Gameplay programming is currently my favorite part of game development. I focused a lot on maintaining high code quality in terms of readability and scalability, to minimize the technical debt when expanding the project even further later on. To achieve this, I wrote managers for handling game logics in different categories:

Game Master

• Higher priority in script execution order
• Update the current game state
  
• Communicate with other managers and scripts to call functions according to game state
• Holds commonly-used variables (e.g. player object, player position) for other scripts to access
• Receives function calls from other scripts (e.g. start an activity)

Input Manager

• Keeps tracking of the current input type (Mouse Keyboard / Gamepad)
• Centralize the key and button mapping for player actions
• Modify raw input values to become ready to use
• Offers public functions for scripts to use if they need to detect player inputs
  

Sound Manager

• Gathers all needed sound effects into a list for accessing them
• Offers public functions for scripts to use if they need to play a sound

UI Manager

• Gathers all needed UI elements for accessing them
• Update the display of UI elements and values of UI texts
• Update button prompts according to input type
• Receives function calls from other scripts (e.g. fade screen to black)

Activity Script

• Each activity has an activity script that handles the logics within that activity.
• Keeps track of the current progress of the activity
• Control activity objects and receives event signals from them

For simple objects such as the checkpoint arrow and flag, I use Blender to model them and export them to FBX using Blender To Unity FBX Exporter.

The shader graph I modified from this YouTube tutorial for making the transparent gradient effect for the checkpoint.

I make animations for UI elements within Unity Editor and use Animator to access them, Animator.Play() in script to play them.

Video link: YouTube / Google Drive

This video showcases the project view, the modifiable checkpoint system, and various manager scripts.