Wednesday, October 3, 2012

This week I began working on creating filler art assets with Tyler for our programmers to implement into the white box of our level for testing purposes. I performed an image search online for some references of a mansion foyer and focused on one that consisted of wooden panel walls and arches. I designed a door based on these reference images that could potentially modify it to utilize it as the walls. After completing the door, I felt that it was far too small and did not have enough pixels to design it well and scraped the image. Working with higher resolution I redesigned the door, adding overlay effects to create texture on the door as well as using a custom brushes to add a unique engraving. These initial art assets were intend only as filler art and, I hate to admit, regardless of that, Tyler and myself became a little too involved in designing these assets and were not able to finish this particular story. Aside from that the team spent remainder of the week preparing for our first iteration demo for the other game design students on campus. Maria built the presentation in prezi and did an amazing job on that, in which we all contributed pieces. With the prezi presentation completed we spent the next meeting practicing the demo making changes and giving each other advice on how to improve. Today, after letting the other team go first as to allow a late member to arrive, we presented our iteration at noon and it went better than our practice runs. As for problems we've encountered this week, there were a few minor and one major issue the team faced. The first minor issue was that only a few members have been using svn to save their work, which causes problems for team members as they don't have access to it. The other issue was that the team was becoming too specialized in areas such as programming or narrative meaning that if one member was gone, others would not be able to continue on that area. . I talked with a few of the members today, and will be putting up stories on trello to help resolve the issue. The major issue was the attendance of one particular member and its getting out of our control. We asked for the professors for advice and possible intervention.

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