Monday, 9 July 2007

Its a feature !


First thing today we had a small art meeting to discuss one or two things that came up during the weekend and make sure we were all happy with what needs doing over the week ahead.

With the internal showing in 2 weeks we want to get as closed to finished quality as possible so that we can get a bit more focused feedback from the guys attending.

So today we've had some really good progress and some not ... so ... good progress. Rich managed to implement our heart wipe with some Virtools wizardry. We now have an awesome Looney Tunes style effect to make the transition between play and cut scene a bit smoother. On the other side of the code fence Rowen has been banging his head all day trying to solve a problem with animating female NPC's. For some reason auto aiming on them as they get nudged is propelling the player character into the sky - the auto aim is a bit problematic due to the speed and drop on an arrow, but fingers crossed we'll be able to keep it in as we think its important to make the game as accessible to everyone as possible.

Art wise were making up for lost time of last week. Dave has almost finished all the building textures and today we took delivery of our player characters bow so with any luck Ross will have finished all the major modeling by tomorrow.

In the sound department, I began replacing place holder sounds with ones that we can use in the actual game. Since our game is quite focused on visual comedy it is important to compliment this with the sound. Up until this point it was a case of finding appropriate sounds of a similar nature and right duration, but now we can see more of the world and its style its definitely helping focus the sound direction. Going to do some research into how its handled in other media to make sure were on the right track.

We also had another visit from our friendly neighborhood camera man. Ross was soo close to keeping a lid on it but Piers seems to know how get him going - this week it was MGS and GH (Ross your wrong ^^) and got the chance to check out the diaries form last week over on the dare site. Its always nice to see that it doesn't turn out as hideous as i expect it to be. We also had a visit from some of the guys on the potter team who were interested to see what we've been up to and started a bit of a chat with the guys over on zerO.One (Hi Guys!) who sound like they're having an awesome time. So yeah pretty good day all in all and fingers crossed it'll be plain sailing for the next fortnight (:S ! :D)

Lucid Dream Team

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