The vertical slice is coming together nicely, the final presentation to identify why our game is valuable is under way, and we are rapidly preparing for the formal oral presentation.
Necromanager has been an exciting project to work on, the team has at time butted heads (all in efforts to produce the best player experience). The stress of the quickly approaching final presentation was building.
So we put our heads down, practiced again and again, ensuring we would be knowledgeable and prepared to showcase our game to the public. All the way remember to breath, not allowing the stress to boil over. Allowing the team to be confident and ready for the public presentation.
The day of the presentation has come and we as a team and ready. A strong hope that our game will be selected to move forward, and we can begin the heavy polish phase with new members.
Tuesday, November 25, 2014
Tuesday, November 11, 2014
Great strides from Blocks to first Art pass
-The first art pass-
We were looking for a refreshing pass of character and enemy art to breath live into the project. The first pass was a nice attempt towards finding the look we want to reach. They needed work and we as a team knew this, so our artists are working with 2D for the basis of character development.
Pulling inspirations for particular games, Don't Strave and Plants v. Zombies. Looking at them for ideas on how to create a light-hearted undead creature and 2D art defined movement.
-The resulting art of the first pass-
Honestly it needs for work. So are plan is all in-coming is currently a WIP for the temporary future. We have solid environmental artist, who are provide the character art. They are making strides for the current game, but we would benefit from the support of a character artist.
-Planning ahead-
The future plans are feature lock, programming new code with crucial pieces, and heavy polish on art implementation and balancing the game feel.
We were looking for a refreshing pass of character and enemy art to breath live into the project. The first pass was a nice attempt towards finding the look we want to reach. They needed work and we as a team knew this, so our artists are working with 2D for the basis of character development.
Pulling inspirations for particular games, Don't Strave and Plants v. Zombies. Looking at them for ideas on how to create a light-hearted undead creature and 2D art defined movement.
-The resulting art of the first pass-
Honestly it needs for work. So are plan is all in-coming is currently a WIP for the temporary future. We have solid environmental artist, who are provide the character art. They are making strides for the current game, but we would benefit from the support of a character artist.
-Planning ahead-
The future plans are feature lock, programming new code with crucial pieces, and heavy polish on art implementation and balancing the game feel.
Modifying the room blocks
-The fatal error-
During the previous, meeting which I created the additional room blocks the generation set. I failed to add the prefabs to the repository. Leading to a lost of rooms, but thankfully the learning curve was easy to master. Allowing me to jump back into the program and quickly recreated the missing room blocks.
-The second pass of room blocks-
Having ensured the last set of rooms were added to the repository, I continued to create additional rooms. I set out to define buffer zones without graves. Allowing hallways and empty area to give the player more time and space to build barricades.
During the process to mitigate issue with the spawning of room pieces, I would run the test demo repeatedly. Checking for missing fences, looking at the entire area, and making sure players could have space to move for each graveyard generation.
-The next step-
Review the current set of rooms and addition to room generation assets to develop variety and ensure the space spawn enough graves for zombies to provide a challenge to players.
During the previous, meeting which I created the additional room blocks the generation set. I failed to add the prefabs to the repository. Leading to a lost of rooms, but thankfully the learning curve was easy to master. Allowing me to jump back into the program and quickly recreated the missing room blocks.
-The second pass of room blocks-
Having ensured the last set of rooms were added to the repository, I continued to create additional rooms. I set out to define buffer zones without graves. Allowing hallways and empty area to give the player more time and space to build barricades.
During the process to mitigate issue with the spawning of room pieces, I would run the test demo repeatedly. Checking for missing fences, looking at the entire area, and making sure players could have space to move for each graveyard generation.
-The next step-
Review the current set of rooms and addition to room generation assets to develop variety and ensure the space spawn enough graves for zombies to provide a challenge to players.
Learning the new level building
-The Initial Learning Curve-
Our programmer set up a module room block, to be randomly generated and connected together to build the space the player will explore. There was an initial learning curve to building out the room sets.
Tim was gracious enough to explain the process as I built out my first room set. Learning how to use the room end connectors (the forward position), the scripting to apply, and the numbers to modify to ensure the proper layout.
Having quickly picked up the process, I began making additional room pieces to get additional variety within randomized level build. I created six additional room blocks to add to the overall randomization level generation.
-The results of the first pass-
The room sizing had to be oddly numbered to ensure accurate centering of rooms during generation. This would allow the fence pieces to properly draw and contain the player within the defined space.
Overall the first pass was a good introduction to the established system.
Our programmer set up a module room block, to be randomly generated and connected together to build the space the player will explore. There was an initial learning curve to building out the room sets.
Tim was gracious enough to explain the process as I built out my first room set. Learning how to use the room end connectors (the forward position), the scripting to apply, and the numbers to modify to ensure the proper layout.
Having quickly picked up the process, I began making additional room pieces to get additional variety within randomized level build. I created six additional room blocks to add to the overall randomization level generation.
-The results of the first pass-
The room sizing had to be oddly numbered to ensure accurate centering of rooms during generation. This would allow the fence pieces to properly draw and contain the player within the defined space.
Overall the first pass was a good introduction to the established system.
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