UAL Game Development
Game Development Log Book
Team: Artisan Bakery Professionals
Student Name: Sebastian Crowhurst
Contents
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Week 1
| WEEK: 1 | DATE: W/C 25/04/2022 |
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| Achievements since last week | This was the first week of the project and we got in to our project teams. We discussed ideas for the project and got some ideas of what we wanted to do. We discussed roles within our teams and potential tasks. |
| What we haven’t managed to achieve since last week | First session so nothing. |
| Target for this week | EG: Decide on our idea for the project and allocate roles within the team. Decide on methods for communication and tools to support the project. |
Daily Diary
| Day | Monday |
| What I achieved yesterday | No work was started yesterday. This was the start of the project |
| What I aim to achieve today | Decide on a concept for our game and start on the project proposal. |
| What do I need to be able to achieve this? | Create a couple of documents and discus with group members ideas for our concept. |
| Day | Tuesday |
| What I achieved yesterday | Decided on a concept and started work on the Project Proposal. |
| What I aim to achieve today | Work more on the project proposal to hopefully finish it today or tomorrow. |
| What do I need to be able to achieve this? | Focus on the rational and how we could evaluate our work. |
| Day | Wednesday |
| What I achieved yesterday | Worked more on the project proposal but had other work for a different project so I was unable to finish it all. |
| What I aim to achieve today | Finish project proposal sections 1, 2 and 3. |
| What do I need to be able to achieve this? | Talk with my group and lecturers to get a better understanding on how to fill out these sections. |
| Day | Thursday |
| What I achieved yesterday | Finished the first 3 sections of the Project Proposal. There was some confusion about sections 4 and 5 so I will have to complete these today ready for Friday. |
| What I aim to achieve today | I aim to add all of my Harvard referencing up to this point into my project proposal. After this I will begin to work on research into level design and dystopian themes. |
| What do I need to be able to achieve this? | I will need to look at the group research document to get all of the links that I have used as they were documented there. |
| Day | Friday |
| What I achieved yesterday | I finished the Harvard Referencing section of the Project proposal yesterday but did not submit the document as I want to look over it before sending it in. |
| What I aim to achieve today | I will look over my project proposal to make sure I did not miss anything, after this I will create the research document that I didn’t get around to making yesterday. |
| What do I need to be able to achieve this? | I will need my finished project proposal as well as create a new word document to start my own research. |
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Week 2
| WEEK: 2 | DATE: W/C 3/5/2021 |
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| Achievements since last week | Last week I completed my project proposal and my part of the shared research document. |
| What we haven’t managed to achieve since last week | There is nothing that we didn’t finish that we set out to complete. We probably could have done more work all together but that was not |
| Target for this week | Start and finish the beginning of our design document. I would also like to begin coding our game this week and create a document with research and |
Daily Diary
| Day | Monday |
| What I achieved yesterday | Yesterday was a Sunday and I did not get up to any work. |
| What I aim to achieve today | Today is a bank holiday so I will not do much work but I will continue to do research at home. |
| What do I need to be able to achieve this? | I will need my research document so that I can continue to add what research I do onto this. |
| Day | Tuesday |
| What I achieved yesterday | Yesterday was a bank holiday so we were not in college to work together. I did not manage to get much work done but I did do a little bit more primary research through playing dystopian games. |
| What I aim to achieve today | Start designing our game. This includes starting to code the game without art and design levels. |
| What do I need to be able to achieve this? | We have chosen team name as a group and independently I have started a document to look into level design. |
| Day | Wednesday |
| What I achieved yesterday | I started a level design document to work on levels for our game. I didn’t do any coding however and probably wont for the rest of this week since Amber is doing well on that and needs me to design levels. |
| What I aim to achieve today | I aim to research at least one game for my document to start it off. Or create a list of games to look at. |
| What do I need to be able to achieve this? | I will need to look into dystopian games and then find a couple that are similar to the design we have decided to go with as a group. |
| Day | Thursday |
| What I achieved yesterday | I ended up creating a list of games to research as well as starting research into the level design of “Katana Zero”. |
| What I aim to achieve today | Finish researching “Katana Zero” and move onto researching one of the “Assassin’s Creed: Chronicles” games. |
| What do I need to be able to achieve this? | I will need to look at videos and on sites like YouTube and Wikipedia for information about the next game I wish to research. |
