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12.05.2025 (Week Eleven) - Day Twenty Two of working on my game

END OF DAY/WEEK REVIEW:

Today was quite a short day for me due to just needing to submit my game off, but I'm happy I managed to get everything all done so I have nothing else to work on for my game.

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12.05.2025 (Week Eleven) - Day Twenty Two of working on my game

Finally getting my game into a Zip file and submitting it all:

After what felt like literally forever I finally got my game to zip. Turns out I just had to go onto a different pc as mine was bugging out and wasn't letting me, so thankfully it wasn't anything wrong with my game.

After this I made sure all the files I zipped were the correct ones before submitting them on my Google Classroom ready for reviewing alongside sending off my Evaluation.

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12.05.2025 (Week Eleven) - Day Twenty Two of working on my game

WEEKLY/DAILY GOALS:

Zip my game files

Submit all my work on Google Classroom

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07.05.2025 (Week Ten) - Day Twenty One of working on my game

END OF DAY/WEEK NOTES:

I'm officially now done with my game and I'm very happy with how it turned out over the whole project.

All I have left to do is try and zip my game on Monday but I'll get to that on the day rather than stress the rest of the weekend about it.

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07.05.2025 (Week Ten) - Day Twenty One of working on my game

Writing my evaluation & zipping my game for my Final Major Project:

After finishing my project all I have left to do is just write my evaluation and zip up all my game.

I started off with writing my evaluation which I finished quite decently quickly which meant I could use the rest of the morning to try and zip my game, but for some reason it wouldn't let me.

I did try the rest of the morning on it but seeming it didn't work and I ran out of time I will try again next Monday instead.

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07.05.2025 (Week Ten) - Day Twenty One of working on my game

DAILY GOALS:

Write my evaluation for my Final Major Project

Zip up all my games files to send off

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06.05.2025 (Week Ten) - Day Twenty of working on my game

END OF DAY NOTES:

Today I got quite a lot done and I'm now fully done with my game. I'm really happy I got things like the head bobbing animation to work alongside my gameplay video all done too.

As for packaging my game and cooking it that got all done too so I'm officially finished with my game. My plans for tomorrow is to just zip my game up alongside everything else and also write my evaluation document for my FMP.

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06.05.2025 (Week Ten) - Day Twenty of working on my game (5/5)

My gameplay video:

After repackaging my game again after adding the head bobbing animation I went onto making my gameplay video. I used OBS to record it and personally played the game myself during the recording.

I did have to put it onto YouTube as it did exceed the 500MB limit here on Tumblr, but the YouTube video works regardless so it doesn't really matter.

I'm really happy with how the game looks within the gameplay video as everything works really well and you can really see the headbobbing animation working within the game too.

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06.05.2025 (Week Ten) - Day Twenty of working on my game (4/5)

Adding a headbobbing animation to my character:

With my game packaged all up I began to do a quick playtest through but was suggested to add a head bobbing animation to my character for their idle, walking and sprint.

As I had time I decided to do that and used the video below as a tutorial.

I followed the code exactly like what's shown within the video and I'm really happy with the outcome of how it looks.

I added screenshots below of the code the headbobbing looks like within the first person character.

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06.05.2025 (Week Ten) - Day Twenty of working on my game (3/5)

Packaging + cooking my game:

After adding finishing touches to my game I went onto packaging my game. As mentioned last week, it wouldn't let me package the game due to a material being named too long but I couldn't find it.

Luckily Jake found it within the actual Unreal Engine files rather in the code somewhere, so it got moved out the Unreal files which fixed the issue which meant I could package it.

After this I packaged it with ease as there was no error messages and it all worked.

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06.05.2025 (Week Ten) - Day Twenty of working on my game (2/5)

Adding finishing touches to my game:

With today I wanted to just focus on finishing up adding any final touches to my game.

I decided to add a piece of paper that hints at what you're meant to do in the game alongside updating the map on telling you where the control room is with also telling you where you currently are.

For the map I just replaced the material on the wall with the new one as they were already the same size so it was just a matter of adding the text onto the pre-existing map design.

With this I'm now done fully with my games development as all I need to now do is package it and playtest it with recording footage of it to upload here.

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06.05.2025 (Week Ten) - Day Twenty of working on my game (1/5)

Ethics of my game:

As mentioned before I haven't yet done my ethics post of my game but I have done some research into my ethics anyways throughout my project.

Due to my game being set in the 1960's and is themed heavily around the USSR and America, I wanted to make sure not to portray them in overtly negative lights. To make sure I didn't do anything ethically wrong I never mention the USSR in any negative way at all to make sure it's not prejudice or anything else.

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06.05.2025 (Week Ten) - Day Twenty of working on my game

WEEKLY GOALS:

Write my evaluation of my game.

Finish up any and all research for my game.

Package my game up.

Add finishing touches (Update map, add goal indicator to game, etc).

Get gameplay footage of my game and upload it as a blog.

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30.04.2025 (Week nine) - Day Nineteen of working on my game

END OF WEEK NOTES:

This weeks been really good in terms of development for my game. With my game being done now I just need to focus on packaging it but that's a next week problem as I've done all I can do for now.

Next week I plan to focus really heavily on my evaluation alongside doing my ethics post for my game as I thought I'd done it, but when looking through my blog I came across the fact I haven't done it yet.

I also next week want to do some more general research into more horror games just to make sure I've covered every base of horror to make more links between my game.

Alongside next week I think I may add at the start of my game a sort of hint on where to go alongside updating my map to say where the control room is to make the objective of the game very clear due to some people playtesting asking what the goal of the game is, so I want to fix that.

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30.04.2025 (Week nine) - Day Nineteen of working on my game

END OF DAY NOTES:

I felt like I got a moderate amount done today, but as it's a Wednesday that means as usual I couldn't get much done due to only being able to work on my game in the morning.

Either way I'm glad I got little details like my aliens visibility and even the sprint button to work in my game.

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30.04.2025 (Week nine) - Day Nineteen of working on my game (4/4)

Trying to package/cook my game:

For the final part of today I began to test cooking and packaging my game to see if there was any errors. Thankfully but very annoyingly the only errors were that some material file names were too long, which sounds like an easy fix until you CAN'T FIND THE ONE MATERIAL!

I spent close to thirty minutes renaming materials and models but yet there are still error messaages.

I did categorise each material to it's own models (Like I have a folder just for the control room models and their colour materials are within that so it's more organised), but I physically cannot find this one material that's stopping me from cooking or packaging my game.

I plan to next week just try to find it, delete it and then begin to package and cook my game then alongside writing my evaluation.

As far as my game goes in my eyes, it's done and needs no other changes.

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30.04.2025 (Week nine) - Day Nineteen of working on my game (3/4)

Adding the sun to my game:

With being in the very final stages of my game I decided to add the sun to my game as it was in my original plan to add a planet/star of some sort to be visible when you're in the game.

I decided on the sun as it looked the coolest out of the ones to do and I made it so it would be positioned only visible in the control room.

To get the glow effect I just multiplied the colour yellow with a glow effect to it a ton until it was really bright to look at. I really like how it looks from the control room as it works really well in contrast to the empty space with stars around it.