Gameplay

It is time to complete this project, merging together what we did so far and adding the gameplay scripts.

The game mechanic of the game expected:

  • A timer that goes down each second
  • An energy that is used by the player when accelerating the ship and a ship that can accelerate only if it has enough energy
  • A score that increases each time an item is collected
  • A game over that is shown when the player ends its time
  • The possibility to restart the game as many times as the player desires
  • Collectables that spawn periodically

For GameOver, we can create a third UI window that shows the score and the button of the main menu; however, let's keep it simple. We can connect a second event called GameOver on an HUD class BeginPlay event. This will be called ...

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