PlunderSail is finished. A couple of months of hard work and we have our first real game. Massive thank you to the Danger Dingo team and the teachers who helped us along the way. Take a bow guys.
Played around with Unity tutorials tonight and made the roll a ball game, replay value isn't very high though, already bored with it. Time to make a new game.
This morning we were told we would be doing a game jam based on board games. Quickly organised into groups, Angus, Zane and myself began work on THE GREATEST BOARD GAME EVER MADE!!!.
Just before lunch time we started to notice this was in fact THE WORST BOARD GAME EVER MADE!!! The game didn't work at all. We had wasted half our day making something that was no longer viable. What should we do?....Lunch.
Coming back in from Lunch we all had the same basic idea, keep it simple stupid. In the end we had a game called Heart of War.
How To Make The BOARD: The board is a triangle Shape made out of four triangles, the outer triangle are split into pyramids and the middle is split into three like so
Pieces: Each player needs 3 cards, one of each colour (Red, Blue,Green) each player will also need six meeples,three Attack and three defense.
Cards (blue - horse, red - sword, green, spear)
A meeple.
How to play: Starting at red and moving clockwise each player takes it in turns to move one of their units one space each.
When moving into an occupied space you will initiate attack, The winner is decided in a rock, paper, scissors style combat system (red beats green, green beats blue, blue beats red)
If the attacker wins, the defender is removed from the game, if the defender wins, the attacker moves back to his previous space. In the event of a draw the combat is unresolved and the two players are locked in battle, the non participating player may take a free move before combat commences, the third player if next to the said battle can also move into that space creating a three way battle.
The winner of the game is determined by the first player to get one of their pieces into the last space in an oppositions corner.
This was a fun exercise, yet very exhausting and stressful, managing time constraints and moving from the idea process to the prototype process is quite difficult. All in all a very fun lesson.
from left to right; Zane, Angus, Jesse....the peanut gallery.
Day 2 of working on our group board game. New game idea number 3. We have come up with a much better and more simple way to play, Keep It Simple Stupid. After working on the new idea for the morning, we had some user testing from the Art students. mostly positive feedback and some good new ideas. Cant wait to get back on Monday so we can keep working on it.
Today we started working on Unity...........Brain explosion. So much to learn so much to remember.
The first project I worked on was building a terrain and having fun with it. Trees falling through the floor, bodies of water at different heights and mountains that shouldn't be allowed to exist.
My landscapes better angle.
The second project we were asked to work on was to select a picture and try to recreate it using Unity. the picture i selected was probably way beyond my capabilities but I gave it a go.
Punching above me weight!!!
I worked on this for a little while before a simple save crashed to desktop because of a lack of space on the hard drive *facepalm*. My second go produced small results but it’s a start and i look forward to continuing my work on it.
For our first weeks homework we were asked to play at least an hour of a game that we had not played before from a specified list of games. I chose to play “Life is Strange”, based on the fact that chapter one is free to download from the Playstation store.
“Life Is Strange” is a cinematic style game about a young student named Max who likes photography. The game gives you many different decisions to make that have consequences on how the story plays out. Max appears to be struggling with her own mental demons. The game starts off in what appears to be a dream sequence, and this teaches the player a few of the basic controls. Upon waking, Max is in a classroom, and you begin to explore the inside of the school. Most of the objects can be interacted with, such as posters and other students. After witnessing a shocking incident, Max discovers she has the ability to control time. The game gives you time to rewind and consider what the consequence of each previous decision may be.
The story doesn’t give away too much in the first area, but does give you a small taste of what to expect to keep you interested in what might be coming next.
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