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GDS230 - Week 13 and… 14?

Studio 3

WAAAAAA, it’s the last week of the trimester!!!!!! There was so much needed to be done. I was a little anxious to stop working on this project. I worked pretty hard this trimester, I’m sorta amazed that I was capable of creating good content. I do have my Major Project to work on next trimester, but this project was going down a clear path.

The due date of the project got pushed back. So we had an extra 3 days to work on the project… That didn’t help us in anyway though.There were a lot of interruptions during the last day of the week (when the project was due) and our teacher was nice enough to push the due date. The interruptions being an electrical wire got burned so we were kicked off the floor then we decided to buy pizza from Coles and cook it in the oven on the current floor we were working on. BUT someone left plastic on top of the oven and the stove was accidently turned on. BURNT PLASTIC! We had to evacuate… Ye, great times lol

Ok… SO, what else happened this week?

I managed to finished the guard sprites. I made a total of 4 different guards, which was then implemented into the Unity project by David. David worked on building the sequence for Behind the Curtains/The Dadliest Catch. Those were the two quests merged together and are the last of the King of Thieves quests. The player is required to steal the keys and break out Dariod (Nerri and Jara’s father) from the dungeon, all while navigating through a maze!

On Friday I realised I forgot to make the maps of each town and city for the Maps tab of the Pause Menu I worked on for weeks haha. SO, I started making the maps and finished them all on the day. I waited until the end because people had not finish building the chunks of towns and cities. So the last week was a great time to remember about those o(´^｀)o I really did enjoy making them though. I made them look more detailed then they should be, but the details represent the layout of each town and detail of the environment. I also made the Legend list.

The Maps:

I finished working on the Pocket Change sequence:

I drew a purse (key item) for a mini quest in the Pocket Change sequence:

Ari, our art lead, finished drawing the over-world sprites of the lion AIs and Cuddles. I replaced the naked sprites on the lionine ai and changed the over-world sprite for Cuddles. They are no longer naked.

After this… I think I will make a post talking about how much I’ll miss this class and how the trimester finished. I’m just too tired! So, until then, byeee!

GDS230 - Week 12

Studio 3

Week 12, the second last week of this trimester. It makes me sad that I’ll be working with this team for the last time… I’m grateful to have worked with each of them through the 2 years of my course in Games Design. I’ll probably be creating a soppy summary blog of this trimester, so I’ll save the tears for then haha

In-class

Last week I asked Nichelle, our lead game designer to make some over-world sprites needed for the King of Thieves quests. She gave me the assets and one of the over-world assets was a market stall. I added that with a market stall made by another artist on the team and added that to the Unity project. I then added the stalls made by her onto the chuncks and also added and fixed collision of current stalls.

Assets above are not mine.

I started working on sequences for the second part of the Pocket Change quest. This sequence takes Jamie and one of the thieves, Nerri the Swift, on a pick pocket quest. Nerri teaches Jamie how to steal and the player will overcome obstacles (AI) to get the goods.

I started over-world sprites of guards for the King of Thieves quests. I won’t be drawing diagonal walk positions because it would take more time to complete the over-world sprites. I’ll be creating at least 4 over-world guards, just changing the hair and skin colour. All guards are male because they are hired by King Sinclair and he doesn’t believe a woman can do that job:

I used a naked base sprite made by the art lead (Ari) of this project. I really didn’t intend to make the guards look like cops. I was totally going for a different look (｡•́︿•̀｡)

In-class, our teacher talked to us about presenting/pitching our game to developers from the gaming industry. We talked about where we’d want to pitch it and how we should market the game. I think this will be further discussed next week.

So next week is the LAST week, I will need to finish the over-world sprites of the King’s Guards, and also finish the sequence of the Pocket Change quest.

GDS230 - Week 11

Studio 3

Week 11! So close to the end of this trimester!

This week I continued working on the sequencing of Pocket Change quest. I completed the first scene, which is how the quest Pocket Change is given to the player.

There is quite a few King of Thieves quests and I’m not even sure I’ll get them all done in time. I have so much to do, like continue working on item assets but these sequence are far more important. Right now one of the programmers is using place-holder assets made by out teacher. She’s been really awesome helping us out, but this seems to be too big of a project.

