Game Development Project

Making the character

The first thing that needed to be done was to make the character that the players would control.

I wanted a simple design for the character to make things easier for myself.

The design ended up being what is in the image below.

It's a very simple cube design with some glasses to show where forward is on the player character.

The player moves in a very simple way using the traditional WASD keys on the keyboard and where the player is looking is controlled by the mouse.

Getting the movement to work was a challenge since I had never programmed camera movement for a 3rd person game before so there were some differences compared to making camera movement for a 1st person game.

Some of those challenges were the fact that the player needed to be facing in the proper direction as well as not being able to look through the floor whenever the player decided to look up or down.