Journal Entry 1

I have worked with unity before but never done a platformer before and I found the 2D game kit tutorial very fun and its use reasonably intuitive. I just built a level as I followed through the tutorial, just testing random aspects of the game kit, such as the moving platform, transporter and adding enemies. The end result of my level is not great but I certainly learnt a lot more on how to use this to make better levels in the future. I never had any struggles with the game kit, besides the sprite for the teleporter  not working, but I still spent a lot of time (approximately 5 hours) on this practical just exploring the Game Kit and dealing with Unity being slow on my laptop. One other problem I had is that the representation of the characters health (The 5 hearts in the top left) was never changed when she was damaged, and I could not figure out how to fix this. Regardless of the couple of struggles, it was an enjoyable experience developing this weird looking platformer level.