Back to the quests, there are some quests that are missing assets, such as the quest A Favour or Two where the player needs to steal a cart and a horse. To make this work I need an animated horse and a cart and there is no one to do it right now. The art lead is suuuper busy with over-world character sprites and the other artist/lead game designer is suuuper busy too. I’m also missing over-world guard sprites that are needed for most King of Thieves quests. I think I’ll get working on those next week, since there are naked base sprites of humans I can work with.

I partnered up with a fellow games designer and we started talking about The King of Thieves quest. He offered to help me start sequencing the other quests and to build the areas. He (David) actually built the King of Thieves’ hideout so I could work with for sequencing. I was talking to him about the guard sprites needed and how I had the idea that the player will need to battle them to retrieve their clothes for the last quest of King of Thieves. He told me there were no battle sprites of guards so we had to improvise a lot of the quests. Two quests even got cut. Two quests merged. I told him I needed a dungeon/jail for 3 quests and he offered to make it. So I designed a layout of the dungeon and where the guards would need to be placed:

Dungeon:

The guards turn back and forth and surveillance the dungeon for intruders. The dungeon is used in the 3 quests: Real Royalty, Behind the Curtains and The Dadliest.

Next week I’ll start working on the over-world sprites for the guards so we can use them in the quests.

GDS230 - Week 10

Studio 3

It’s week 10! Ahhhhh, everyone is piling tasks on each other, there is a lot needed to be done for the final product! (◍•﹏•)

Last week I started working on documentation for The King of Thieves quests. Last week I finished a quest related to The King of Thieves called Courier. We have extra people coming in working on sequencing for our game. They’re very nice and motivated! So they are called Sequencers and one of the Sequences started working on the Courier quest I’ve written up, so I didn’t have to work on sequencing for it in Unity.

Narrative writing isn’t my forte, but I gave it shot and he Courier quest really needed to be written for story progression. One of my teachers gave me feedback and he pointed out that I use very bad grammar. I was never really good at English even in my later years of High School. The feedback was helpful as he pointed out that I should use simplified dialogue for the characters (as I had) and do that more often. This is fitting because George, Jamie’s brother, is a kid who is the Game Master of the game their playing and his dialogue should be more simplified.

So this week I worked on more documentation, moving along to The King of Thieves’ second quest. I wrote up a summary of the quest then started writing the sequences and dialogue. I was stopped mid-way and asked by the lead programmer to start working on sequences in Unity and come-up with the dialogue and scenes while doing the sequencing. So I did just that and one of the game designers ran me through how sequencing worked. I gave it try and it was a lot of fun!

Pocket Change Documentation:

Pocket Change Sequencing:

So next week I’ll continue working on the sequencing for the Pocket Change quest.

GDS230 - Week 9

Studio 3

It’s week 9 now and everyone is in a hurry to get things done ヽ(￣д￣;)ノ

I finished the Economy Design as much as I could, and started working with it for item icon assets. I’ve been very excited to do the item icon assets since I’ve been assigned to do UI assets in week 1. I really wanted to give it my all and to build up my skills as an artist.

Item Icons:

I later found out we are not having consumables such as health potions, but I thought I might as well add in the icon I made :3

Here is what I worked on from the Item Compendium & Economy Design document, not all content is presented below:

Economy Design Lists:

Our lead game designer helped me out with symbolism for the amulets and gave me great tips on how to draw a glowing effect on Photoshop. Nichelle (our lead game designer) and I discussed about creating made up symbols and also using real-world symbols. I found out a triangle means sun, so I added that on one of the Summer Amulets. Here are the made up symbols:

It took me longer than I should have to draw these item icons, I’m not a very skilled artist and I’m definitely not as quick as the other artists on the team. I’m too much of a perfectionist, or I’m unsure if I’m doing this right or not.

This week I decided to work on documentation for The King of Thieves. I talked with the lead designers and lead artist about the documentation and what’s been worked on already. One of the designers had started working on a quest called Thief where the player encounters 2 thieves. He also came up with headings of the King of Thieves’ quests and made templates of it. So I worked off the headings to grab inspiration for what the quests could be like and wrote up a summary for each quest. I worked on the first quest from The King of Thieves called Courier:

Next week I’ll work on the written dialogue and written sequences of the King of Thieves’ quests.

