I started working on this game idea of mine some time ago, I don't have a title yet so let's just call it Some Cactus Game for now.

Main concept is that you will drive around in the desert while cactuses are chasing you and trying to destroy your car. You will be able to buy new cars and upgrade them with heavier duty bumpers, shields, guns and things like that.

I have some of the basic mechanics done, like cactuses beating you up:

You can run over them to show who's boss:

The car has a damage system, individual parts will break if they receive enough damage:

Currently I'm working on more cactus models, but for now that's all :>

New cactus is setup and running, he is a chunkier boi:

I've been also working on a turret system, it is working nicely finally. It can detect targets within a certain area, will shoot at target when it is aimed at, can only rotate between predefined ranges and will return to an idle position when there are no targets in range:

Some updates to keep track of progress:

• New car is inbound

• Fixed some bugs with the turret system, everything works as intended now
• Started the work on the spawning and enemy wave system, on a basic level it is working, good enough for testing

I've been working on the gameplay area, there is still a lot of work to do but I have the layout finished:

I want to include features and landmarks any proper desert should have, like a secret military base, an abandoned junkyard, a crashed UFO site, just to name a few.

I have the map setup in Unity, I managed to build a material with shadergraph to procedurally mask the wavy sand texture, it's not really visible on the gifs but they are there. Also played around with some post processing, slowly starts to feel like a real game :>

https://giphy.com/embed/GTmvj6AkAwh1kce4c8

https://giphy.com/embed/nzMeF7AGcnsVfpVhC2