Welcome to GenScape’s final blog post! We started this week by making a number of last-minute changes and additions that we felt would make our experience the strongest it could be. For game mechanics, this included making the candles into reality checks finally, and having both candles and papers trigger their effects when the player … Read moreWeek 14 [12/5-12/9]
This week was all about collecting a final round of feedback on our feature-complete experience, so that we could tweak it to make it as strong as possible before festival and final presentations. We started off the week Monday morning with a playthrough by our faculty instructor, Ricardo. During his playthrough, Ricardo felt that our … Read moreWeek 13 [11/28-12/2]
This is a short update for a short week, which had just two days of work before leading into Thanksgiving Break. We started the week by doing a full playthrough of our experience with Ricardo, and using this test to identify any fixes and last changes we needed to make. We compiled a list of … Read moreWeek 12 [11/21-11/25]
This week we finished implementing (almost) all of the features of our experience! A big part of reaching this stage was how we managed to finish up work on the lake and cave very early in the week. This let us spend a day or two fully incorporating them into our game’s main scene and … Read moreWeek 11 [11/14-11/18]
This week was all about making up lost time from our struggles the week prior, and the team really came together to make that happen! Making good on our plan from the Friday before, we started this week with a full team meeting in which we laid out all the aspects of our experience, and … Read moreWeek 10 [11/7-11/11]
This week was unfortunately marked by difficulties as the relentless pace of work at the ETC and some bad luck regarding illness caught up with us. However, one of the best things about working on this project is how considerate the team is of each individual team member’s needs. With that in mind, we did … Read moreWeek 9 [10/31-11/4]
We returned from Fall Break this week with a clear and important deadline ahead of us: Playtest Day, which was scheduled for Saturday, October 29. Our goal for the week was to implement new content for the experience that incorporated our feedback from halves, and then use playtest day to test how those changes and … Read moreWeek 8 [10/24-10/28]
This was the week of halves presentations. We created a slide deck that showed how our project had evolved since quarters, which was the last time many of the faculty had seen it. We explained how we decided to narrow our project’s focus to crafting an emotional arc based on feedback we had received at … Read moreWeek 7 [10/10-10/14]
This week was focused on creating and running a second playtest. Unlike our first test, which tested aspects our game mechanics and are art completely separately, this time we wanted to create a single demo … Read moreWeek 6 [10/3-10/7]
Based on our work from last week, we began Week 5 by developing concept art and combining our programming experiments into one combined test scene. Our artists started with key objects and entities from our experience, developing several concepts for our antagonist “shadow figures,” as well as concepts for how our lucidity-extending clocks could fit … Read moreWeek 5 [9/26-9/30]