GDS230 - Week 8

Studio 3

(ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:・ﾟ✧

This week I completed all assets for the Pause Menu. I finished off the assets for the Party & Items tab, then went on to working on the designs AND assets for the Map, Journal and Option tabs. Here are all the assets I made along with a mock-up each tab:

DESIGNS:

Party & Item Tab:

Maps Tab:

Journal Tab:

I worked really quickly on the designs of the Maps and Journal tabs, because to be completely honest, I was taking way too long on making assets for the Party & Item tab. So I got those designs done and started on working on the assets for it. There aren’t many so this was made quicker than the Party & Items tab.

ASSETS:

Party & Item Tab:

Maps Tab:

Journal Tab:

Options Tab:

I worked alongside one of the programmers, who was working on the functionality of the Pause Menu. He was implementing my assets and we even discussed a few ideas for the Pause Menu, in particular the Journal Tab. He had the idea, instead of having tabs for the name of each character, the names would scroll in a straight line left to right with the selected name coming up in the middle each time. When the name is selected, the journals according to that name will appear in the space below. You choose an entry and it will bring up the journal page.

Economy Design

After all the assets were made, I started working on the Economy Design of Rally of the Tropes. It was a task assigned to me on Taiga. I decided to work off the Item Compendium document one of our designers started a while back (Daniel). He designed items for consumables, weapons, armour, tomes, etc as well as adding stats such as speed (which isn’t a mechanic included) and attack value. They added descriptions to the items they made. SO, I worked off all this and decided to make a table to better organise everything. The table changes depending on type of item:

Item Name

Item Description

Item Level

Weapon Effects

Energy Cost

Attack Value

Obtained From? How Much Does It Cost?

How Much Does It Sell?

Is It Implemented In The Game?

When the table is updated with the item compendium, I will start working on Item Icon assets for the items.I will blog with the updated Economy Design document. Bye bye!

GDS230 - Week 7

Studio 3

Wow! Week 7 already, I hate how time flies by o(╥﹏╥)o

This week and last week I started working on the pause menu assets for the game. I mainly worked on the Party & Items tab assets. In last week’s blog post, I added an image showing the style I wanted for the Pause Menu: hand written/drawn, medium on paper. I since then tried out some other styles, but they ended up too plain, messy or bizarre for my liking:

I decided to try gradients with very bright colours and use the patterns on Cuddles clothing, a non-binary character in the game, and added the patterns to the background of the windows. I talked with the art lead and they were happy with the results. So I started working on more assets for the Party & Items tab. Here are a few assets completed:

I couldn’t achieve the look of a hand-written pause menu, but it turned out really pretty none the less!

So yeah! This week wasn’t as productive as I’d like it to be, but I thought hard on what the look of the pause menu should be, because I care. I’m really happy with the way it looks, I have never worked this much on another game project. Next week I hope to have all assets done for all tabs of the pause menu. If so, I will post all assets and mock-ups of what they look like together! (ﾉ´ヮ´)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

GDS230 - Week 6 Pt 2

Studio 3

In-depth detail about the place-holder assets. This blog is related to the Week 6 Pt 1 post

Fonts:

I took a while finding fonts I’d like to use for in-game and real-world purposes. I wanted a handwritten font for the pause menu, explained in another blog and I wanted a parchment font, to give the feel of adventure and fantasy to the player. Here are examples of the fonts I chose:

Links to the fonts used:

http://www.dafont.com/lex.font http://www.dafont.com/dominican.font

This calligraphy-like font is used for the Party notification window.

Dialogue Box:

The design of the dialogue box is the game board Jamie and her brother George are playing. It has a transparent background of the game’s board and a black border, meant to be the paper holding the print of the board together. I was not entirely sure what style of the dialogue box should be. I would of gone for an elegant fantasy styled dialogue box, like this:

I went with the game board design because it relates back to the story of Rally of the Tropes and how the fantasy world is just an RPG board game. Also I made it relate back to the real-world because the Pause Menu is also related back to the real-world, explained in another blog post.

