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380 Week 12

Summary:

Lantern models: 4.5 hours Fire pit texture: 0.5 hours Texture exports and fixing: 2 hours Level design changes: 0.5 hours Social media and plugging: 5 hours Press release and news article drafting: 1 hour MailChimp draft: 2 hours Teaser voice clip trimming and edits: 2 hours

Teaser scene set-up: 2.5 hours Teaser scene blocking: 1 hour

Total: 21 hours

Our page on indieDB hit #12 on the most popular list

Lantern model

Fire pit concept textured

Chair for teaser trailer

Scene for teaser trailer

Camera blocking

Pose tests

Mailchimp Campaign

Twitter page performance

Reviewer possible

Facebook performance

Discord sharing

Trailer shared in discord

Texture fixes

Pillars imported

IndieDB article

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380 Week 11

Summary:

Pendulum model: 0.5 hours Pendulum unwrap and texture: 2 hours

Texture export and material setup: 3 hours

Script concept: 1.5 hours

Discord testing: 3 hours

Networking and research: 1.5 hours

IndieDB/Gamejolt setup: 3 hours

Shopkeeper teaser concept/thumbnails: 3 hours

Storyboard: 2 hours

Summary: 20 hours

Pendulum model and unwrap

Pendulum texture

Update to wizard’s face

Texture sets exported this week

Pendulum cloud

Wizard hat

Lantern

Pendulum

Stone Pillar

Wizard goblin

Material setup for goblin

Texture folders for objects

Released the test build for the week in a discord

Notes from players

Feedback notes

Tweeted game twitter on my personal account

Organised partnered streamer to review the game

More info on reviewer

Another possible reviewer

New game journalism site that might be good for a review

Set up the IndieDB pages for the game, studio, and my own profile

http://www.indiedb.com/games/puzzle-knight

Set up gamejolt profile

Made a bunch of avatar icons for each of the team

Wrote a script for a teaser trailer

Research into the trailer style

Thumbnails of the trailer in progress

Trailer storyboard

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380 Break week and 10

Summary:

Group dev day - 7 hours Clouds tinkering: 1 hour Clouds animation: 1.5 hours Clouds unwrap: 2.5 hours Clouds texture: 2 hours

Wizard hat: 1 hour Hat unwrap: 1 hour Hat texture: 0.5 hours Wizard texture 1: 1.5 hours Wizard texture 2: 1.5 hours

Dummy animation: 0.5 hours Shield break animation: 0.5 hours

Pillar model: 1 hour Pillar texture: 1.5 hours

Lantern model: 1.5 hours Lantern texture: 2 hours

Unity imports and tinkering: 3 hours

Total: 29.5 hours

Developer day during break

Wizard hat model

Wizard imported, untextured

Wizard hat textured

Wizard texture 1

Wizard texture 2

Pajamas...

Shield break animation

Dummy animation

Dummies in the tutorial level

Clouds sheet

Cogs sheet

Textured cloud

Cloud render

Pillar model

Textured pillar

First lantern version

New lantern version

Textured lantern

Unity tests with spotlight

Character trailer ideas: The Shopkeeper

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380 Week 8-9

Summary:

Animation: 4.5 hours Modelling: 4 hours Unwrapping: 2 hours Exports and baking: 1 hour Unity import and setup: 2.5 hours Animation fixing in engine: 3 hours Texture and material fixes: 2 hours Model edits in unity: 0.5 hours Dummy rig: 0.5 hours

Total: 20 hours

Created the remaining goblin, boss, and shopkeeper animations

Started developing a model for the pendulum in the shadow puzzle based off of user suggestions

Low poly

Smoothed high poly

Best version

Updated version

IT MOVES

Gave the boss a texture (wasn’t applied already)

Had to fix the swords for the goblins because they’d cause them to slide to the right form the collision.

Imported the training dummy

A small animation for the dummy getting hit

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380 Week 7-8

Summary:

Animation: 4 hours Texturing: 3 hours Modelling: 2.5 hours Exports: 2 hours Imports: 2 hours Goblin material set-up: 2 hours Weapon and item materials: 1 hour Unity animation tests: 2.5 hours

Total: 19 hours

Boss animations

New goblin model with varied textures imported and working

Folder layout of them

Some new anims

First version of boss club

Newer version, bigger, more intimidating

Material tests for the club

UV unwrap for the components

Version 1, too spooky horror

Version 2 more cartoony and fun

Shield and sword texture maps

Shield and sword imported and working

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380 Week 6-7

Summary:

Rig tweaking and prepping - 1.5 hours Modelling - 2 hours Texturing - 1 hour Texture exports - 1 hours Animation - 11 hours Animation imports - 2 hours Texture imports - 2.5 hours

Total - 21 hours

Started the week updating the lil dummy

to a higher poly but still cartoony look

and...finally...THE RIG WORKS

Animations

Idle

Walk

Sword swing, fancy feet

Stabby

Death

WIP boss animation

The rig also works in unity!!!

