#assignment 3 development

[jishxd]

Week 12 Assignment 3 Iteration and Changes

This week as a group we finished off the remaining play test and started to integrate the feedback we got. The feedback that was mainly tailored towards me was the designs of the sprites, this reflected that some of the asteroid sprites designs needed to be tweaked or remodelled. The first sprite I worked on was the large asteroid because users thought that having it the same sprite as the normal asteroid was a bit confusing so I made this sprite a little bit brighter as well as the frames rotate slower too. The next asteroid I worked on was the mine asteroid which we found out that it spins too fast which realistically they thought should spin slower as theres a heavy bomb inside of it. I also tweaked the design as well making the bomb more pronounced in the asteroid. The last feedback that was toilored towards me was that the users thought the design of the player was too basic and needed to be bigger as it was hard for them to tell where abouts they were on the map. The new updated sprites i created this week are displayed below:

[jishxd]

Week 10 Assignment 3 Development

Group Formation

This week in class we had to form groups for assignment 3 which I formed a group with the students who I regularly sit with each week.  We discussed during the tutorial what kind of game we wanted to create as well as whose assignment we would use. We decided to use Ben's asteroid game, however in doing so we scrapped the sprites of the game but kept the core mechanics.

Assignment 3 Group Discussion

During our team discussion this week outside of class we were testing the game out and realised that we had a lot of bugs that needed to be fixed such as there were magic number values which didn’t mean anything or meant a value for one object but then something completely different for another. The other key bug was when you shot an asteroid with a power up bomb it would play the explosion animation in a different area of the screen.  The one thing that I was tasked to focus on was creating game sprites such as different types of asteroids and creating the players spaceship sprite. This week I created the basic asteroid sprite and its animations along with the shraploid one.

[chengyangli]

Assignment 3 - Development Progress

Team formation and Task selection:

Fortunately, I joined a very active group during the tutorial. Everyone was very proactive and had their own excellent understanding of game design. In the project decision stage, everyone first shared their A2 results and gave a brief introduction to the game content. Then, through voting, we decided to use spin to win as the goal of our group's continued development. Although my project did not gain the support of my teammates, I think it is more reasonable for the group to choose a more complete game for subsequent development, and I personally like the unique game mechanism of spin to win. After getting to know each other, everyone discussed the possibility of subsequent development of the game. I proposed the concept of adding an overheating system and shielding enemies, and my teammates also proposed more abundant game elements and gameplay such as missile attacks and combo systems.

Development：

In the second week after the group was formed, everyone assigned their own development parts and started to invest in them. I was responsible for the development of the combo system, which aims to allow players to accumulate higher combos through coherent operations like fighting games. Encourage players to challenge themselves and break through themselves again and again through their excellent skills. During the development process, because there were no suitable resources, I chose free resources in the gdevelop library for development. By adding a new variable to count the number of combos and increasing the clock to calculate the length of the combo, if you go over three seconds without destroying an enemy you will start losing accumulated combos.