In-Game Journal:

For the in-game Journal Page, I made it take up the whole screen as suggested by fellow game designers and teacher, because it doesn’t allow the player to disregard it immediately and also suggests the journal entry is important. It contains a heading of the Entry, Clarry the Cloud Kraken, an image of the joining party member and the body of information. The image of Clarry is not drawn by me, but I used the concept art made by the art lead. The journal page is styled like a piece of A4 paper because Jamie writes down notes of her progress in the RPG board game. I’ve searched for games I can reference for Journal interfaces:

Like Dishonoured:

Computer Journal:

The computer journal entry assets I made show the desktop of Jamie’s computer. A ‘One Note’ window will be open at all times for player to use. The player will not be able to navigate the whole computer, only the software window.

For the computer journal, our teacher suggested making the real-world journals into an internet blog instead of a software window with note entries, since it did not make sense for Jamie’s friends to write personal entries on one computer. The player can navigate through the computer’s internet browser, reading Jamie’s and her friends’ blogs. These entries will give the player an in-depth perspective of their lives and what it’s like living as a transgendered individual, except for Jamie who is a cis-gendered woman. Having blogs as journal entries will allow us to show the personalities of each character and give casual or formal information about them.

Notice Board:

The last asset I made was a notice board for the game world. This will be used all over the game and will be used to give the player information like back-story of the game world.

Member Joined Party Window:

This window pops up when a new party member has joined. This window includes a picture of the party member on the left and a notification saying: “Member joined the party!” I used the same assets I made for the dialogue box for the party notification window. I used the image of Clarry made by our art lead.

GDS230 - Week 6 Pt 1

Studio 3

I came back to classes this week! I feel much better now, happeee! (*^▽^*)

This week I was asked to make UI place holder assets for a prototype build. The assets I made this week:

- Dialogue window: A window that pops up when a character is talking. Assets include dialogue box and name box

- Computer Journal: When player interacts with computer in the real world. Assets include ‘One Note’ journal window and computer desktop

- Journal Page (Clarry Journal): A pop-up journal window with information about character. Assets include Journal Page window and character information

- Member Joined Party window: A notification window pop-up saying “Member joined the party!” Assets include notification window and image of party member

- A Notice Board Window (game world): A notice board made out of wooden planks and paper hammered to the board

I don’t want to cram this post with a lot of information about the assets, but I have made a separate post about the design of the place holders: LINK

This week I also revised the design of the pause menu I made in week 2 and the party/item tab designed last week:

There were 5 tabs originally, but now there are only 4 tabs in the Pause Menu, these include:

- Party & Items: + Items have 6 categories: All, Consumables, Weapons, Armour, Keys, Miscellaneous + Playable character has own window. Includes equipped item slots and health stats + 4 windows for each party member. Includes equipped item slot and health stats

- Maps: Includes city and town maps only. Includes Legend

- Journals

- Options: + Settings: Audio, Resolution, Brightness + Quit Game + Main Menu

What I have in-mind for the style of the pause menu is a stack of papers, four to be exact, making it appear that Jamie is taking down notes of everything happening in the RPG board game she’s playing with her brother. She is taking down notes of how much health her and her party members have, what items she’s collected, what the towns look like (maps), what the characters are equipped with, etc.

I discussed the idea with the lead artist and lead game designer and they agreed with the design. Here is an example I made around week 3:

I started working on making assets for the pause menu or at least a design of how it could look like:

This week I also started working on documentation in the GDD (Game Design Document):

Sooooooo! This week and next week I will start making assets for the Pause Menu, starting off with the Party & Items tab. I’m really proud of this design and hope I can make something great out of it (^・ω・^ )

GDS230 - Week 5

I couldn’t make it in this week because I was still recovering from the surgery. I did make it to this week’s Monday meet-up and caught up on what I missed. I didn’t stay for long because my mouth was still in a lot of pain.

The team was working on their tasks and I brought up an issue with the design of the Pause Menu I made. I felt that a separate tab for the player’s items and party should be all in one tab. I discussed this with the lead programmer and he strongly agreed. We decided to do this, because it is easier for the player to manage weapons, armour and amulets to party members as well as using consumables for party members. Since I had not designed the party tab yet, we discussed what elements of the party we need for the party & items tab. This is what we came up with: The playable character has their own window showing health and energy points, equipped armour, weapon and amulet. There is 4 windows for the party members, showing the equipped amulet and their energy and health. There is one window for items that has a category selection for easy item search. Here is a mock-up of the Party & Items window:

Drawn by program lead.

