Project Romantic Pencil

The ending of our introduction to game analysis and game design course is coming up really fast now. The assignment is to design and pitch a space shoot ’em up game inspired by two randomly selected words. Our words are romantic and pencil, which seemed really difficult at first but I think we have been able to take those words and create something that is new and different.I have been chosen from my team along with another team member to […]

The assignment: the Presentation

I was chosen from my group to go up in front of the rest of the class and show my PowerPoint-presentation. It made me really nervous and I felt my mind go blank and I did not know what to say. I had made my presentation so that it would speak for itself as I did not want to break the mood created by the music and pictures by spekaing.It went rather well I feel, thinking about how I felt […]

Game design loner

The game is in it’s last phase.Everyone in the group is leaving for GAMEX, except me, and i actually saw this as a bad thing. But today when I was working on the game, I kind of felt that it was the first day of work with pure design. Or maybe it is just the part I like the most.During previous meetings we have been concepting about things that can happen.
Right now I’m mostly just analysing the game so that […]

Work work.. (peon voice)

During the play-testing session last Thursday only one group had time to test our game, the reason for that is because it takes longer time to play it with un-experienced players, as it always does. Usually it takes about 45min when we are play-testing in our group but this time took about 1h 30min and the game-testing session was only two hours. While another group was playing our game I walked around in the classroom and tested four different games, […]

Group work – update 2

Been working on the paper prototype with one of my group mates.
We seem to have gotten the core experience down on it. Now we need to test the prototype to make it stronger.
Hopefully we can do enough of that tomorrow and move on to finish up our pitch for a feedback meeting on Friday this week.

Group work – update

So I’ve not been updating this since I’ve been busy with various things and last week I was sick to boot. Seems like the game project isn’t going very well, I was supposed to get feedback for our prototype today but I was not given a finished prototype to bring to the meeting, instead I had to make one on my own over a few hours, that didn’t work.
Seems like the group dynamic is quite bad, we probably need to […]

Board Game Progress Report (Advanced Game Design) – 20131029

Today, we had our teacher for the course (Adam Mayes) play our game and give feedback on it in it’s current state.
Initially, he was skeptical to as of how the monster’s hidden movement was going to work in practice. However, after playing the game, he liked the game as it was. He got to play as the monster and the game was very tight overall to the very last. Although he thought that we could keep iterate on what we […]

The latest version

Today we had yet another playtesting session. We got some critique on several of our systems that made us consider if we should change it. However, when playing with Adam he told us that it was a great game that he enjoyed a lot and we sholdn’t change much of anything.
We’ve decided that we still need to change the board a bit, and maybe consider adding another element. But it feels pretty solid at this point, so we’ll mostly polish […]

Balancing Balancing and more Balancing.

Last day we had yet another balancing session, we were about half the group since the other half had other classes to attend. The goal of yesterdays sesion was to make the Wizard even stronger in the begining of the game and also try a new trap mechanic.

So inseed of doing an aditional 10+ saving throw for each trap and take two damage for each failed test, we tested and stuck with that you allways only take two damage no […]

Thursday QA

So the goal of this week was to balance the game as much as possible which i described in the previous post. This post will focus on the QA session we had this Thursday.
This thursday I pulled together the entire class and everyone tested at least one other game in the class. Since our game takes 45min – 1h 30min to play depending on the players experience only one group had time to test our game. It took the testers […]

play testing with Adam

before lunch we got our appointment with Adam. This is what it looks like:

CoBots Launch Trailer

Today is the release of our game CoBots!!
We made this game last spring as a school project and since it got such great feedback, we decided to release it. We’ve been polishing the game this autumn and now it’s finally available at Desura and on our site!
This is the first game I’ve ever released and none of the graphic students in my group had worked with 3D before, so I’m very proud of us for making it this far. OwO
If […]