This week the project really started to come together. We built a mini level that has a bit of everything in it and we have the player run through each of the sections in order to experience some of the unique features and mechanics we’ve implemented so far. I spent most of my time…
This week I built the save/load system, camera shake, corrected/smoothed the camera movement and started play testing / searching for bugs. The save system uses checkpoints and saves the level, characters position and any skills that they’ve unlocked. This is a pretty simple system that allows players to continue where they left off or…
2 weeks in now! (okay a little more, I’m late posting this update) The 2nd week of development went by lightning quick. It was a straight out 60+ hour dev-fest for myself and I think a majority of my team-mates put in just as much work. We added a ton of new features and…
It’s been 1 week since our team has started building out the features for the game. We spent well over 200 hours between the 6 of us this week alone on only about half of our total features. Here’s what we completed this past week: Dual character basic movement controls Carry-able blocks Drag-able blocks Doors…
This is where the magic of design iteration happens, right here in the GDD. If you haven’t seen the pitch video yet you should. After watching it come take a look at this document and you’ll see how much our ideas have evolved and how everything we’ve designed has come directly from the core…
Here’s some character concept art created by Matthew Sahakian.
A few months ago, as part of the Game Design degree program at Full Sail University, we were asked to create a pitch for a game that we would be creating during the capstone project during the last 5 months of school. These pitches went through a green-light process conducted by a panel of…