Posted May 31, 2024 by Brody
I started working on this project in December of 2023. Around that time I was thinking that I need to start working on some personal projects so that I can start improving my skills, learn what I like to do in game design, and expand my portfolio. I already had an idea for a game: my own version of Five Nights at Freddy's, but themed around my school and our Computer Science and Game Development department.
There were a lot of challenges I needed to overcome to finish this basic prototype. One of the first things I tried to do was make the camera and animatronic systems. They worked, but I realized that my implementation wouldn't work well with the other things I wanted to try and do. Making the UI system for the task manager and the cameras was a challenge for me, and I'm still not entirely sure I have it all figured out.
I realized as I was going along that I would need to make lots of changes to my game in the future. I intend to keep adding features like better artwork, better sounds, multiple levels, and a story with multiple endings. This prototype is really just the beginning that I want to keep building off of. I hope to eventually find other people who would be willing to help work on this, namely artists and minigame programmers.