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Flappy Bird-style pixel-based game project. This will be a great learning tool for you and others to understand importing pixel art, basic gameplay loops, UI, and more. Let’s break this down into structure, features, and recommended asset specs.

🎮 GAME OVERVIEW

• Genre: Side-scrolling Flappy Bird clone
• Level: One infinite-scrolling level
• Player Input: Spacebar to jump/flap
• States:
  1. Idle/Hold: Player is idle, with animation swapping between two frames. Message: “Press Space to Jump”.
  2. Play: On pressing Space, the game begins. Score starts counting.
  3. Dead: On collision, freeze everything, show “You Died! Press R to Replay”.
• Features:
  1. Player can jump and also land on ground (optional)
  2. Blocks/obstacles appear from the right
  3. High score and current score UI
  4. Pixel-perfect rendering
  5. Sounds (jump, crash, etc.)
  6. Fade transitions

🧱 STRUCTURE IN UNITY

🔧 1. Main Components

• Object Purpose
• GameManager Handles states: idle, play, dead
• UIManager Manages score UI, high score, messages
• PlayerController Handles movement, animation, jump
• ObstacleSpawner Spawns obstacle prefabs
• Obstacle The moving object the player avoids
• FadeManager Handles fade-in/fade-out transitions
• AudioManager Manages sound effects (jump, crash, etc.)

🎨 2. Unity Setup Tips

• Pixel Perfect: Use the Pixel Perfect Camera (Unity package).
• Orthographic Camera.
• PPU (Pixels Per Unit): Usually 16 or 32 PPU for pixel art.
• Set Filter Mode = Point (no filter) on all pixel textures.

🧱 RECOMMENDED ASSET SPECS

📏 General Game Resolution

• Reference Resolution: 320x180 (16:9) – upscale to 640x360, 960x540, etc.
• Easy to scale on modern screens, looks retro.

🧍 Player Sprite

• Size: 16x16 or 32x32 pixels
• Idle Animation: 2-frame animation (switch every 0.5s)
• Flying Animation: 2-frame loop (faster switch e.g. 0.2s)
• Flap Jump: vertical velocity impulse
• Landing on Ground (optional): Add a collider to the floor

🧱 Obstacle (Pipe/Block)

• Size: 16x64 or 32x128, varies
• Spawn Rate: Every ~2 seconds (adjustable)
• Speed: Moves left at a fixed speed, say 2-3 units/sec

🌄 Background/Ground

• Tiled background or static image, scrolling
• Ground as collider

🔊 Sounds & Music

🎼 Music

• Intro music Triggered on game load
• Game music Triggered on game play
• Defeat music Triggered when player loses

📢 SFX

• Jump: Short ‘boing’ or ‘flap’
• Crash: 'Thud' or 'pop'
• Flap/Jump Small "flap" or "boing" Triggered on Spacebar press
• Score point Light "ding" or "chime" When player passes obstacle
• Crash/Death “Thud” or "splat" When player hits obstacle
• Start Game "Whoosh"/pop in Optional, for UI transition
• UI Click (if needed) Button click FX Optional if using UI menus
• Restart Game
• Score Up: Ding