacher, the assignment was posted on the website. So I checked it, downloaded it and applied as many juicy improvements as I could. Then the itch.io website was down, so I had to wait for the next day to post it.

Invested hours:

• Finding out what I was supposed to do: 30 minutes
• Downloading and preparing project: 30 minutes
• Setting up initial colors: 10 minutes
• Camera shake: 10 minutes
• Brick setup: 10 minutes
• Juicy ball hit: 10 minutes
• Juicy brick hit: 15 minutes
• Stretcy paddle: 10 minutes
• Paddle face: 30 minutes
• Game fade in/out: 10 minutes
• Ball trail: 10 minutes
• Puff of smoke: 15 minutes
• Confetti: 15 minutes
• Sounds: 10 minutes
• Slow motion: 10 minutes

Outcome:

Juicy version of the Breakout game attached to this post.