Happy Halloween!
Ready for some updates??
After Monday morning's meeting, we have an alpha! There are a few kinks in animations and gameplay, so before the end of class, jobs were distributed to the team. By next Monday, we will have a polished alpha.
Levels
Our alpha currently consists of only FestBuy, which is a tutorial level that will teach the player the controls of the game.
An update from our Level Designers and Programmers:
DerpMart is 80% finished, we're polishing the level by updating textures as our Texture Artists makes fixes. After the design aspect is done, it will be handed over to our Programmers to implement the gameplay.
Shack Depot is our third level and it's when things get difficult! More shoppers, more clutter, and A LOT of chaos! It is also work in progress at the moment.Once the level design team gets everything set up in Unity, the programmers can start implementing gameplay.
Models (Assets and Characters)
We're including some new objects in the latter levels (Shack Depot), more shelvings and other clutter objects, for the level.
Animations
The animation team is working with our outsourced Riggers, to get the animations finalized and updated. There are minor tweaks that needs to be worked on before we can say we're done with our characters.
UI
The main UI is almost ready, the files were just sent over to our programmers, so they can begin the implementation process in-engine. Check our images tab for an inside look of our Main Menu.
What do you think?
Want to see more up-to-date screenshots? Check out our images section. Currently in are videos of our playable characters, doing their wacky stuff, that you will see in game!
On the side note, Beta Testing is around the corner! More information will be posted as we prepare for our Beta. So stay posted and get a chance to beta test for us :).
To conclude this post, we're on schedule with our work thus far, our producer, Jason Green, will have a presentation next week, to show our progress and what we hope to accomplish in the following/remaining 6 weeks!
More updates to come on Monday as we meet again as a team! Thank you all for tuning in and being with us through our development for Black Friday.
