Video (Low quality)

For the game over screen I created a sequence in after effects. It transitions the screen through a series of bars to a static background with the text ‘Desynchronised’, which slowly fuzzes away and becomes distorted and red as the retry and menu words appear. Though these are not actual buttons, I made them work as such by putting a gameobject behind them that can only be clicked on once the player has globally been confirmed as dead in the game.

The gameobject with the mesh renderer enabled for placement

Clicking on a retry or menu reloads the scene or sends the player to the menu, respectively. It also resets the player’s status and reloads the game scene meaning it can be played again without leaving remnants of the previous gameplay.

Retry code (RestartOnClick):

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class RestartOnClick : MonoBehaviour {

	// Use this for initialization
	void Start () {
	
	}
	
	void OnMouseDown()
	{
	        // this object was clicked - do something
		audio.Play();
		Invoke("Load", 1);
		PlayerDie.PlayerAlive = true;
	}   

	void Load()
	{
		Application.LoadLevel ("Debug");  
	}
}

Upon adding textures to objects and illuminated shaders to the enemies and obstacles for testing purposes, we realized our game was moving more towards a spacey theme with neon elements similar to geometry wars. Then when I was testing out a custom effect using the instantiate command I accidentally spawned all of these:

Textures + materials disabled

I thought, what if these were asteroids, would it be fun to look at or just make everything a lot more cluttered and detract from the experience.

In the end we decided against it but Musa modelled an asteroid for this reason so the possibility still remains.
I also was able to create a movement barrier for the ship and reticle, keeping the player constrained within the camera.

Image from finalized build (Edited back into post)

I did this by disabling the respective directions’ input by flipping the value, for instance pressing right makes the player move on the x axis by a value of 1, but once they reach the barrier and try to continue moving in the direction the code flips it to make the input conflict with itself resulting in an x axis movement value of 0, meaning the player will not move. The same was done for the reticle.

I used an individual script for each side and called it in the movement script. Here is an example of the script I used for the barrier on the right.

StopRight script:

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class StopRight : MonoBehaviour 
{
	public static bool stopPlayerRight = false;
	
	// Use this for initialization
	void Start () 
	{
		stopPlayerRight = false;
	}
	
	// Update is called once per frame
	void Update () {
		
	}
	
	void OnTriggerEnter(Collider col)
	{
		if(col.gameObject.tag == "Player")
		stopPlayerRight = true;
	}
	
	void OnTriggerExit(Collider col)
	{
		if(col.gameObject.tag == "Player")
		stopPlayerRight = false;
	}
}

Called in movement script:

	void Update () 
	{
		float horizontal = Input.GetAxis ("Horizontal");
		float vertical =  Input.GetAxis("Vertical");

		if(StopUp.stopPlayerUp == true)
		{
			vertical = Mathf.Clamp(vertical,-1f, 0f);
		}

		if(StopDown.stopPlayerDown == true)
		{
			vertical = Mathf.Clamp (vertical,0f, 1f);
		}

		if(StopLeft.stopPlayerLeft == true)
		{
			horizontal = Mathf.Clamp (horizontal,0f, 1f);
		}

		if(StopRight.stopPlayerRight == true)
		{
			horizontal = Mathf.Clamp (horizontal,-1f, 0f);
		}