I also checked Taiga for tasks I needed to do. I was required to write a list of user interface assets need for the game to be playable.

I’ll refine the design of the Party & Item’s tab using this mock-up as an example. We are required to make a prototype of Rally the Tropes soon, so I’ll be making some place-holder assets for next week and will mention it in the next blog entry. I’m feeling a lot better, so I’ll make it to next class!

GDS230 - Week 4

Studio 3

I had surgery this week to get my wisdom teeth removed! (╯︵╰,)

I need loooots of rest before I can come back to class. I was bed ridden the whole week and was really sick from medication, so that was a fun time. I was not able to work on anything related to the Studio 3 project. It’s a shame I couldn’t work this week :(

Fun fact: a tiny part of my jaw was eaten up from a cyst formed by my wisdom teeth. The more you know!

I hope for a speedy recovery! I’m really enjoying the development of this studio’s game and can’t wait to start working on it again!

GDS230 - Week 3

Studio 3

I forgot to mention in my last blog post: Our team’s game will be a classic 2D top-down view RPG game, with a 2D side-view combat system, very much like the Tales of Phantasia (1995) RPG game. Tales of Phantasia is a game we’d very much like our game to be. Right now, the working title of our game is Rally the Tropes, a title made up by one of our programmers.

In class this week, the game designers discussed the environments of the game. We’ve gone with 4 regions made up of the four seasons – Summer, Autumn, Spring & Winter. I mentioned in my first blog post the basis of the game’s story. The player and their party go on an adventure to seek out the 4 dragons that attacked the player’s home town. These 4 dragons mentioned will inhabit a region each. One Summer dragon, one Autumn dragon, one Spring dragon and one Winter dragon.

We discussed that the Summer region represents anger, the Autumn regions represents fear, the spring region represents anxiety and the Winter region represents depression, but these could change further into development. All these feelings relate back to transgendered people, who are discriminated against based on the gender they identify with and the result of the discrimination they deal with. With that said, each region will have enemies that fit with the environment. Enemies who are part of the Winter region could drain the energy points of the player, as depression exhausts an individual and drains all their energy or will to do anything. The aesthetics of these enemies will relate back to the emotion of the regions.

After discussing the environments of the game, we went on to coming up with names for towns. I helped come up with the name “The Ember Vale” :D

This week we also had a pitch to present in front of some design teachers in the campus, since the team is made up of one class (we had no audience). We pitched like we usually do. Slides included:

- Introduction - Milestones - Concept Art - The Story/The Game - Project Management - Resources - Engine Tools - Many more

We received a lot of feedback, most were harsh but necessary and helpful to point out. We actually forgot to mention what type of game we’re developing! Teachers pointed out a fault in the milestones, such as leaving tasks until late. They were worried where the project would end up. It was a boring presentation and a teacher pointed out we talked too much about how we’re going about developing the game instead of talking more about the game itself. I talked on one slide, about the UI. I talked about the pause menu interface designed last week and what games I have referenced.

Last week and this week I made quick designs of the over-world and dialogue interface. What I had in mind for the open-world interface is a mini-map of the area surrounding the player and a drop-down notification window when a player enters a new zone telling where they are.

I referenced Pokémon Ruby (only Pokémon game I’ve played) for the enter town notification window. I felt this design is necessary for a game with a big open-world. I think it really helps players keep an idea of where they are in the game at all times. As in I mentioned in my Week 2 blog post, the player will be able to have access to an over view of an area and this feature will help players know where they are.

On our Monday meet-up last week, I was discussing with Jason, one of the game designers, about what should be included in the over-world interface. He felt that having nothing in the over-world interface made it feel too empty and needs something for the player to engage with. A feature of the over-world interface would be to have a mini-map in the top corner of the screen. The mini-map design for our game’s open-world interface is inspired from MMORPG game World of Warcraft, RPG game Nier and RPG game Final Fantasy IX.