| Day | Friday |
| What I achieved yesterday | I ended Thursday by finishing my research into Katana Zero and starting my research into Assassin’s Creed. I managed to get a couple of lines about the production and design of these games. |
| What I aim to achieve today | Write about the level design of Assassin’s creed chronicles to finish that game off and then begin to look into a third game. |
| What do I need to be able to achieve this? | I will need my level design document. |
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Week 3
| WEEK: 3 | DATE: W/C 10/5/2021 |
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| Achievements since last week | Last week I started doing my own research into level design. We also decided on what features we want in our game. |
| What we haven’t managed to achieve since last week | I didn’t manage to get much research done into level design and I would have liked to have done more. |
| Target for this week | Finish researching level design and actually draw out some levels for the game. |
Daily Diary
| Day | Monday |
| What I achieved yesterday | I did no work over this weekend. On Friday I managed to finish researching Assassin’s creed for my level design. |
| What I aim to achieve today | Today I will continue from where I left off last week on my level research doc. Amber has also asked me to look into puzzles so I will begin doing that today. This is still level design so I will swap whatever puzzle game I decide on with the third game. |
| What do I need to be able to achieve this? | I will need to ask Amber what type of puzzles she would like to add so that I can look for similar puzzles in games. |
| Day | Tuesday |
| What I achieved yesterday | I started research into the puzzles featured in Among Us. Our game will feature puzzles so I have started to thing about the designs of those. |
| What I aim to achieve today | The level design is still not fully complete so I will continue to plan out this for today. If this is not complete by the end of the day then I will carry on tomorrow. |
| What do I need to be able to achieve this? | I will need to use my level design document and my sketchbook or a drawing software to draw out a design for the stages of our game. |
| Day | Wednesday |
| What I achieved yesterday | Yesterday I was able to draw a stage for our game in my sketchbook. I got caught up with how big the stages where and how many we would need since we originally planned to have one level but due to a change of plans we are now having a couple of levels. I spoke with my team to get an understanding of what would be easier for all of us. |
| What I aim to achieve today | I now know how we want the levels to be laid out so will continue to draw the stages. I hope to finish this today so I can go onto designing puzzles. |
| What do I need to be able to achieve this? | I will have to use my sketchbook to finish drawing the level designs and then use trello to share it with my team. |
| Day | Thursday |
| What I achieved yesterday | Yesterday I finished drawing the level designs for our game and uploaded them on trello for our team to see. |
| What I aim to achieve today | Today I am going to think of designs for easy puzzles that can become features of our game. They need to be well balanced and not too time consuming so I will need to think of some simple ones. |
| What do I need to be able to achieve this? | I will add this work onto my level design document and I will probably have to use a software to draw out puzzle designs to send to my team. |
| Day | Friday |
| What I achieved yesterday | Yesterday I began to brainstorm puzzles and I came up with a few ideas for puzzles that I could code to be in our game. |
| What I aim to achieve today | I will think of more puzzle ideas as I think that I need to pick only a few which would work best so it is a better idea to get a selection of different puzzles. |
| What do I need to be able to achieve this? | I will use the site draw.io and my sketchbook to draw designs for these. |
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Week 4
| WEEK: 4 | DATE: W/C 17/5/2021 |
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| Achievements since last week | I finished researching level design and started to look into puzzles for our game. |
| What we haven’t managed to achieve since last week | I managed to start drawing out puzzles but I didn’t get too many different designs drawn out so I will have to do this at some point this week too. |
| Target for this week | Finish drawing out puzzles and choose some to include in our game. I would also like to code one and send it to Amber to add to the game. |
Daily Diary
| Day | Monday |
| What I achieved yesterday | I did no work over this weekend. On Friday I drew some puzzles but was unable to finish all of the puzzles that I wanted too. |
| What I aim to achieve today | I will finish designing a selection of puzzles and then I will pick a few of them to use in our game. |
| What do I need to be able to achieve this? | I will use my sketchbook and the site draw.io. |
| Day | Tuesday |
| What I achieved yesterday | Yesterday I picked 3 of the puzzles I have designed to add to the game. |
| What I aim to achieve today | Today I will start to code the first puzzle. This puzzle is a maze where the player has to avoid touching the walls or it will restart back to the beginning. |
| What do I need to be able to achieve this? | I will make a new project on Gamemaker and start coding the puzzle today. I am not the strongest coder so this may take a day or two to complete. |
