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So much for weekly entries

In case I failed to mention, FIEA is an accelerated program. The intention is to condense a 2 to 3 year Master’s Degree into 4 sequential semesters (including summer). This means a loss of sleep is borderline guaranteed. Time to cover just a few things that I’ve been working on:

Rapid Prototyping - Story

Since I am so far behind on posting, I am going to focus this post on my second prototype. Space Between is a first person space exploration game.

You take the role of Jess an astronaut on the International Space Station when something goes wrong. Debris hits the station and everything is destroyed.

Utilizing dialogue trees and the difficulties of space traversal, you must utilize your air jet-pack to risk saving your partner Nick, or ditch him and make a run for the escape pod yourself.

Implementing a dialogue tree with multiple endings was not only difficult in a 2 week timeline, but quite tedious. I am very proud of our teams ability to put this together in such a short timeline.

Here are our current statistics based on the team and classmates play throughs:

Overall, I enjoyed working on Story the most so far in Rapid Prototyping.

You can check out a playthrough of Space Between below:

I will make sure to post info on my most recent Prototype and perhaps info on our Capstone Pitches! Don’t forget to check out The Unofficial FIEA Podcast to hear from current and past students on their experiences!

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Week 4: Writing weekly is hard

This is going to be a shorter post.

A very busy “off-week” indeed. Now, when I refer to this past week as an “off-week” I am referencing a lack of Rapid Prototyping. We have one week off between each two week prototype. Do not allow this to fool you into thinking that a week without Rapid Prototyping is an easy week.

GDD #1

This week was our first Game Design Document in Production I. This assignment is vital to becoming a game designer. Think of it is the introduction to a new game concept, that you show investors in order to convince them it’s worth the money to create a prototype of the game you would like to make. Then if that prototype is good, there is a possibility of the game actually being produced. 

We will be producing these documents weekly for the next 5 weeks.

Here is a link to my first one if you’d like to check it out: CeleBrawl

Also don’t forget to check out the podcast. 

Episode 03 is now available!