This is the week of soft opening. Before soft opening, we wrapped up our project, added as many features as possible, and polished the UI and art assets. Angela added different materials to chassis in different categories – blue for jumping cars, red for turning cars and brown for the combination. Also, she made the Read more about Week 15 Newsletter[…]
One week from soft opening! We are on even tighter schedules. On Monday, our advisers pointed out that the turning test tracks we designed in the previous week have more left turns than right turns, which may cause the lack of balance. Therefore, Feiran and Angela designed new turning and combination test tracks as well Read more about Week 14 Newsletter[…]
Since there are only weeks to soft openings, we were on a very tight schedule this week. (The title on the board is incorrect, which should be week 13) Since we narrowed down the scope to only three test and mission tracks, Feiran and Angela mainly worked on track assets. Angela did research in how Read more about Week 13 Newsletter[…]
Early this week, we finished modeling seven test tracks – acceleration (a), turning (t), jumping(j), a+t, a+j, t+j, a+t+j, and the turning track for turning. We wrapped up a new demo with all the tracks before the client meeting on Wednesday. The new demo includes the features that one can select a chassis model, select Read more about Week 12 Newsletter[…]
This week is mainly about our half presentation. We presented to our adviser Carl and Heather on Monday and Tuesday and made changes afterwards regarding the feedback from them. On Wednesday, many guests attended the presentation. Angela introduced the background stories, goals, challenges, and metrics of our project, Feiran talked about brainstorming, Eric explained our game Read more about Week 11 Newsletter[…]
During this week, we deeply talked about the customization design. In the flow of the game, when a player finishes a test, he can choose to customize the car if he is not satisfied with the performance. Ideally, we can let players customize the car to however they want, then send the configuration file to Read more about Week 8 Newsletter (including Week 9 & 10)[…]
During this week, we figured out our project metrics at first. Our advisers helped us clear out the measurement of success. For instance, we should pay extra attention to innovation, prototyping and gameplay/interactivity, but less attention to art style or audio. The metrics not only gives faculty members in Pittsburgh a standard to evaluate our Read more about Week 6 Newsletter[…]
Since last week, we had several meetings with Dreamcatcher team, Bandito Brothers and Emotive team, we had more clear ideas about this project. Then, we decided to have the step one. Regardless of the actual game design and game play, we have to complete the game->Dreamcatcher->game cycle. Therefore, we will have to build the data Read more about Week 4 Newsletter[…]
The main job for this week was to do research in many areas. Since we have no idea about Dreamcatcher, Stingray, and chassis design, each of us chose a field and started working. Eric and Aiden were responsible for doing research on the gameplay side of Stingray, Angela took charge of the artist side of Read more about Week 2 Newsletter[…]
Project&Client Overview In the first week of this semester, everything started with the client meeting at Autodesk in San Francisco on January 13th. The goal of the meeting was getting to know (1) our contact, (2) the project, and (3) the technology. In the following section, we will introduce them one by one in the Read more about Week 1 Newsletter[…]