Blogpost Week 2

This week we had a blast!

The game starts to feel like a real fun video game and we created our art bible with the full style of Spank & Splash.

We also finished one of our characters, a particle effect and a prop to showcase our style and see if it will work or not.

--First things first--

Deciding which program is better for our game and our team to work with.

We Chose for UNITY, but why not UNREAL?

- Workflow is completely different then Unity

- A big learning curve for such a small time

- Node based programming is a big change

- The C++ code of unreal is unwieldy, so if we opted for unreal we would use blueprints   anyway

- unreal is less component based than unity

- visually it is much better than unity

- input manager for unreal is quite clear, easy to provide controller support

- it takes longer to implement a playable player

- UI of unreal is less clear than that of unity

- unity is easier to build

--So what did we exactly do this week?--

From what we heard of the last feedback session was to just continue with it and just add “more”, which we did.

We added/finetuned:

• Basic attack (spank) → Pushes player
• Puddles disappear
• Added more impact with the throwables
• On hit with the beachball the player gets stunned
• Worked on our layout of our map
• Finished a character
• Finished an effect
• Finished an asset
• A cart that goes around the map dropping items on hit.

• Finetuned movement
• Throwing objects got finetuned (arc and speed)
• Attack got finetuned
• The slipperyness of our water
• Finetuned spawnen the players
• Added a death counter
• Throwing players just got more fun!

We continued working on our art and deciding which worked best.

--Planning--

What is our plan for the next coming week?

• Start the production of the game
• Continue finetuning EVERYTHING
• Add more to keep it interesting
• Starting to make things pretty
• Adding animations (Attack, movement, ... )
• Adding more effects
• Trying to give more clear feedback for the player when they get hit or die