Posted September 04, 2021 by esilgY
The next major step for our prototype was designing the slime! What even is a snail racing party game without piles of grimy shiny slime?
We also looked at creating 2D sprites which came with its own sets of issues, and on paper we thought it might be less intensive than creating 3D objects, in the process of trialing 2D sprites we ran into a issue where they weren't registering 3D raycasts, so we needed to convert them all to 2D rays and vectors. We also ran into orientation issues, as well clipping issues. In the end we decided to stick with the 3D version we already had running.
In the future we will look to how we can improve performance and keep the game running smooth as well as visual improvements to make our slime feel more slimy!