Week 3 – 1/4s – Questweavers

Overview

This week was centered around preparing and delivering our 1/4s presentation. Alongside that milestone, we continued narrowing down the project’s design details and began turning the concept into more concrete prototypes. We also received a large amount of faculty feedback on our idea from 1/4s, which helped us see more clearly what needed to be prioritized going forward.

Weekly Focus

Prepare and deliver 1/4s
Continue narrowing down the project’s design details
Start prototyping the core mechanics and map direction

Progress Update

Tech

Continued work on the character controller and mist mechanics
Got mist creation working in prototype form
Improved enemy behavior consistency in the prototype
Added suspicion and detection animations for enemies
Continued identifying problems in enemy detection, clarity, and player readability

Art

Worked on the 1/4s visual references
Worked on logo, poster, half-sheet, and team-photo drafts
Continued shaping the project’s overall visual tone
Continued working on character and environment design references

Sound

Secured Liam as our external sound designer
Briefed on the project and overall direction for sound creation

Design & Prodcution

Continued narrowing the level concept into playable slices
Drafted early map designs and flow ideas
Refined the project framing as a third-person stealth adventure focused on escaping a mist-filled landscape and its supernatural threats
Prepared and delivered 1/4s
Drafted production design materials
Collected faculty feedback on the overall concept and presentation

Notes

Week 3 was the first major checkpoint for the project, and it helped expose both the strengths and the open questions in our idea. The mist concept itself was generally well-received, as well as the very first prototype, showcasing the basic mist/enemy interaction, but a lot of the feedback pointed toward the need to clarify orientation, ability design, camera behavior, enemy readability, and how the mist should actually support stealth and navigation. Though many of the design details were still unfinished and needed to be settled down in the next phase.