Idle animation imported to unity

First texture test with finished model, lots of seams.

Fixed the seams, brought in all variants of the enemy grunt

Imported shopkeeper too, lookin swanky

High poly model with a mock up texture

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380 Week 5-6

Summary: Rigging(again and again and again): 6 hours Import tests: 2 hours Modelling: 2 hours Coding: 1.5 hours Research: 1 hour Material tests: 2 hours Texturing: 2.5 hours Meeting: 3 hours Total: 20 hours

Still trying to fix the goblin rig issue

The locator snaps to the hips location when pasting keyframes into the skeleton

Item outlines for interactions and signals as per user issue

Code for outlining objects

Example of outcome i wanted

Tests with game objects

Outliner and inspector settings

Testing with always visible silhouettes

Always visible even through walls

no longer visible through walls by removing ZTest Always

Base mesh for training dummy

Deformer added for cartoony effect

Material mapping

Render pass with version 1 textures

Lonely

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380 Week 4-5

Summary: Meeting - 3 hours Texturing - 2 hours Rig fixing - 2 hours Animating - 11 hours Texture export and testing - 3 hours

Total - 21 hours

Meeting notes and sketches from fishbowl meeting

New alternate goblin texture now with lederhosen

Animation list for the goblins and boss

Rig issues causing the root to deform and break

Boss sword swing

Boss stomp

Goblin combat idle

Goblin attack

Death

Goblin idle

Goblin walking cycle

Exported colour maps of the goblin textures

In-engine texture tests

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380 Week 3

Summary: Meetings - 2.5 hour Modelling - 2 hours Unwrapping - 4 hours Grunt texture - 4 hours Shopkeeper texture - 3 hours Extra textures - 2.5 hours Rig fixes and prepping - 2 hours Total: 20 hours

Started the week unwrapping the goblin model for texturing

Before i fixed the UV scale the images were pretty skewed

First version of the goblin with texture

Face looked a bit too avocado-y so I wanted to change the skin texture

Oven mitts look rough and itchy

Cheap junky boots found in the trash

smoothed out texture with rough patches on the skin seemed a lot better

Our shopkeeper is a very nicely dressed goblin

First version of the texture unique to the shopkeeper

Getting the shopkeeper scene set up and scaled for animations and defining the bone structure and final skin weights for the goblins so I can make a control rig for easier animation

Shopkeeper required serious weighting and parenting so his clothing stayed on

Also required more time unwrapping fez and glasses to get a good scale on them

I did some extra textures for the grunts to see what they could look like clothed

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380 Week 2

Summary: Rigging - 8 hours Modelling - 3 hours Texturing - 7 hours Learning git - 1 hour Painting weights and testing - 2 hours Team meeting - 1 hour

22 hours total

I started the week with texturing the shield for the goblin and trying out different patterns and designs for the front.

magical cracks with edits to the height map

traditional painted design

clean design with height map edits to add planks

white hand of saruman and below a silly test with brushes

and decided I’d like to try randomise the texture for the goblins if possible

i also started the sword texturing as well but might make changes to the UV map for better scaling

I want to give the image of a scrapwork sword made from different types of wood

the crossguard UV scale is slightly too small and less detailed

I spent a few hours exploring what was wrong with the current goblin model and made some slight changes so it looks less... terrifying

Before above and after below

and tried importing the previous rig from the old model to it which did not work so i tried an autorig

but the controls weren’t up to scratch so i made my own custom rig for the goblin by placing the joins and weighting them

and had to spend a lot of time painting skin weights so the mesh didn’t deform too badly while posing and animating

and tested basic posing while i had time

i might need to edit the weights around the arm pits a bit more

TEASER for next week

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380 Week 1

Summary: 4 hours: sketching and concept development 7 hours: modelling 4.5 hours: group meetings 1 hour: brainstorm voice memos 1 hour: Critique presentation preparation

We started the week with a big discussion about our plans for the development period and settled on some tasks for us to complete

going over what feedback we were given at the end of sem 1 and from the first crit of sem 2

attending an indie dev meetup in the city another meeting was held with advice from developers

I sketched some new concepts to flesh out what goblins could wear as well as a new hint system for the game

I wanted to save time and touch up the old goblin model in mudbox but ran into some issues

but eventually came to this

side by side comparison of old and new

haunting runescape-esque facial style as a test

then i redesigned the goblin’s items

chair leg, plank, fence picket

and the shield

initial UV test and unwrap TO BE FIXED A LOT

and i started modelling out a special weapon intended for a boss

2.3m high

think executioner smough from Dark Souls

finally i began recording my car rides since i am driving a lot and just talking about my ideas for the game to see if i come up with anything good

https://www.dropbox.com/s/0lzhgr2q2d66htp/1-08-17-brainstorm1.m4a?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/cq6qvzzr55bnnvk/1-08-17-brainstorm2.m4a?dl=0

