A preliminary study to create a highly motivating multiplayer game designed within the context of stroke rehabilitation
Table of Contents
This project has been made open source. Therefore feel free to fork this repository and continue to build, remix or reimagine the project!
- Unity Version 2022.3.26.1f (you may upgrade if you want, although upgrading may introduce errors)
- Have a pair of etee controllers and dongle (controllers used to play the game)
- Blender (any version)
- Fmod studio Version 2.03.06 (if you want to edit the sounds in the game)
How to install the project
First copy the url of the repo from github
Next click clone repository in github desktop
Enter paste the copied url into the top field and select a local folder for the repo
Once cloned open unity and select add project from disk
Navigate to LocalFolder/Artefact/FYP Artefact/
It should look like this
Then select add project
now you should see the project in your list of projects in unity hub.
You can now open the project, (will take a little longer to open on the first time as unity is generating files and installing packages)
This space will cover the repo and projects file structures
after reading this section you should have a better understanding on what scripts are used for what and how you can go about either running the project for yourself or extending the project with your own functionality
for more information please refer to the implementation section of the Dissertation
- 📁Artefact
- 📁FYP Artefact – All project files for the game. See the Project File Structure section.
- 📁Data Analysis – Raw data gathered from testers, plus Python-generated charts:
- 📁AverageChartsExport – Average responses
- 📁exported_charts – Distribution of responses
- 📁PilotPlots – Average responses from the pilot test
- 📁plots – Same as AverageChartsExport
- 📁Ethic Forms – Forms given to testers during testing
- 📁Project Writing – Contains dissertation (Word + PDF)
- 📁Poster – Academic poster (PowerPoint + PDF)
- 📁FYP Artefact – Main Unity project files for the game:
- 📁.idea – IDE-specific config files (from JetBrains Rider)
- 📁Assets – Core Unity project assets:
- 📁Animations - animations used by the player character
- 📁AnimatorControllers - player animation controller
- 📁CameraBlends - used to define timing blends between different virtual cameras present in the game (located in the player prefab)
- 📁Editor - editor specific things
- 📁GameModeHolder - game mode holder ui toolkit custom inspector
- 📁Gameplay Pipeline - gameplay pipeline custom inspector
- 📁Screenshot - the scriptable object instance in here can be used to take screenshots
- 📁eteeAPI – Etee api implementation (only need to go in here if you plan to edit the api)
- 📁Fonts - fonts used in the game
- 📁Lighting Settings - auto generated by unity
- 📁Materials - materials of the models used in the game
- 📁Models - the various models used in the game
- 📁Packages - thhe various packages used in the game
- 📁Paro222 - asset from unity asset store
- 📁Underwater Effects - underwater post process effect implementation
- 📁Plugins - the plugins dowloaded into the projects assets
- 📁FMOD
- 📁UniTask
- 📁Prefabs
- 📁Fish
- 📁Hats
- 📁Player
- 📁Ripple
- 📁Ui
- 📁RenderTextures
- 📁Resources - importantly contains the various game modes
- 📁GameModes
- 📁UiToolkit
- 📁Scenes
- 📁ScriptableObjects - project uses SOAP architecture, this folder contains scriptable object instances such as HatDatabase, PlayerScores and SceneChanger
- 📁GestureProfiles - the different gesture profiles supported by the game. currently hand open, hand closed and rock on
- 📁Scripts - the various scripts of the game
- 📁Fish - fish related scripts
- 📁GameMode - game modes
- 📁GameplayPipeline - IMPORTANT this is where most of the gameplay logic lies. inside folders are used to encapsulate the functionality of each of the gameplay stages
- 📁CastRod
- 📁CollectFish
- 📁HookFish
- 📁RaiseArm
- 📁ReelInFish
- 📁TrackRipple
- 📁LerpSystem - library for lerping over time which i made
- 📁Managers
- 📁PlayerHatCustomization
- 📁PlayerScoring
- 📁PlayerSpawning
- 📁Ripple System
- 📁Ripple
- 📁RippleSpawning
- 📁UI
- 📁End Screen Single Player
- 📁EndScreenMultiplayer
- 📁HatSelection
- 📁MainGame
- 📁MainMenu
- 📁Utility
- 📁Settings
- 📁Shaders
- 📁Signals
- Sprites
- 📁Hands
- 📁HatThumbnails
- 📁KenneyUiAssetPack
- 📁Ui
- 📁MainMenu
- 📁Mind our dust
- 📁StreamingAssets
- 📁TextMesh Pro
- 📁Textures
- 📁FishingRod
- 📁Bait
- 📁Rod
- 📁Village
- 📁FishingRod
- 📁Timeliens
- 📁HatSelect
- 📁MainGame
- 📁MainMenu
- 📁UI
- 📁HatSelection
- 📁Main Game
- 📁MainMenu
- 📁Multiplayer
- 📁SinglePlayerGameOver
- 📁UI Toolkit
- 📁UnityThemes
- 📁FMODPROJ – FMOD project is in here open the project file in this folder with fmod to edit the project
- 📁Packages
- 📁ProjectSettings
- 📁UIElementsSchema
This section is dedicated the individual(s) responsible for the development of the contents of the repo
This section is dedicated to the individual(s) responsible for the sucessful submission of the project to the unity for humanity 2025 grant
James Bland - @LinkedIn - JamesRichardBland@gmail.com
Project Link: https://github.com/your_username/repo_name
Firstly, I would like to thank my project supervisor Xi Guo for her continued support and investment in myself and the project. Due to your support a project has been created which I am exceptionally proud of. Secondly, I would like to thank my second supervisor Dr Liucheng Guo it has been a pleasure working with you and TG0. Additionally, thank you to the Real FLC community for providing the assets to be used in the project and thank you to the members of the unity for humanity grant team, it is truly surreal to see the project recognised by Unity. Thank you to all my family and friends who have provided their constant love and support and thank you to all the testers who have tested the project.
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