Week7 – March 3, 2023

This week we made our build of the game ready for playtest and presented our progress on the half presentation. Programmers made preparations for publishing the build onto website, a domain provided by ETC computing support team; artists are still working on creating more furniture assets.

Programming:

  • Implemented metrics to get data from playtesters.
  • Tested save & load function on web build.
  • Prepared for WebGL build for playtest.

Art:

  • Finished the art of 5 pieces of furniture.
  • Finished UI icons which are needed to be implemented into the game.
  • Created the half video.

Production:

  • Drafted a playtest plan, prepared a survey for playtesters, and get ready for the playtest.
  • Contacted client about scheduling the time for playtest.
  • Contacted the client for kindness act list.
  • Finished weekly blog posting.

Sound:

  • Keep track of contacts with the music composers.

Challenge:

  • Need to collect feedback from the playtesters.
  • Need to make sure build has no bugs affecting gameplay, since the week players playtesting it is spring break and programmers are on break.

Plan for next week:

  • Keep working on art assets for the game.
  • Prepare for the playtest.