| Day | Tuesday |
| What I achieved yesterday | Yesterday I started coding our first puzzle. For the first day I was able to get the players puzzle piece moving around the area. |
| What I aim to achieve today | Today I aim to code the rest of the puzzle which will walls which send the player to the start when they are triggered and a diamond in the middle of the maze which the player must touch to finish the puzzle. |
| What do I need to be able to achieve this? | I will use old gamemaker work for lessons or old projects like project 1 or our gamemaker tutorials to help me with some code and to save time. Otherwise I will continue on the same gamemaker puzzle project. |
| Day | Wednesday |
| What I achieved yesterday | I was able to finish the base of the puzzle which means that I finished coding the collisions with the player and walls and also the collision with the diamond in the middle which sends you to a new room. Both of these was very simple code so it didn’t take very long. I also did the layout of the first puzzle which is very simple. |
| What I aim to achieve today | Today I will send this code to Amber as she is the main coder of our group and needs to add this puzzle to our game. She has also asked me to design different variations of this puzzle. |
| What do I need to be able to achieve this? | I will use draw.io again to draw out a 3 more variations of this puzzle. |
| Day | Thursday |
| What I achieved yesterday | Yesterday I drew 3 extra versions of the puzzle which I sent to Amber. We then made sure that they are all playable. |
| What I aim to achieve today | Today I will begin coding the next puzzle that I have planned out. This puzzle involves shooting a series of asteroids out of the air to reach 10 score after this the puzzle will be solved. This puzzle will be harder than the first to code but I am confident that I can finish it by the first few days of week 5. However, before I do this I have to add some code onto the first puzzle for doors that can be opened by pressing buttons around the maze (last puzzle in the drawings). |
| What do I need to be able to achieve this? | I will use gamemaker and online tutorials with old work to get the code done quickly. |
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Week 5
| WEEK: 5 | DATE: W/C 24/5/2021 |
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| Achievements since last week | Last week I was able to finish all of the ideas for puzzles and code the first puzzle to send over to Amber. I was also able to create variations to be used in the game. |
| What we haven’t managed to achieve since last week | I would of liked to code a second puzzle but I didn’t have time in the week. |
| Target for this week | This week I want to work on my design document and code another puzzle, I will also start to gather sounds in the background. |
Daily Diary
| Day | Monday |
| What I achieved yesterday | Over the weekend I added a little bit of code to the first puzzle to make more diverse versions of it. |
| What I aim to achieve today | Today I will begin where I left off coding the second puzzle. At the end of this week we have to submit our wordpress websites so during this week I will focus on adding work to that since we still have next week to complete our games. |
| What do I need to be able to achieve this? | I will use gamemaker to code the puzzle. |
| Day | Tuesday |
| What I achieved yesterday | Yesterday I completed most of the code for the second puzzle all I need to do is add score and code which destroys the asteroid objects when you left click on them. The code below I what I achieved, it randomly spawns asteroids for the player to destroy. |
| What I aim to achieve today | Today I will finish this puzzle so I can go onto adding all of my work onto my design document and my wordpress. This will hopefully be finished by the end of the day. |
| What do I need to be able to achieve this? | I will use my gamemaker project again to finish the remaining code. |
| Day | Wednesday |
| What I achieved yesterday | Yesterday I finished adding the score and shooting (left clicking destroys the asteroids). I also added it so the score is show on the screen out of 10. |
| What I aim to achieve today | Today I will start adding work onto my wordpress. I also need to work on my design document to ensure it is finished by Friday. |
| What do I need to be able to achieve this? | I will need to use my design document. |
| Day | Thursday |
| What I achieved yesterday | Yesterday I started adding all of my work onto my wordpress website as well as working more on my design document as I still have a lot to do for it before Friday. |
| What I aim to achieve today | Today I want to publish all of my previous work onto my word press and try and finish my design document. |
| What do I need to be able to achieve this? | I will need to get screenshots of my work as well as all of my research and add it onto my design document. |
| Day | Friday |
| What I achieved yesterday | I managed to get most of the design doc finished before it is due in tonight. I still have some more work to do on it. |
| What I aim to achieve today | Today I am uploading all of the work I have yet to upload to wordpress and then I will finish my design document ready for the half term. |
| What do I need to be able to achieve this? | I will need to use all that we have done this project like trello to add extra parts to my document. |
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