This post describes my weekly development in the project. Week 1-3 Planning and preparation for the game project. Week 4 This week, I experimented with the animation methodology that I would use to make my animation assets. Week 5 – 6 Flower asset. Week 7 Bee asset. Due to numerous issues, I was working on …
Submission of the Collaborative Project ‘To Bee’ Game Playthrough Too Bee Playtest 1 – YouTube Too Bee Playthrough 3 T – YouTube Project Portfolio Video Link to Collaborative Project on my Blog: 2.2 Collaborative Unit (arts.ac.uk) Link to Weekly Progress Summary: Collaborative Project – Weekly Progress (arts.ac.uk) Links to Weekly Posts: Week 1 – Collaborative …
Cloth Asset For this asset, I implemented Maya n-cloth. The settings were; low gravity, around 5-7. Wind speed at about 10. Wing noise between 10-30, depending on the n-cloth pre-set. Which was either silk, t-shirt, or burlap sack. I intended to provide many different versions with various wind noise strengths, cloth pre-sets and mesh shapes. …
Within this animation asset, the idea is that many bees will fly out of the beehive after the player’s character activates the area rejuvenation when the collect pollen from the flower. Duplication, duplicate special and exporting the bee rig and animation failed. I am unsure how to complete this and am seeking teacher advise since …
Environment Models As per the previous meeting discussion, I intended to model some more environmental assets. Quick Design Drafts I made very quick and rough drawings so that myself and the team could be on the same mindset about the models I will make. In the drawings above, there is a beehive, broken tree stump …
So far I have mentioned out meeting notes throughout the weekly asset blog posts (the feedback they gave me on my animation assets). However this weeks meeting is a more important one nearing the end of our project, so I made a whole post about it and all that was discussed. The meeting was held …
This week I began on the Bee animation asset. This is one of the most important things I can do in the game, a heavy responsibility and expectation to make sure it looks good. This is the character that the player will be using in the game. Bee Visual References Moodboard – Secondary Reference I …
My Recommendations for the Sound Design This week our group was introduced to some sound designers on Ba courses. These people will collaborate with us to produce sound for our project. Roles: Tim – Music composition. Rafaella and Emmanuel – Sounds and FX. The Plan so Far Tim will make two versions of the composition, …
Summary of your work What is it? An idle video game. The narrative of the game play originates from an hurricane aftermath impacted environment. The player, the Bee, must rejuvenate the the natural environment through collecting and spreading pollen with the other bees. What is its purpose? Stress release. Simple enough game that you do …
This week I want to complete the flower animation asset. Research Through the various sources that I collected, I determined how I may model and arrange the composition of the flower asset. This model is a great reference, however, I do not want it to be this simple. At the least it should have more …
This week I plan to iron out any uncertainties and make experiments in the 3D techniques that will be used in the assets creation stage. By assets I mean each animations that I will complete, I consider each of the as a game/art asset. As I mentioned in last weeks post, I had a discussion …
Changes in the Project Plan Wind Theme We decided on the torrential/ excessive wind natural disaster. The environment will look like the aftermath of a hurricane, and still windy. This will mean that all we have to do to fit the theme is alter the animations accordingly. It will not be necessary to add fires, …
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Project Plan “To Bee” – Game Name Project Members Project Description A 3D simulator-like unity game/experience, focusing on the key role bees play on sustaining nature. Players will traverse an artistic 3D world disrupted by a natural disaster, restoring it to its former beauty via pollination. Genre: Adventure Art, Idle game. Target Audience: Unspecified, mass audience. All …
Personal Notes for the Collaboration Unit Week 1: Intro to the unit and projects Key summary: Level of standards expected Expectations of professionalism Pipeline to be used Peers for feedback Concept development Story development, and idea pitching. Explanation of how to work to the assignment Blog being a constantly updated diary of working with other …
