Design Sprint: 4 Overview During last week’s client meeting, we received a lot of feedback for both the theming and core gameplay mechanics of our game Our main goals for this week: Implement a working prototype with last week’s feedback in time for Tuesday’s external playtest Finalize theming of the world – settling on narrative,…

Design Sprint: 5 Overview During last week’s pilot playtest feedback, we had a lot of observations and feedback from our naive testers about game control, gameplay mechanics, onboarding process, and UI. Our main goals for this week: Implement the first version of the Candy Kingdom environment Increase the number of candies and refine the perceptual…

Design Sprint: 8 Overview Modify the game map to have a central hub area Created the Candy Generation Script Various gameplay updates based on client feedback Candy Generation Script Based on last week’s client meeting, we will be providing Candy generator and categorization scripts, along with the various components to generate the visual stimuli. One…

Design Sprint: 9 Overview Environment details & other updates Adding small gameplay features & platform-specific bug fixing In-Person Meeting with clients Prototype Our prototype for this design sprint and the next one can be found at the link below.  Link: https://moontwist11.itch.io/hai-v51 Password: haihai Programming Updates Trap Implementation Selector can ignore/refuse a house Added a prototype…

Design Sprint: 4 Priority Rank Quarter Feedback  Digital Prototype Iteration Updates Different in-game viewpoints  Selector Bird view More information Explorer Third-person point of view Less informa Allow Explorer to nudge Selector’s agency Each patch has its high/medium/low probability of Bad Opachis Patch color defines its probability, but it’s a hidden pattern Patch color only visible…

Design Sprint: 6 Overview Revamping back on the project after coming back from Fall Break Preparing external assets and materials for Playtest Day Iterating upon the game to support incoming playtesters Our main goals in game development for this week: Provide stronger onboarding and UI indicators for playtesters Making main gameplay changes based on feedback…