What's next

Honestly, I thought after I finished the game and uploaded it that I'd be filled with profound emptiness like I am with most projects, but I wasn't. Instead, I immediately thought of ways I could go beyond the Skillshare course and upgrade the game to stretch my ability to learn and do.

So here's what's coming:

• ✅I'm fixing the box colliders on the clouds, thanks to a recommendation from a friend. They're all prefabs, so this will be a cinch.
• ✅I definitely need to add directions at the start of the game to tell people how to move/play.
• ✅Notice how once you play you're trapped? While that would make for a delightful horror LitRPG, it's not so great for a game. I need to figure out how to add an escape/exit button.
• It'd be pretty cool to add restart and pause buttons too.
• ✅Check out to see if/how I can export the game in HTML through Unity, based on a friend's suggestion, so it can be played in the browser.
• ✅I also need to see why it's only showing Windows in the build settings (and why I can't configure it to be played on Apple or Linux, even though it shows those options in Unity).
• I'd like to figure out how to let players regenerate their health by catching hearts, the same way they can catch gems. This will be trickier since I'm not sure if this would be a similar script as the inventory one for the gems or something else. But since it is such a tricky game, for longer playability, I'd like to add this mechanic.
• And I'd like to see if I can allow players to "shield" against enemies, kind of like an invincibility mechanic -- either constant for a short burst, like 5 or 10 seconds, after catching a pop-up shield sprite or a shield you can use but only for 5-10 seconds with a regeneration time after. Or both, just to see if I can figure them out.
• And maybe an attack mechanic so you can blow up spikes and robots 😈

I'd love to get feedback on the game and welcome other suggestions to try out! I'm very new to this side of game development and this is my first game, so I'm using this finished product to build on and learn new things.