Siobhan O'Connell

Game design student

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Tardis

Working in maya this morning to waist some time. I ended up making the tardis.

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Lighting

I’ve been working on lighting today, I used post processing to fix lighting.

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Old work

Going through some old old work I did earlier this year and improving them, I have started working on my hero model from the mother duck project.

So far I have merged some of the vertices and have started refining the mesh.

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Falling blocks

We now have the falling blocks working in the scene.

Gold is coming along nicely, we have now fixed most of the bugs in the game. Need to still add more assets to the scene and fix the lighting.

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Updated track

A lot of the responses we received was that it was more fun to drive on the terrain. To fix this we made the track more like the terrain by adding hills on the track.

We also added parts of the building wall on the track to make ramps for the player to drive over. More assets were added to fill the track as well.

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Power ups

We have now finalised the art and have the power ups working. 

At the moment the speed boost (the first power up) doesn’t give any player feedback, we are adding motion blur to help the car appear to be faster.

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Time for refinement

We have now gotten most of the mechanics in the game working smoothly and have added the multiplayer aspect of the game. 

For the next two weeks we will be fixing bugs and populating the scene with more assets.

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New track

After play testing our track with the player controller, we decided that we needed more track to drive on and that the old track felt too small.

There are now not as many sharp tuns and the track is now bigger and flat making it easier to drive on. 

The assets haven’t been moved yet so there are some assets that are placed on the track, and more assets to add to make the scene look nicer.

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Spawner

We now have our two spawns working, speed and spikes.

Spikes

Speed

As shown above they are working. We still need to add a timer to the bumper so they don’t stay the entire race and test different speeds to get the most enjoyable track possible  

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Our beautiful AI

Our AI is coming along nicely. 

They now drive around the track, there’s still a few bugs to fixed and nodes to be placed correctly.

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CrusHour - Alpha

For the past week we have been working on the driving mechanic and art assets.

Driving feels much smoother. We have also added box colliders on the track to make driving feel better for the player. 

We are starting to get more of the art assets into the scene. 

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Driving Mechanics

We have made progress in our driving mechanics.

Driving on the track

Drifting now has a hop

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Track improvements

This week we had presentations to the teacher panel. After we received feedback my group decided to make the track wider and instead of remote control cars to make them to a realistic scales. 

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5th iteration

Been working on greyboxing the track the past two weeks. This is the latest iteration I’ve dome on our level. 

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Progress!!!!

The programmer in my group has done a prototype of the AI and player, its amazing!

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Final Project

We started working on our final projects with the artists and programmers a week ago. I’ve Started working on grey boxing for our game.

The team I’m in has decided to go with a death race in a desert. 

We have decided to use toy cars to make everything appear bigger in the scene. 

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Final Project!

We are starting our final group project next week with the artist and programmers tomorrow. 

Tomorrow we are pitching ideas to each other, hopefully it all goes well.