Project Blend - Design Document

So as of Friday we have completed and handed in Coursework 1, the Design Document for Project Blend.
It was a really great feeling just having everyone working together to contribute to this massive document. It ended up being  23500 and a bit words!

Personally I'm not sure how much in words... but I contributed mostly to the Story and Narrative section of the document. Re-doing the narrative arc, having a more in depth story summary, talking about how the story had developed etc.
I also as everyone else did, design some of the encounters in the levels. More specifically mine being encounters 4 and 5 in Level 1. We also all did a ton of proof-reading at the end to make sure the document was up to a presentable standard.
Erm... I also collated with Adam in the making of the Research Summary section.
All in all, we've all worked really hard, and I'm really proud of us all.

Project Blend - Encounter Design

Final stretch for the design document now!
This week we all got assigned parts of levels to design. I got encounters 4 and 5 of Level 1, here they are ^^

Encounter 4

                This encounter starts with Master Dragonfruits death. He throws Logan his sword and explains to Logan how to perform a Standard Attack with his final breath.

                A group of fodder appear in front of Logan. He defeats them rather easily and moves forward. By the time he had finished with them however, two more groups have been called over. The higher numbers of fodder offer Logan more of a challenge. Logan can see Helon fleeing in the background

                Logan is now offered a brief respite and moves forward quickly. He is suddenly jumped by a group of fodder. He deals with these fairly quickly despite the surprise and moves forward again.

                He reaches four groups of fodder being funnelled by obstacles, this seems overwhelming at first is made easier by the fact that only one group is faced it a time. It is more of a test of endurance than skill.

                Logan reaches the sink just in time to see Helon disappear down it. He laments by his Masters body for a moment before continuing.  

Encounter 5

This is a short encounter leading to the sink. It starts Logan navigating his way through a small platforming section. He first jumps on to a seasoning cube, and then up to a pepper put that it on its side. He then jumps up onto a rolling pin, which he walks to the top of. He jumps up onto an empty knife block, jumps up the two stages of an empty knife block, crossing it to a pile of cookery books.

                Her he is swarmed with three groups of fodder that he takes out with relative difficulty. He jumps up onto a serial box which he falls through, coming out at the bottom. He fights two more groups of fodder before reaching the sink. Logan see’s fruit from the Bad Kitchen disappearing down the sink hole, and follows. 

Project Blend – Music Presentation

My task this week was to create the presentation for when we meet with the music students on Wednesday, so that Alan can focus on the document itself.
Here it is for now

Project Blend

Although it may change following discussions in tomorrows meeting.

Dissertation Presentation

So I did  a presentation today basically showing I know what I'm doing with my presentation. I was a bit nervous, but think it went pretty well.
Here's a link so you can view the slides online.

Presentation

And here's my notes I used during.

I shall try and expand on these later so they're more similar to what I actually said than just prompts.