Week 19 Off The Map

New week new project! At the beginning of this week we were put into groups and set the Alice off the map project.

Our brief is set within that of the actual competition hosted by Game City in Nottingham:

(Link)

One difference is we have been set our groups by the tutors and we have to submit our projects a little sooner than the deadline for the competition itself.

Our group projects will be submitted under the 3D Category,

I’m very excited for what this project may bring, I have had the good fortune of being put in a group of people that I think I can work very well with.

Here are the links to my team member’s blogs where they will also be documenting progress on the level.         

Sam blog link

Kieran Blog link

Momo Blog link

Josh Blog link

Becky Blog link

We all have a certain preference to areas of work, which seem to work well with each other.

Josh and Sam both would like to develop their character art, Kieran would like to work on environment art and props, and I would also like to work on environment art some time during this project. At the moment some engine work needs doing and I am perfectly happy to put environment art to the side for a while and learn some more about UE4. I really enjoyed exploring all the engine has to offer during the container city project and I’m pretty excited to see what more can be done with it.

Also this week we had a visit from the creator of Sky Saga

(Link to the game)

He came to talk a little bit about the upcoming game, I found his lecture really engaging and I feel it provided me with some interesting insight into the game industry in general. He had a few things to say about the thought process behind some less popular industry tactics. For instance I had no idea that distributing DLC was also used as an incentive to help deliver patches to games before downloading updates was as easy as it is today.

He also talked a bit about the monetisation of the game, which is a touchy subject currently as “feemium” games are coming under fire.

All in all very interesting visit and definitely worthwhile attending.