Blocks and monsters need to be spawned randomly for less predictable gameplay. These objects cannot be spawned inside of each other and must be within the bounds of the level.

Create an abstract class Spawner which sets custom bounds and has an amount of objects to spawn. It sets the transform of the object and instantiates it with a custom prefab. The purpose of the abstract class is that it increases the modularity of spawning. There are similarities in spawning both monsters and blocks, like needing boundries and an amount of items to spawn. Having monster and block child classes now allow much more customizability! For example, for a specific type of monster that is stronger than others, you may want to spawn less of them or have them spawn in different bounds. This way you can create an ImpSpawner with it's own custom prefab, amount of items, and bounds. Or in the case of blocks, there are gem blocks and regular blocks. We can inject the functionality of a 50% spawn probability within the spawn method of the block spawner child class, as seen below.

To clone the feel of the game Downwell, movement needs to have a slow but smooth acceleration feel. The player needs to feel springy when jumping and bouncing off of objects in 2D.

In order to create the best 'falling' experience I could, I felt a Dynamic Rigidbody rather than Kinematic was necessary on the player as I could use Unity's built in gravity system. In order to make that feel right though, horizontal movement needed to be smooth as the gravity would impact that as well. After lots of testing and research, I felt Vector2.SmoothDamp created the best feel.

Using a Dynamic Rigidbody came with some unprecedented challenges with horizontal movement. Thanks to gravity, movement felt like mud. acceleration was so slow that it felt like there was an input delay. But when acceleration was turned up, jumping and falling became way too fast. so, instead of clamping a max force, I added a lesser opposite force once the player reached that max value. This resulted in much floatier jumping and falling which felt great.