Inspiration
Our group is an avid fan of the various delicacies that the UC Davis Dining commons provide. The wide variety of choice and superb excellency in taste and quality is truly belonging to a campus with the top 100 dining commons in America.
What it does
Our game seeks to create a roguelike adventure for users to battle various mobs and explore various parts of the Segundo and Latitude Dining Commons. We hope that the implementation of a cross dining common menu may make it easier for students to access the unique entrees for specific days of the week and compare their favorites. We hope that providing this information for students may allow students to pick their favorite foods more often and reduce possible food waste.
How we built it
We built this project using the Unity Engine Version 2021.3.25f1, C# scripts, and photoshop.
Challenges we ran into
Time constraints were a major issue when it comes to coding and developing in Unity due to the length of time taken to ensuring quality performance and smooth gameplay. Similarly, we were limited on the number of assets we had available and had to be resourceful in displaying more with less. Lastly, we are new to Unity and its tools so we might not have been able to fully utilize its potential.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We have a very detailed and player friendly map for users to explore and skirmish with the various enemy types. Similarly, our spawner system and menu systems have smooth processing and loading. Our sprites are well defined and animated. We also hope that improvements to the menu may make it viable alternative for students to check the menus ahead of time.
What we learned
Unity is a difficult engine that takes a lot of time to learn and master. There is a lot of work to be done when it comes to animating sprites and getting a backend running for the game.
What's next for Culinary Clash
We hope to port this game to a mobile format where it would be most convenient to play handheld. We hope that this app may also provide data for the UC Davis Housing and Dining Services to help provide students with a more preferred selection based of popular preference and possibly reduce food waste by having unpopular dishes less often. We also hope to automate the process in uploading the upcoming menus, since many are repeats in possible entree items, there are few scripts needed to make it consistently updatable.
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