Dev Log 8

Dev Log 8 (Nov 6 - Nov 12):

Overall progress:

• Conducted individual playtesting.
  
• Redesigned some levels.
  

Art team:

• Decorated all levels with the assets.
  
• Rendered all the levels.
  
• Polished all the assets.
  

Music team:

• Created new sound effects and replaced old ones (such as footstep SFX).
• Created new level and menu music.
  
• Began conceptualizing a dynamic design for level music.
  

Programming team:

• Fixed known bugs.
• Implemented new assets.
  
• Implemented the AI hint system on all remaining levels.
  
• Refined the controls popups.
  
• Synchronized the animations.
  
• Fixed SFX issues.
  
• Implemented the tutorial level.
• Added an ambience slider.
  
• Added level state information to the UI.
  
• Added controller icon support for Xbox and PlayStation controllers.
  

Challenges:

• Managing merge errors and conflicts.
• There were more merge issues than usual since the art team was decorating levels while the programming team was fixing bugs and implementing improvements.
  
• Implementing the hint system on the remaining levels.
• Most levels came with new edge cases to account for in the hint system.
• Implementing assets.
  • Issues with the assets such as the pivot position in the models being in the corner instead of the center delayed their implementation.

Future plans:

• Polish the final build.
• Polish the itch page.
  
• Create the trailer for the game.
  
• Create dynamically changing level music.
  
• Polish SFX and add new ones as needed.
  
• Fix more bugs.
  
• Address the new feedback gained from our latest round of playtesting.
• Finalise the narrative.