Last week i wrote about my work with the gameworld which have been continued this week. Earlier in the week we had our first game testing and got some great feedback from other groups, teachers and older students. Feedback on our color, design and gameplay choices. We realized that all of us working with graphics need to schedule a sit down where we looked over everything we have done so far and together do some last finish work on colour and details. We also felt that we need to put in some more work in our menu. But atleast we have something to start with. Overall it has gone real good, but we see that we have both time and need for some change. So back to this week!
This is one of the more finished new sektors of our game. Also in process at this very moment is both a winter and sahara inspired sektor.
This sector is obviously inspired by the eastern season in Paris. I know, the grass is too Green! At the moment I put in the same houses from the first one, but we have made different houses for each sector. We got a good response for the graphics on the game testing but one of the things several people pointed out was the moon. Too dark, not fitting in the graphics and also our turret, which you can see below, who people thought were boring and not as detailed as the rest of the gameworld. Which I totally buy.
What we also will begin working with next week, when we have most of the basic graphics, is to put in more small animations. For example people moving around between the houses, the destruction of the city bakground as the marketvalue reduces and a colour difference which slowly appears in the world as the marketvalue are getting closer to zero. This will, together with sound, indicate that the player are doing poor and are getting closer to losing the game. I have also collected a lot of sound effects from different libaries and started to pick out possible ones for testing. Our programmers are working super hard with implementing more worlds and the function to switch between them. Gradually we are getting there. Tomorrow, friday, we have a presentation of what we have achieved so far and what are coming next. After trying the other groups first outcast of their games I am really looking forward to try the finished products in a few weeks. I hope and do believe that we will make it.
Til next time, ja mata!
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