Game Reviews

This week was reading week, I mostly used this time to catch up on making my blog posts but I also did some work for the game and met with my tutors for a feedback session. Work of the Week READ MORE

Introduction For making the tiles I had to create multiple sprites of tiles that could interconnect with each other and appear many times without becoming repetitive. They also had to have a certain level of detail that wasn’t too abrasive READ MORE

Introduction In Lament there are four realms and one hub world. Each realm represents a stage of grief as a result they each have distinct aesthetics. For our vertical slice we decided to focus on the depression realm as a READ MORE

Guest Speaker On Monday we had guest speaker Louis Torres Tailfer who is a Unity engineer and programmer. He has experience working on several games including a game called Zellige which was a game set in Islamic era Spain which READ MORE

Playtest This was the week of the playtest. For the most part it went well and the game was functional. Most of the issues were things we already were aware of such as the lack of a pause screen, lack READ MORE

Game User Research This is an academic field of study researching users of games delving into psychology, UI/UX, and ergonomics. The goal is to understand how users comprehend the game mechanics and systems. This can inform design decisions on how READ MORE

Team Work On Monday we had a lesson on teamwork and how one should go about working in a team and what works and what doesn’t work for an individual when it comes to group work. Questions to Consider: Answers:1. READ MORE

Guest Speaker This week’s speaker was Paul MacGillivray who has nearly 20 years of experience in the games industry specifically in production and QA. He outlined to us the roles and responsibilities of a producer in the games industry and READ MORE

Project Brief For this semester we were tasked with creating a vertical slice of a game that we voted on. In this first week I found out what my role was, who my teammates were, and what game I was READ MORE