Week3 – February 2, 2023

This week we kept working on visualizing our ideas and presented current progress to the client on Tuesday.

Game Design:

  • Finish the game design document of the pet system.

In the pet system, players can interact with the pet and change accessories for the pet. Pets can give feedback to the player through facial expressions and movements. There is a hidden satisfactory level for the pet, if it reaches a certain amount, there will be rewards for the pet.

  • Adjust game design for the room decoration, focus more on the pet system.

Instead of decorating the room for the player themselves, we’re planning to focus more on decorating the room for the pet and interacting with them.

Art:

  • Finish 2 rooms’ concept art.

One is a natural village style, and the other is a room built on the cloud, which shows the possibilities of the preferences of different players.

  • Add a pet’s concept art.

Designed a fantasy creature as the pet for the Chill Room.

  • Made a Diary System Flowchart.

The flowchart shows a prototype of the game experience in the diary system.

  • Finish the icon and the poster/half-sheet for the project.

Programming:

  • Prototype of Diary System. Build the functions of different sections of the diary system.
  • Prototype of Room Building. Enable the change of color of different furniture.
  • Different lighting test. Enable bright/dim and color change of the light.

Production:

  • Build the project website
  • Create a project Metrics

Based on the feedback from our instructor, our client, the meeting with Jesse Schell, and the 1/4 Walkarounds on Friday, we planned to adjust some features for next week.

Challenges:

  • Focus on designing a complete pet system with interactions, rewarding system and other functions.
  • Saving data from diaries in the game.
  • Need many art assets for room decoration and pet’s accessories.

Plan for next week:

  • Do research for coin design.
  • Build a prototype on the pet system.
  • Complete the functions in the diary system.
  • Do research on data saving.
  • Pet-Walk animation in four directions.
  • Change of Diary UI.