Player Health

Each of the attacking bots cause player damage if they can collide with the player. I really had no indication of this or the damage being inflicted. In most games it is usually a visual and audio appearance of bloodshot eyes and a strong heartbeat. In one of the other topics I mentioned that the player object came with a screen fade which would fire when the game started, which to me worked well with the premise of waking up in the morning in your home office but I disabled it. This was mostly due to the fact that during development it was a few seconds of wait time testing the game. Health Damage I knew right away that this is where I wanted to start. Adding an on/off bool, a timer and fade strobe interval easily solved this. If a player's health gets below X level it will activate. This causes a red screen strobe overlay and heartbeat. If health gets below Y level it increases. Hit Z level and the player zombifies, player movement is augmented or the player dies altogether. I quickly realized that this fade was also being initiated if you by chance passed through a wall to indicate you were out of bounds. I had to add a check to see if the damage was truly coming from an attacker or just your run of the mill alert. I did this by checking the collision object tag. Well actually, I am still determining how I want to handle Z level, but this certainly worked for what I wanted for now.