Project 4 - Scripting

Project 4 has been a mish mash of little projects I have been working on the side throughout studio. Now with the holidays coming up I have had the time to complete the Technical Specification Document for my team (The Sweet Boys) game Sous Me! After i started the tech spec i realised there were some aspects i didn’t fully understand and decided to try and script some of the aspects we will need.

I started simple by making a timer in C# that we could implement on our orders so players had a visual representation of how much time they had left before the order expired, we will have to tweak the script as i currently have it set to show 2 decimal places of seconds but as there will be multiple orders at once on screen it may cause clutter. If that is the case i have written a comment in the script which lets my team know to change the “f2” in the seconds string to f0. The other aspect of this script is that when the allotted time for that order is up i have set the colour of the timers text to turn red making a visual representation that they are running late on that order.

The next script wasn’t one i wrote myself but one the team will be utilising straight from unity's documentation. Their Voice recognition script runs a Dictation Recogniser which listens to the words players dictate into the microphone, the recogniser runs through the Dictation Hypothesis which is used to filter out any unwanted words spoken by the players. When running this in unity and using Debug.Logs you can see that it listens to any word you say but if it's a cuss it will block out the letters with ***.

Next the script checks whether the word was successfully heard and presented through the Dictation Complete and if all went fine it will output the text spoken and if not run the Dictation Error result. This is a fantastic framework to start from in our voice recognition game and will need further research into other voice functions such as Unity's Phrase Recognition system. This script currently only has basic ability and to make it work specifically for our game it will require some tweaking, we will need to make sure that when a dictation has successfully been accepted and shown that a visual representation of its correct pronunciation is shown to a player and similarly if they pronounce any words wrong, these will also need to be recorded so that our star rating system knows how many stars to give the players and whether to let them progress or not depending on how many words were pronounced correctly.