28/04/2025
Week 10 is here and this was the first week back from Easter break, which means second semester is coming to a close. This week will be dedicated to wrapping up any missing pieces that we still want to add to our game. Towards the end of the Easter break I had a discussion with Paula about the evil cafe as we agreed we needed to talk to one another about what the plans were in terms of making sure the character and environment were cohesive. We came to the conclusion as a group to go with the initial evil cafe that I had sent over a while ago as we all felt like it would be easier to go down that route.
The development of the evil cafe can be found here: https://year2.wsagames.com/is3g23/%e2%8b%86evil-mermaid-cafe-iteration-1%e2%8b%86/
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1/05/2025
Due to personal circumstances I wasn’t able to attend the Thursday lesson however Sophie was kind enough to forward over the blackboard slides which I was then able to look over to get a general idea of what would be covered during that lesson.
During the session with Sophie they talked about the next week’s game showcase! Which I can’t believe is already here. When going through the slides there were instructions to prepare builds of our games and what ways we could advertise them. It was later shared to our group Discord that we were going to have cute chibi Violet stickers which were going to be designed by Paula! She later mentioned how she wanted to do chibi’s for all the characters which will be super cute to be able to hand out.
Later in the session, they went on to talk about our games post deadline and what our next steps might be. We learnt about the differences between publishing on Steam and publishing on Itch.
Towards the end of the session there was the reminder of the importance of a good portfolio within the industry and what tools/techniques would be useful when creating our own portfolios. There was also mention of potential awards our games could be awarded with and then some ideas in order to prepare a press kit in case we would like to advertise ourselves.
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For week 11, I’ll be focusing on getting ready for the main playtest that we will be having on the 8th! Super excited to be able to showcase our game as the whole team has worked really hard to produce a game I think people will enjoy.
Week 11’s Blog: https://year2.wsagames.com/is3g23/⋆week-11-public-event-playtest-pt-3⋆/
Playtest group blog: https://year2.wsagames.com/violetsdates/playtesting-sessions/