Soft openings this week gave us the oppurtunity to share our work with faculty and to receive some professional feedback on what we could improve during the last two weeks. After 5 rounds of walk through, below are the main points that got brought up: Need to replace mobile phone Read more…
In the last week before soft openings, our focus is mainly on polishing visuals. In order to match the theme in the base game with minigame experience, our artist updated the monkey model to make him more acustomed to the environment – now he has an astronaunt suit! We also Read more…
Robot fight is a single player game in which players can customize their own robots and power them to eliminate enemy in different levels by pedaling. Design After we built the idle game, we took a step back and recalled our target audience demographic. In Keirsey Temperaments, the players that Read more…
Pedalr is a single player idle game in which players use pedalling to generate resources and develope their own “planets”. Design pillars & constraints After building our first prototype, we took some time for consideration over players’ need and barriers – we not only want to know the motivation for Read more…
Unicycle adventure is a single player game in which players need to shake their phones or use bike pedals to move forward and stay at certain point within required time limit. In this prototype, the pedal will go forward as player continues pedalling, and will stop when player stops pedalling. Read more…
This week our main focus is on polishing the minigame experience. We designed two different environment as we will have different music styles matching these themes. Now player will be moving forward if continue pedalling. Below is the demo video for new environment setting: We also tried generating the notes Read more…
On week 11, we were excited and honored to have 7 playtesters to come to our project room and playtest the two prototypes we have been working on! Each playtester had 3-5 minutes on each prototype, followed by an interview. Surprisingly we even had a playtester who has been developing Read more…
We kicked off this week by starting a internal gam jam-since we introduced upper body movements like clapping in this rhythm game prototype, we would like to furthur explore the possibility of adding more sense of mastery in it. By Weduesday, each of us presented our idea on how to Read more…
For this week, our main focus is on the 4th rhythm game prototype. After we discussed some possible solutions with ETC tech faculty Dave Purta, we ended up with the magnetic solution, and it really impressed us with barely noticable latency. Below is the demo video: In this prototype, the Read more…
During this week, one issue that we are trying to solve is the latency from the cadence sensors. As the playtesting video below shows, it takes a while for the sensor to react once the cadence changes significantly: One posssible solution is to use phidget magnetic sensors, which requires one Read more…