A few months ago I got the opportunity to make a game to help students practice calculating the APGAR score for newborn babies. The game looks very basic but it functions well. I think the game got pushed to live with a few issues but it functions relatively well, and most of the issues won’t pop up unless the settings for the game get changed. There was one error that gave me a bit of a laugh. The system in charge of spawning in babies used an exponential curve to dictate the frequency of baby spawns, and if the player was able to get 0 babies on the screen, the spawn time between the babies became close to 0. This caused all the rooms to get filled up at once in under a second. It looked pretty funny.
The game has some interesting gameplay aspects, but the overall look and feel of the game is a bit clunky. The art style is incredibly basic, which can be compensated for with good gameplay elements, but this game lacks the polishing of those elements. The clunky movement of the nurses and the occasional oddities do a good job at making this game feel a bit worse.
The negatives aside, the game does have some positive aspects. I feel like this is probably one of the most balanced games I’ve made so far. It feels challenging but if you understand the information the game tests you on, it becomes a fun challenge. Outside of the game, I learnt quite a bit about integrating a Unity game into a SCORM package and how they interact within Iframes. It also gave me an opportunity to think about my design processes and reflect on what points I should be giving more consideration at each step. Early on I failed to put a lot of thought into how I wanted the systems to interact with each other, so by the time I was done, the code felt a bit like spaghetti. Overall, this game was more of a learning process, but is still turned out alright.
5/10
The game is embedded below, but it takes a while to load. I’m not an expert in Unity WebGL builds so I don’t know how to fix this. The game is loading but It’s just going to take a while. Go make a coffee or something.
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