The design of the dialogue interface is common thing part of storytelling in RPG games. My design was inspired by games like Corpse Party (2008) and Scarlet Weather Rhapsody (2008). The dialogue includes an image (from the waist up) of the characters currently speaking. Their facial expressions and their body language changes according to what they’re saying and to express their emotion. Underneath the image of the characters (bottom of the screen) will be a window with dialogue, switching between characters. In the gif shown in this blog post, there is an interaction feature that would include the key needed to interact with an object or AI in over-world. Our art lead, Ari, will be drawing up the images of characters for the dialogue.

I’ll be having surgery next week on Monday :( Before the surgery, I will do some more research on the user interface for our game. I’m also going to work on a list of UI assets we’ll need in the Project Plan. I will post that in next weeks blog.

CIU212 - Week 13 and Summary of trimester

It’s the final week! So sad, many feelings and little sleep! (ᴗ˳ᴗ) zzz Surviving on instant noodles haha

In class this week Josh and I did our presentation, showing the progress of documentation since week 6. We explained the gem system, the world’s themes, enemies’ abilities, experience and levelling, unlockable abilities, special abilities, life orbs, art assets, our missed goals and a our new schedule.

The feedback we received was positive and helpful. A teacher recommended a more polished aesthetic and I agree 100%. I figured less monochrome theme and more vibrant, varied colours for levels. To fix the current assets, I could add plants in the crease of the cliff background and make the cracks darker and add more gradient. Just a thought, but I’m excited to see how well I can do.

I forgot to mention, last week we updated the time schedule and updated the Project plan. We showed the class the documentation:

We’ve set our milestones for next trimester, completing worlds every 3 weeks.

Our documentation is up-to-date, but I’m hoping to be working on Parcel Pursuit with Josh over the 3 week holiday. We’ll be adding more to the documentation and working on assets for the game. Level designing, character designing, the future is clear! There is a bit to catch up on, it’s been a very busy trimester! Next trimester is purely working on building the game and we’ll also be doing internships so, I’m hoping I get to do something beneficial. This trimester was a great experience and I’m so looking forward to creating independent games and this is just a first small step. The end of developing Parcel Pursuit we’ll go for Steam Greenlight and see where the game is taken from there.

I’ll be blogging in the holidays with the progress we’re making, but ‘till then, bye! (ノ^∇^)

CIU212 - Week 12

Second last week of the trimester! Exciting stuff! ｡ﾟ✶ฺ.ヽ(*´∀`*)ﾉ.✶ฺﾟ｡

Next week Josh and I have to present the documentation we’ve done for Parcel Pursuit to the class. This means all the documentation we have been working on from week 6 until now. So this week was dedicated to polish the Design Document and to build a prototype of Parcel Pursuit.

I updated the Aesthetics sections of the Design Document, explaining in detail what the enemies appearance is like and also explaining what planets they inhabit and why. I have not drawn concepts of the enemies yet. Under Aesthetics I wrote why I designed Mia with the current outfit she has on and I also wrote descriptions under Themes about the aesthetics of the planets and added images to show what the worlds could look like.

Josh and I updated the Enemy section for Bosses describing that all Bosses of Parcel Pursuit will be different Thieves that attempt to stop Mia at the end of each world. We also discussed the coin collective system and documented it. We’ve decided that gems will be the ‘coin’ in our coin collective system. We’ve included four gems that have different values each and when collected, it will add to the current amount of currency the player has. Each level contains 100 space dollars (SD) worth of gems:

- Yellow Gem – 1 SD - Green Gem – 2 SD - Red Gem – 5 SD - Purple Gem – 10 SD

Each gem has a commonality, Yellow gems being very common and purple gems being very rare in the levels. The gems earned can be spent on items at the shops in between levels. The player can buy weapons and special effects from shops. We’ll be using 3D gems in the prototype for next week, but we want a 2D gem rotating, so I will have to draw a sprite sheet for that.

This week I also created a tillable wooden platform, close to the isometric perspective for the prototype build. The surface of all platforms are most likely to be visible in Parcel Pursuit.

Right now the level has very monochromatic colours as I was going for a very dry look for its desert theme. Parcel Pursuit will be more vibrant and have a variety of different colours by the end of its development.

