More Vinyl Changes and Progress

So I mentioned in the last Vinyl related post that we were making some substantial changes to the design.  It sounds like everyone in the cohort did because we're now getting an extra week to work on a prototype.

Anyway, the essence of the game remains the same, but to further emulate being in the groove of a record we decided to put the player in a halfpipe like Sonic 2's special stages.  This allowed us to brainstorm a lot more record-like abilities and functionality.  We still want to effect the stereo sound based on the side of the halfpipe you are on, but are running into technical difficulties with Unity for that, in that Unity doesn't seem to be capable of doing it.  Additionally we came up with ideas such as a player usable "scratch" that rewinds time a bit and of course plays the "wiki wiki" sound.  We'd also like the pipe to curve and drop according to the beat.  I think the coolest, but possibly the hardest feature to implement is changing the point of the song based on if the player gets to far up the side of the pipe and falls into the next track of the record.

What we got so far is fairly simple, we have a player cube that can go up and down a halfpipe while randomly generated balls rush past it.  Here's a screenshot.

The hardest part was getting the cube to actually move along the curve of the halfpipe.  We tried a number of techniques, but ended up settling on a rotateAround method that is currently using the origin.  This isn't going to once we start changing the pipe's direction, but it should suffice for now.  We shouldn't have to change it too much once our levels get more complex.