Project Blend - It's been a while

Sorry for the very belated update. Dissertation has overtaken my life.
Anyways, here's what has been happening with Blend.

Before Easter the group decided that due to time constraints we shall only endeavour to get Level 5 to a fully finished, polished state. There is simply not enough time for anything else.

We then all had break over Easter, at Stacy's orders. We needed to stop focus everything on blend, and now get on with Dissertation and Marketing.

On that note during Easter I got my dissertation game finalised and started testing. I am very glad to have been collecting data.

We have all returned from Easter and work on Blend has been going slowly. I am to work with Daryl on an opening cinematic, contextualising the game. I shall also separately implement the Dialogue into the triggers.

Also here is my list of deadlines


9th of May - Marketing
10th of May - Preliminary Dissertation Presentation
12th of May - Dissertation
19th of May - Project Blend
20th of May - Final Dissertation Presentation

D:

... I can do this! xD

Project Blend - Implementing subtitles and slight balancing

Annoyingly because of other work and social reasons, I dropped the ball on blend this week, and did not have a redraft of the Level 2 dialogue done. This was completely my fault and I must make this up to the team.  The silver lining I guess, is that it turns out the dialogue is not needed yet as we are to prioritise level 5.

This week I worked on three things.

• I implemented the Level 5 dialogue into the game through the use of Daryl's text manager.
• I worked on textures.
• I looked at balancing with Ben.

The balancing included playing through the level with Ben and telling him what I thought of the combat, and what I thought could be changed.

Project Blend - balancing and dialogue

So I've been working away on the level 2 dialogue now. I have done a first draft of this which is basically giving what needs to be said. I now need to do a redraft of that including the character voice concepts. Then I will get together with a small group to make it better, before finally doing a final redraft. I will then have to find some people and do some voice acting.

We were also all assigned to look at the latest build of the game, and look at errors. The main errors I found were the pears could walk through things, and sometimes the jump stops working when on ramps. Balancing wise the jump has been changed and now feels alot nicer. There are also a few problems with the gore, as it messes up when it hits corners, and the amount that spawns needs to be balanced.

I shall now go sort out the level 2 dialogue and test toonshading on the character

Project Blend - Voice tasks

So the tasks I assigned last week were for people to give a short examples and descriptions of what the characters sound like. The were 9 tasks in total, which shall be detailed below.

Alan – Helon and Tomato

K – Captain Fennel, Physalis and Pear

Daryl – The Grapevine and Cherries

Adam – Orange and Guava

Sean – Blueberries and Blackberries

Remis – Strawberry

Ben – Logan 

I shall update this later to show who has done this or not. Also when these are all done I shall collate them into a document and post it here.

Project Blend - Texturing

I've pretty much just been texturing since the last post. A few of the things I textured are below:

Awesome spike pit of death!

A generic Pepper pot

A half eaten slice of pizza.

Project Blend - 3D andTextures and stuff

Ok so from last week I have been working hard, helping K out with 3D. I even did one of the first object textures for a can.

No one has actually replied to my forum topic, so i'll either have to get people to talk about it in a physical meeting, or just do it myself... or I guess as a coordinator I could actually assign a character to different people on the team, and make them write some stock dialog for the character and short description of this.

Project Blend - 3D!

Yup so now I shall be on the 3D team, helping K out. Unfortunately I have been a little lax and haven't done any 3D models as of yet. But today I shall start trying my best.
I shall have to refresh my 3D skills though.

I have also started a discussion on the forums so that we can decide what all the characters sound like. This should help me create specifications for our voice actors.