Week 8 Update

Getting a Second Wind

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We turned in our Beta demo with great success. Yay! Our player spawns in the maze correctly. The camera is at the right height (for some odd reason we struggled with our camera being really short for a while). Our collider is the right size for our player. We collide with walls correctly and don't fall through the floor. We can look correctly with the mouse and move with the keys. Looking with the mouse no longer causes errors with our movement (it seemed the camera was moving but the rotation of the player object was not adjusting with it). We did not include the main menu in the demo, but it links to the game correctly. Our next step is to incorporate the VR elements, which Ryan will be in charge of. Zijian will be working on spawning the monsters next and making them move through the maze on their own. I will be working on spawning the coins in the maze and connecting the separate panels in the main menu to one another and editing their written content. We are so close, but we still have so much more work to do. Here's hoping we keep this momentum going!

Until Next Time,
Avery

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