As an introduction to game design and Unity, this module consisted mainly of a series of tutorials and tasks to familiarise us with general game development and production. The tutorials covered the basics of Unity to the point where we could be let free and work on something of our own. As part of the submission - and as a way of applying the knowledge we learned - we were given the open task to design an island of our choice in Unity. This required with us to come up with a concept, produce some initial designs and plans before then implementing as much as we could into our Unity project.

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My approach to this task was to try and produce something a bit different than a conventional grassy island. I (very optimistically) decided to try and create an island that was set on another planet with the feeling of abandonment being key to the overall world. This was ultimately fun but challenging and despite the final submission not turning out exactly the way I wanted, there was many lessons learned from this project. Namely, this was insightful into how difficult it can be to create entire worlds and how time consuming it can be to gather and produce all the required assets and systems. Oh, and scope... it ALWAYS comes back to scope!