'Tis volley

What kind of game are we going to make? Well, let's pretend that you are totally pumped up about volleyball (work with me here). All you can think about night and day is volleyball. You dream about it at bedtime. You play it every chance you get. So, when it comes to making your first game in Unity, there's no question: you have to make a volleyball game.

Let's back away from that idea a little and, using what we learned in Chapter 2, Let's Start with the Sky, evaluate the difficulty level of a volleyball game. Volleyball features two teams of six players on either side of a net. A server hits a ball with his hands over the net, and the teams compete to keep the ball in the air, hitting it back and forth over the net. The rally ends when:

The first team to score 25 points wins the set. A match is best-of-five. Then there are a number of rules that govern how often and in what way a player may hit the ball (hint: no grabsies).

Hopefully, it's clear that volleyball is a BIG game with lots of rules and a heaping helping of complexity. Multiple teams mean that you have four options:

We saw in the last chapter that these multiplayer options can add significant layers of complexity to a simple game. Right out of the gate, the challenge is daunting. In addition to providing for two teams, having multiple players on each team means that you have to program a way for the player to switch between different characters. And who knows how you're ever gonna animate that puma?