Flip a paper prototype to digital in 5 days

To initiate works on the student shoot-em-up game project, and to open a group discussion about development, I prepared a paper prototype to specify movement mechanics and dynamics. Then I asked the team to flip the paper prototype to a digital prototype, using Unity2D and C#. The purpose of the paper prototype was to clarify the basic movement mechanics of the character in 2D Euclid space, whereas the digital prototype was requested to test the current abilities of the team […]

Alpha Presentation

This week our Sprint Planning Meeting was hosted by our Second-Year Project Manager, our Scrum Master. The primary task this week was the Alpha Presentation, the Scrum Master delegated the task of writing and hosting this presentation to me, which we did not object to. I personally felt that it was fair to let me handle this task, since it can for the most part feel like Project Managers aren’t contributing enough with the general project.
I decided to host a […]

Dreams

… are where I belong
Where things i can’t see and the Places I know
I have hidden Myself in the back of a mind
Where the world isn’t disturbed by the presence of Me
Of a mind that is bigger and better than We
Where the streets are all empty and the Shadows are free

Game Design Week 4 – The Making of a Large Monster

I’ve been working on several things during these past weeks, but not all of them are so interesting to read about. So, one of the most fun task I’ve undertaken was to create and draw the large enemy fish that is chasing the player for the duration of the game play. For two sprints I – among other things – made a concept illustration, changed and refined that design, and tuned the colours.
In the planning stage, I made some quick […]

Game Design Week 7 – The Making of a Large Monster

I’ve been working on several things during these past weeks, but not all of them are so interesting to read about. So, one of the most fun task I’ve undertaken was to create and draw the large enemy fish that is chasing the player for the duration of the game play. For two sprints I – among other things – made a concept illustration, changed and refined that design, and tuned the colours.
In the planning stage, I made some quick […]

Enemy Movement Design

In this post I would like to talk about the movement design of our bird enemy.
The bird enemy is the first and the weakest that a player counters. It flies in a covey and moves slow compared to the other enemies. It shoots projectiles when afar, and does an electric attack when closeby. The enemy has different spawn points at the right side of the screen, flying towards the player avatar on the left. It uses all the game field […]

The importance of playtesting

Testing game play in the Unity editor

Recently I realized how important it is to play test your game. I always thought of play testing as a thing a developer has to do every once in a while, but did not take play testing and all of its facets too serious. However, a play testing session that we had at university on Monday proved me wrong.
I didn’t expect  a lot from the play testing. We prepared a […]

Week #2 – Alpha

Compared to my first week I implemented a ton more & learnt twice that.
Player Ship, Health & Aether Bar, and one of our two Enemies
Week #2 – My Activities and Progress
What did I do last Week? 
Last week I created the Player scene as well as the ability to shoot harpoons from the cannon located on the ship,
What have I done this week? 
This week I created two enemies, Player Function Teleport, Updated the Movement of of the Player Ship. Another thing […]

Presentation day for alpha

Today was a somewhat stressful and nervous day for we had our presentation for our alpha.
We have come pretty far with our game compared to some other teams and we are pretty happy about that. But since our programmer had a super busy schedule with all his work i wanted to pick a good day for him where we could meet and plan our presentation well. We ended up picking the day before the presentation to put together our power […]

Blog #2 The Alpha presentation

In this blog post I’m going to cover my process of creating the alpha presentation of our current project – Umibōzu.
Before I opened PowerPoint to begin drafting the presentation, I decided to first go through the Scrum document, which I have mentioned in my previous blog entry. I did this to refresh my memory of what the group has done so far, and what is still ahead of us in the upcoming weeks.
After restoring my memory of the last few […]