Traffic Panic!

"Traffic Panic!" is one of my college final projects for a Unity game development course. It's based off the idea of a LittleBigPlanet level of the same name, which was based off an old mobile game by...you guessed it, the same name.

The game is simple. You're given a birds' eye view of a traffic intersection of two one-way roads. Cars are driving down these roads and it's your job to control t he intersection's traffic light so that nobody crashes. Don't cause a pileup!

Score is given for every car that safely travels north-bound through the intersection. You can only control the light for thenorth-bound road. The game ends as soon as any car crashes, so be careful!

Controls

If you have a keyboard, and you know how to press the Spacebar, then you know the controls. Pressing Space toggles the traffic light between red and green.

Build instructions

• You'll need Unity Hub, a Unity license (personal is fine), and Unity 2020.3.17f1. I trust that you know how to install that.
• Clone the repository with Git, or download it as a ZIP and extract it somewhere.
• Open the project in Unity.
• If you aren't already in the Bootstrap scene, please open that scene. It's in /Scenes/Bootstrap.
• You can play the game in-editor, or you can choose to build it as standalone. I haven't set up build indexes yet though.

I want to play a standalone build

First of all, why. There are so many better games, even written by me, that you could be trying to compile yourself. I don't plan to actually release this so it's really not set up to be properly built.

WITH THAT IN MIND, I can't control what you do - but I can tell you how to do it yourself.

• Make sure that you set up build indexes for both the Bootstrap and TheIntersection scenes. Bootstrap MUST be Index 0, likewise, TheIntersection MUST be Index 1. See SceneNames.cs for why.
• You may run into compile errors because of editor-only code being used. If you do, then I apologize, I haven't gone through and stripped anything I may have added by accident using code-completion.

Missing stuff/future plans

1. Art - I originally agreed to have DeRose, the lead modeller of Restitched, help out with car models and other art assets that I can't do on my own. But we Restitched folk are really busy with...Restitched, and so I didn't want to bog the team down on one of my personal projects. That being said, maybe I may come back in the future and art-pass this game. For now though, it's all just a bunch of cubes and default Unity UI.
2. Leaderboards - There's a high-score feature in the game, but it gets wiped when you close the game. Eventually I'd like to set up a local leaderboard system, similar to old arcade games.
3. Pedestrian Carnage! - I wanted to add a feature where pedestrians would cross the street occasionally. Hitting them would cause a negative point penalty.
4. Police - In the LBP level this is based off of, cars would occasionally stop in mid-traffic. A police car would then spawn in to chase the rogue car away. But this is too complex of a system for me to write for a college project, so that's missing.
5. Multiple levels - There's only one level in the game, but it wouldn't be too hard to build out new levels in the future. Maybe even ones with multiple intersections?
6. Different vehicles - There's a car pool system in the game - for randomly spawning different vehicles with different attributes. But there's only one "cubic-mobile" car in the game. Eventually I'd like to add new vehicle types.

Is this affiliated with Trixel Creative?

ABSOLUTELY not. Like I said above, this is a college project. That being said, the LBP level that this game is based off of, was made by Trixel. And I am a Restitched project lead. So you're close...but...not quite! :)