3D Game Programming for Kids, 2nd Edition

When you’re done with this chapter, you will

• Be able to group simple shapes
• Build your own game avatar
• Add simple animations to the avatar

Chapter 3Project: Making an Avatar

Developing games means lots of parts—the game area, the players in the game, things that get in the way of players, and much, much more. In this project chapter, we’ll create a player that we might use in a game—an avatar. It will end up looking something like this:

An avatar is who you are within the game world. It shows where you are in the game and what you’re doing. Since it’s supposed to represent you and me, it should have a good feel to it. We want something ...