Year 3, Study Block 1

In GAM301, I created a Bar Training Prototype in Unity using Fungus and Piskel to create a gamified version of standard bar training. This focused on the two areas of training bartenders make mistakes on the most when working, being Challenge 25 and Over serving customers that are intoxicated, with the training some companies use being of poor quality and does not test the staff’s ability to determine if someone is underage or too intoxicated. This was centred around the domain of ‘Games for commercial and business applications’ given it was a training game.

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To make this game, I once again used Fungus for dialogue given its useful functions and easy to grasp flowchart system for dialogue. The player would start of with being told a little bit about what they needed know and would the make them move to a customer, triggering a collider and allowing the player to serve them, which would pick a random integer from a list and put them in a scene where the customer could be drunk, underage and without ID or perfectly fine, having to use visual clues and clues in their speech on if the customer is allowed to be served. After 3 patrons served, the game would end and the player would be rated on how well they did, with any mistakes being told and the consequences being explained from fines to loss of license for the business. 
 

I also used the free pixel art creator Piskel for the patron’s faces and the scene to help reduce the need for licenses and allowed me to create the visual clues on if someone was drunk or underage or fine. I also used the royalty-free website Pixabay for the audio, picking a jazz song for the background music to give some immersive experience when playing the prototype.

 

I had also created, per the brief’s instructions, a 1700 word reflection with the connection to the domain and showcasing the research that was put in, I enjoyed the prototype’s creation however I do struggle with writing in journals and reflections which is where I struggled the most with this module, though if I was to do this again, I would have also tried to implement other training areas such as the asking for Angela scheme.