This week, Unreality has teleported seven days closer to the deadline. My work revolved around the park office, the final boss, street signs, and some overall design decisions. I completed my duties for the patrol area of the map scene, creating a park office. I used many different free prefabs from the Unity Asset Store, starting with a rectangular shell of a building and using a plethora of props to decorate the interior and make a fitting park office. I also did some work on the final boss. We made a decision as a team on how the boss fight would work: go into one particular abandoned-looking cabin (which I created this week!) and find the Wendigo boss inside, fighting it to win the game and roll the credits. My creation of the 'Wendigo Hut' was an interesting challenge, as I made sure to make it very abandoned and force the player to both wander around the hut and go in one particular way. This week included a street sign bonanza as well. I created a wooden signpost and some speed limit sign 3D models in 3DS Max. By working with the writer and a 2D artist for signs that match the game's needs and feel as well as sign textures. Now, we can include many scene-appropriate street signs in Unreality. I made some overall design decisions this week, too. Our team is simplifying Unreality, officially reducing the UI, item, and combat system. However, we are still looking forward to a playable prototype coming next week and a successful completed game. From L to R: Before and after Staff Office, speed limit sign design, and Wendigo Hut
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The cabins are done. It's crazy, yes, but it's true. This week, I finished all of the cabin prefabs required to complete the cabin area of the campground scene. Through using free premade assets from the Unity Asset Store along with a few objects made by me, I was able to decorate interiors and create custom prefabs. I then exported these as prefab files to a Google Drive folder, where our group's programmer designed the actual cabin area of the final game scene. Some problems I encountered this week occurred with exporting assets. It was difficult to make sure all the right files - especially meta files - and prefabs were exported properly. The previous week, I exported my entire Unity scene to give the programmer one cabin prefab, but I wisely decided to only do prefab files this week. Additionally, I got another Easter egg done - fitting for the week before Easter. This time, it's a reference to another group's game. Mountain Heart, an audacious game with a hardworking team behind it (check them out here!), will be referenced in Unreality through a cassette tape model. After I figured out how to spell 'cassette,' I used an image from the Mountain Heart group as a reference and a texture for creating a 3D model in 3DS Max. This week, I'm hoping to continue my work on different areas of the campground. I'd like to finish the staff housing area. Next week, I want our team to focus on combat mechanics and UI, so I'd be down to work with them on that as well. I might make some street sign 3D models also. Everything's going pretty smoothly so far and I hope we can continue our work well next week. Cabin models and cassette tape Easter egg
Week six of Unreality has concluded, and we've done our duty towards making a video game. This week, I mostly worked on making parts of our final scene, such as making cabins. I took my Modular House remake from the last check in and added glass to the windows to touch up the exterior. Inside, I added walls and rooms: a dining room at the entrance, a living room, and a bedroom. Using free prefabs from the Unity Asset store and 3D models that I made myself, I detailed the inside of the cabin. A 2D artist helped me out by making a floor/wall texture and I communicated with the team writer to ensure everything I was doing lined up with the overall vision for the game. My work this week fit in to the entire team's work through improving the game environment. Working with the programmer to export prefabs into our finished game scene, working with 2D artists to ensure flashbacks fit with the environment, and working with the writer to create cabins that stay true to Unreality's vision were the methods in which I cooperated with my team. As the team leader, I also did some other things. We decided how we would animate flashbacks: the same artist would animate everything to make sure the timing would be consistent. I attempted to organize our team a little more as well. This week, I had some issues, though. It was difficult to export the cabin prefab as an fbx, as the programmer would have to reapply textures to every single asset in the cabin. Instead, I used export package to export all the assets in my scene, upload them to Google Drive, and have the programmer put the prefab in his scene. Next week, I hope to continue my work on cabin interiors and finish the cabin area for our game. I can't wait to create a playable version of Unreality - hopefully within a week or two. Interior and exterior of a finished cabin
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