Minigame Monday: Selection Boxes
Selection Boxes: The concept: Happy new year! For my first minigame of 2023, I wanted to do another game in Unity, and practice with some of the areas I wanted to learn more about. The main thing I wanted to do was play around with converting between screen and game co-ordinates, so this turned out to be another project where I started working on the game before I actually knew what the gameplay would be! After getting the rough behaviour in, I quickly realised I wanted to make a level based puzzle game using it. The challenge: My rough idea was that I wanted the player to be able to draw a box on screen, select objects, and move them around the screen. Breaking this down into steps, the first thing I needed to do was draw the box. To do this, I recorded the point at which the player first clicked, and then converted this point and where the mouse currently was into a box. I then converted these co-ordinates into world space, making sure to provide a z co-ordinate away from the c...