We also worked the presentation for next week:

Parcel Pursuit has an inventory bar part of the user interface. Originally it contained 5 slots that could hold weapons, food and the key to complete the level. Josh added a separate slot for weapons to better separate and navigate through items. The player can only have one weapon in their inventory and would have to discard it if they want a better weapon. To use items, you must be on the slot for the needed item. Here is a build of the game right now:

Main Menu screen:

Level Select screen:

Gems implemented:

Player collecting life orbs increases health points:

And that’s all for this week! I will post a blog next week explaining the feedback we might receive from teachers about our presentation and documentation. See ya then!

CIU212 - Week 11

It’s the 11th week of the trimester! Trimester is almost over, makes me a little sad! (╯︵╰,)

I’ve been doing so much work for the other class project, but I managed to get assets completed to show the aesthetics of Parcel Pursuit. I have a very good feeling it will look great when I put a lot of work into creating Parcel Pursuit :)

This week I worked on finishing the sprite sheet of Mia’s left & right movements. I also drew 1 sprite for an idle position. I talked about the animation, perspective and style of the sprite sheet in my Week 7 Blog. Just to re-cap, I used the Braid sprite sheet as reference.

I also animated it, to see if it flowed smoothly. Here is comparison between the Braid sprite animation and Mia’s animation:

Josh pointed out when Mia’s left leg is out in the front the pace speeds up briefly. He said it’s fine but now I’m not too sure. It will have to be implemented into the game and tested to see if it works and if it’s too noticeable. He also said Mia is leaning too forward.... which I didn’t notice (゜´Д｀゜) lol Might need to adjust that!

I skipped drawing the sprites when Mia’s right leg comes back in, but I just re-wind the sprite/animation. Didn’t turn out so bad! I noticed I added bobbing when Mia takes a step? Or is in the air, but that was unintentional… now I want to make it more obvious for the game haha, I like that aspect.

When I was drawing, I made around 4 extra sprites when Mia’s legs close in.. so that would mess up with the animation a little.. I am very proud of creating my first sprite ever :3

I also managed to finish the cliff texture I started in week 6. Here is the link to the Week 6 Blog.

It would have been completed sooner, but I didn’t give this Major Project the time it needed! Grr! ANYWAY, I would add a lot more detail, but it tiles seamlessly (so I think) and Josh is very happy with it too! Here is the tile and an example of it tiled.

It’s sorta, should I say, flat? There isn’t a lot of variety in the colour scheme I feel it would need more. I would really like to add cracks and add shine to it.. Never the less, great for my first try I’d say!

So yeah, this week the work was purely aesthetic design of Parcel Pursuit. I shall document this!

As you could tell, I did all these blog posts at once.. I’ll be honest, I had very poor time management this trimester (╯︵╰,) BUT I had a lot fun :3

I think next week we need to present our progress of our game? Hope that’ll go well! See ya then!

CIU212 - Week 10

This week Josh and I purely worked on documentation and developing the story of the game and the enemies that are in it.

We worked with the feedback received in last week’s meeting. We made a table together to organise the enemies better, to compare attack powers and their health easier.

We also made a table representing the stats the player will start with and the increase of those stats in each world, how it increases as the player progresses in the game.

We discussed a collectible orb that can increase the players health:

There will be 2 life orbs per level. Collect 10 to gain a life point. 7 levels per world, 7 worlds. Start with 3 life.

End of world maximums:

1. 14 orbs. 4 life. 2. 28 orbs. 5 life. 3. 42 orbs. 7 life. 4. 56 orbs. 8 life. 5. 70 orbs. 10 life. 6. 84 orbs. 11 life. 7. 98 orbs. 12 life.

Not everything is set in stone, but it is really good to have something! This will make it easier to work on assets next trimester, when we actually get to ‘build’ the game! :3

CIU212 - Week 9

Josh gave me the cold!! I wasn’t able to make it to this week’s class, but resting all day I was able to get better! YAY! (*^▽^*)

We were asked to do a meeting on Monday to discuss our progression on the design document. Last blog I mentioned Josh and I were working on naming the worlds as well as creating their setting/environment. We also worked on the enemies and the worlds the inhabit, how they function in terms of movement and attacks. So we presented that in this week’s meeting, and was advised to create a table to sort the enemies and their attack power, health and so on.

This is the 4th last week of this trimester, so much to work on! Our other class is demanding, even other game developing teams aren’t working much on Major Projects ｡･ﾟﾟ･(>д<)･ﾟﾟ･｡

This week Josh and I will work further on documentation.

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