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I’m back

After a long holiday and a long overdue blog post, I’m back and back at school. A new year of learning game design and how the game industry works as a developer. I have already been back at AiE for 3 weeks already and we have completed our first assessment already. This assessment was to write up a full game design document and i decided to write up an overdue game idea that has been in my mind for a long while now. Hopefully with the fully written design document, i can finally start on making the game on my free time. I have been looking at the schedule for this year and it looks hectic, a lot of making games. i hope to keep up with the projects given and increase my knowledge in my game design career. I’m ready, lets do this.

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Finished product

It took 10 weeks on this project and it is finally complete. It was such an amazing experience working together with people, who are now considered as my close allies and making a game from scratch with them.  They have worked so hard on this project and i am so glad i was able to work with them.

After 10 weeks of hard work, the creeper project has finally been completed. All these sweat and tears working on this project was definitely worth it. Thank you to all of you for working so hard on this project, our baby that started from a small idea and became something bigger. This was an amazing experience working with each and every one of you and i hope this project has been a good one like it has been with me.

SO MUCH SCREENSHOTS YAY!!!!!!

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Goldmembers

1 more day left until we have to hand in our final assessment for the year. The game is looking so awesome and i can’t wait for it to be shown.  Today, we have been writing up our peer review documents towards our team members. So much typing has been typed up... writing about members are hard. 

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Silence is Golden

Today was spent writing up the 2000-word post mortem. It definitely took a lot more time than expected but it’s done. Yay. Next time i won’t procrastinate on this. I really should have started it earlier because i knew it would take long for me to complete. I also forgot to bring my headphones so i could block myself out from the outside world. I was too distracted from the noise and it was hard to focus. This will be the last time i leave my headphones at home. Other than that, the project is looking pretty cool at the moment, no screenshots yet. But we have a structured schedule for these last 2 days of working. I hope we can meet the requirements and complete this assessment with flying colors.  

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Looks like gold.

The final pieces of the art assets have been assembled onto the project. The level is looking amazing and its all finally coming together. We are working real hard getting this game working and I believe it can be done. Other news and off topic, there was a bomb scare near the school campus. After an hour of worry, it turned out to just be shoes. 

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Jar of Gold at the end of the rainbow.

We are traveling on the magical journey towards the jar of gold which end in 9 days from today. We are finally making the progress that we want, we got our artist who has been away for 2 weeks sending us his work. The amount is too much but it’s something and we got to assemble these assets together before the 18th so he may get assessed. WE GOT THIS. 

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Heart of Gold

Most of the work has been completed, its just all about putting it into the game and getting the bugs fixed. Our artists are just spitting out all these arts for out menu and its great. However, our one artist is still in the dark and we cannot get in contact with him no matter how hard we try. I guess he is just away with the “fallout” sickness..... 

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GoldenEye

Fixes, Fixes, Fixes. That’s all that needs to be done. Our game is filled with bugs and all the fixed created new one. The daily routine of a game development team. 

So there isn’t much to talk about. We have one problem though. One of my artist has been absent from the project and getting in contact with him is a bit difficult. Might go Pierce Brosnan on him. 

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Everything you touch turns to Gold. ohhhh

Gold is here and it is just fixing everything we have in the game, making it perfect. Us, designers, have prepared for the rest of gold which concludes in 3 weeks. we have been testing and bug reporting and getting our members to work on the game. We got a lot to do. its crunch time. 

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Beta be done.

Beta is done and handed in. Oh my, so much progress has been made. We finally got our wall climbing mechanic and transformation shader working. YAY and i got screenshots! 

Now its time for gold. Going to polish the game by fixing all the bugs and level assets. We are gaining momentum and we shall make it to the end. Lets go.

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Testing Betas

Today, we had a chance to test the builds of other groups in my class. They are looking amazing and i am extremely happy for them that they have gone so far in this assessment. Looking at these other projects have given me motivation to continue working on my project and get it up to their level. 

Now I got SCREENSHOTS!! YAY

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Change

We have 1 week left for beta and we haven’t been meeting requirements. Colin and I have decided it’s time for a change. In order to become better as a designer/ producer, we need to start becoming more productive and more involved with our members. It is time to become better for the future. We had to cut a lot of art and scripts to fit the tasks in the short amount of time that we have. 

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Beta Menu

Today has been testing the game and working on the menu interface. Just laying out the positions of the buttons and the connecting interface menus. I have been having a lot of fun with that and trying to figure out the scripts for the menu. so far all the canvases connect with each other and i will also complete the volume and sensitivity sliders for the game as soon as possible. Once the load script is completed, testing for the save points and loading to check points will begin.

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Scope is Beta

Spent most of the week attempting to fix the scope for beta. At the moment, it is getting better. I’m just trying to get into the mind set of beta which is different from alpha and it’s just taking longer than expected. I do have my members working on their tasks but i got to get some more work for them. I will be testing the game and writing up a bug report that lists the bugs that need to be fixed by beta. 

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Beta than Alpha

Yesterday was the start of Beta. This is the time i make my change. I have become more focused on this project and changed my ways to better suit myself as a person and my team for the greater good. This will definitely be better than alpha. 

Our artist Kevin Bava has finished the enemy model and it looks amazing. 

Today i have been working on the menu screen, assembling the layout so it is ready for the scripts. 

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Alpha Conclusion

We finished our alpha today and we have a lot of problems than i have anticipated. Our communications with the group has caused us problems and this needs to be fixed asap. Most of these problems are my fault as i did not keep up in the management with my team. I did not collect the problems that were happening and did not address them appropriately. I do need to pick up by game for next assessment when the gold version will be submitted. I am ready to commit more into this assessment