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Week 13

Summary: -Goblin re-animating 5 hours -Setting up folio 2 hours -Making demo song 2 hours -Item sound effects 1 hour -Group discussion 1.5 hours

At the start of the week I was told the goblin animations weren’t working at all and that I had to redo them with a new version of the rig.

these were imported and the goblin animated properly this time

I organised all the work I did this semester into a folder for the folio submission

I created a music track for the demo

https://soundcloud.com/ben-herbert-717166575/demosong

and a sound for coin collections

https://soundcloud.com/ben-herbert-717166575/coincollect

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Week 12

Summary: -Editing goblin rig 30 mins -Goblin animation import 2 hours -Script and spotting sheet 1 hours 30 mins -Recording sounds 1 hour -Editing and mixing sounds 4 hours -Organising sound library 30 mins -Group Discussion 2 hours Total: 11.5 hours

A good chunk of this week was spent trying to import the goblin AI animations to the unity project, there were some issues with importing and the base model not matching with the animations

Sol, Tama, and Sean helped to get the imports working a bit more but animations still don’t tirgger

Other half of the week I delved into sound design and created a script and spotting sheet

We went to record in Z9 but the booths were taken. Brynn did the voice lines and I have done some of the atmos sounds

These are all cut from this

and organised into this

AT2020 mic used for SFX

2 headsets setup

Zoom recorder for atmos

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Week 11 Work

Summary: -Group Discussion - 1 hour -Level layout diagrams - 30 minutes -Item Animations - 30 minutes -Item modelling and fixing - 30 minutes -Goblin Animations - 7 hours -Animation Playblast/Export - 2 hours -Presentation Help - 30 minutes

This week was crunch time for animations to get them ready for implementation to the unity project

Below are the new animations done this week

Idle Blocking

Shield Stagger

Death

Idle

Stagger

Strafe Left

Strafe Right

Attack

Walking Revised

Idle Animation

Idle Animation

I did up another two level maps to lay out the levels that might be used for the prototype

I made a sword and revised the shield model for the goblin

and did some animations for the collectable items in the game

Thanks to Sol’s help and using some tutorials I could export the animations and skeleton rig for unity

Spent 10 minutes on a short sound asset list

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Week 10 Work

Summary: -Group chats/meetings - 1 hour 30 minutes -Character Modelling - 3 hours -Character Rigging Attempt - 2 hours -Character Animation - 2 hours 30 minutes -SFX research - 1 hour (24 hours downloading -_-)

I made a naked version of the goblin due to rig issues with last week’s model:

Spent a lot of time trying to figure out the rig for unity but got Sol’s help eventually. Started with aciton poses for idle and targeted respectively:

and a patrol walk cycle

and a running cycle when engaging the player

I like the goofiness of the rigid upper body but i’d still like to tweak it a little more to give a more natural animation.

These poses work with all weapons so far

updated the asset list sheet

finally downloaded and sifted through a whole lot (20gb) of royalty free creative commons sound effects for possible useful clips

Bought this portable recorder to record atmos and foley sounds for the game when I’m not in studio

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Week 9 Work

Summary: -Group Meeting - 30 minutes -Enemy Model - 4 hours -Map Element Modelling - 2 hours -Crystal Animation - 30 minutes -Animation Flowchart - 1 hour

We held a short group meeting after the briefing to discuss what we wanted to present this week, what we want in the prototype, and who will do what

At least 1 polished enemy encounter type, 1 polished puzzle type, a smaller version of one of the levels, collectable pick ups.

Ben - Enemy animation and level assets Sol - Main character model and assets Sarah - Game Objects Brynn - Music and storyboarding Sean - Code framework Steven - Puzzle designs Tama - AI and combat

I spent most of my time this week modelling the basic enemy type ‘Goblin Grunt’ in maya

which Sol helped rig up but we ran into some issues with the rig and animating it so that will need to be fixed

Will remodel the enemy next week with a new rig

I build some of the basic map assets and tested putting them together

Made the maze assets modular so that we can just put it together any way we need it to go

Archway Test:

Pitfall Test:

Possible layout for the prototype:

Finally I wrote up a plan for the basic grunt’s animations

This helps work out transitions and overlapping animations

Extra charger animation chart

Charger reference

And finally a quick item animation for a collectable item

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Week 8 Work

Summary: -Group Meeting - 2 hours -Enemy Character Modelling - 3 hours -Item Modelling - 1 hour -Level layout design - 1 hour -Presentation help - 2 hours

We used the group meeting to figure out what we needed to present and work out some more details of the game

I spent more time trying to figure out facial modelling to make something better than the Charger model and ended with this face

which I will texture for the game. I also started work on the body using a bigger barrel than the Charger enemy which can be seen in Brynn’s design:

item work:

level layout:

presentation aid included taking screenshots of the models and map concepts and creating a control map: