Recovery VR: Topple Bottle

During my vocational placement at Recovery VR, one of the mini-games I worked on for the application was Topple Bottle. Topple Bottle is a throwing mini game, where you are surrounded by various objects in varying shapes and sizes that have been placed throughout a marketplace environment. Your goal as the player is to use the apples in your crate to knock down as many objects as possible to earn points!

For this mini-game, I was required to make a timer, player score, reset method and fill the environment with art assets, making use of a 360-degree radius around the player. The player score is based on whether a knock-able object has been hit by one of the players apples before it fell and collided with another surface (i.e. the ground, table etc.). If the object has in fact collided with an apple and a surface, the player earns a point. The player can also acquire points if the knocked object collides with objects around it and causes them to fall as well.

The player can reset the objects at any time by interacting with UI in the scene and spawn more apples in their crate using buttons on their controller. Resetting the scene will also reset the players score and timer. Players can also experiment with different throwing apple sizes and develop their own style when playing. In Topple Bottle there are three difficulty levels taken into consideration, these being Easy, Medium and Hard, each level affects the mass of the objects within the scene. When the player enters Topple Bottle, the timer begins to count upwards in seconds from zero. The player themselves is not required to complete any tasks within time limits but can instead use the timer to set personal goals and track their progress when playing.

Resources used when developing Topple Bottle:

https://www.bdts.com.au/tips-and-resources/unity-create-a-timer-clock-minutes-seconds-using-time-timesincelevelload-c.html