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Project Production Journals Week 7

Mia, #5

Tasks Completed

Update background with wallpaper/carpet - ~2hrs
Fix Cat colors/add scolded Animation - ~2hrs
Hatto Particle Trail - .5 hrs
Level One Design Document - ~1hr
Meetings/Organizing Trello/Administrative - ~3hrs

Total Hours: 8.5 Hrs

Positive

Everything went pretty smoothly this week!

Negative

People are still having trouble communicating when their work is completed/completing their assigned work.

Upcoming

Polish, Polish, Polish! Also fix bugs.

Drew, #5

Tasks Completed

Improving fan particle system: 1 hour
Pause menu UI: 1 hour
Git issues: 1 hour
Scripting cat animations: 1 hour
Scripting cat jump: 1 hour
Mirror reflection: 1 hour
Android build: 1 hour

Total Hours: 7

Positive

I got a lot of polish done this week, and we now have a fully playable level! Although some of the animations are still missing/janky (notably on the human), we'll have those in next week. I also got an android build out finally which is great, as well as the pause menu.

Negative

We made a lot of progress everywhere except the human (the most important part of the game!).

Upcoming

QA on various android devices

Focus on polishing human interactions/animations

Rush, #5

Tasks Completed

Roomba finished ~2 hours
Human implemented sans animations ~1.5 hours
Meeting with Drew ~1 hour
General polish/scene edits ~.5 hours
First Level Coded end to end ~1.5 hours

Total Hours: ~6.5 hours

Positive

--Getting the first level essentially done felt great.

--Finishing roomba went smoothly.

Negative

--Literally everyone in the group--and quite possibly Drexel--was sick or is sick this past week. Everyone pushed through and got their work done, but it was tough watching everyone put school before self-care.

Upcoming

--Finish Human animation logic/tree.

--Start level 2.

Lange, #5

Tasks Completed

Team Meeting - 1.5 hours
Designed ¾ view of Human for Nazifa - 1.0. hours
Re-designed Refrigerator asset - 1.5 hours

Total Hours: 4.0 hours

Positive

There were a lot of things on my plate that were on my to-do list, but surprisingly, Tyler got to finishing those assets first, and I'm very glad for that. The assets used in the game are looking pretty nice and the Level 1 space feels populated, but I feel like it can go even further. I also re-designed the refrigerator that was there since the tech demo of the game back in Week 2, and it looks a lot better in the environment now.

Negative

This past week has been pretty unforgiving in terms of the amount of work being assigned to me from other classes. I want to work on bringing the best in this game, but there's never enough time. As a result, I became extremely sleep-deprived and felt too drowsy and exhausted to work on anything extended for this past week. I also said that I wanted to get Hatto's main character art to be finalized, but that got delayed unfortunately.

Upcoming

I want to get the character art for Hatto to be finished and available for use. It's been delayed too many times and for too long now that it's surprising that I haven't finished it yet. Taking another pass at all the art assets and unifying them is also on the radar as everyone is completing assets that may or may not differ from each other in style. There are slight nuances between each that needs to be tidied up. A door asset also needs to be made in order for the house to feel closer to a house and not just a trapped apartment. I also want to try and help the programming team out with our camera issues. Then, I plan to continue developing our brand identity such as re-editing our logo for the game.

As the game grows more developed, the need for concept designs and sketches lessen, so I see myself becoming the one who will implement our assets in the future and make sure everything in the Unity project pans out well.

Nazifa, #5

Tasks Completed

Redraw walking animations and standing up animations into 3 quarters view w/ waiting for Lange's approval - 7.5 hours
Draw a pause button with a background for it - 1 hour
Ideas for Level 2 - 1 hour

Total Hours:

Positive

The walking animations look better than what they did before. Even though I was initially annoyed that I had to redraw all of the animations again, it does look much better. I'm glad I decided to just swallow my pride and just redo them all. I also started drawing up ideas for Level 2 which I had some thought about.

Negative

Because I let James borrow my tablet, I had to cram all of my drawing time to 2 days which resulted in one all nighter which I'm still loopy from but I got it done.

Upcoming

Finish the scared animation (will be sitting down with Lange hopefully to figure out exact how animated he will look and the scolding animation. Even though I wanted to finish the scolding today since it's literally just him bending over and waving his arm, I felt too sleepy to do it.

James, #5

Tasks Completed

Smoothed out hatto's new look: 1 1/2 hours
New idle, movement, and blown away animations: 2 1/2 hours
Sketching new "scaring" animation: 1 hour

Total Hours: 6 hours

Positive

This week Nazifa let me borrow her tablet over the weekend. I really helped smooth out the design and let me understand brushes better. I still haven't got the proficiency that I need with a tablet yet so it still took awhile to do some animation, but it overall felt better drawing with a tablet.

Negative

I didn't get to work with the tablet as much as I needed to. I had a bit of other work on the weekend so I used the time I could spare. I haven't been able to draw a "scary" animation for Hatto that I feel is appropriate for the style of game yet. It is a work in progress, but my ideas are coming a little slow.

Upcoming

This week, is going to be about polishing the existing animation and getting the other animations that need to be in, done. If time permits then flipping the sprite for a left and right facing animation will be the next project of this week as well.

Tyler, #5

Tasks Completed

Asset changes and creation: 6 hours
In-engine changes: 2 hours
Camera size script: 1 hour
On-call meeting: 1 hour

Total Hours:

Positive

I got a lot done with week. I got the designs of everything, but the salt shaker to where the group was happy with them. I was able to help out in-engine implementing things and also was able to make a script that fixes our problem with the relationship between aspect ratio and engine space. I also didn't break anything and set up a back-up system on my desktop so that it's easy to revert scene problems without having to revert everything.

Negative

I don't really love the new roomba design as it doesn't read cute to me. I also spent time working on some assets that took considerably longer than I had planned which was particularly annoying. I wanted to do more filler assets , but I spent the time I would have used on these fixing other assets.

Upcoming

This coming week will be final fixes to assets and some more filler assets. Maybe start planning a second level depending on if the group feels this first level is almost completed. I'll also likely help out with UI because we still need a timer and other pieces like an options menu.

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