Week 7
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Week 7 This week we have a an internal deadline for basic features, that is the be included in the Beta. For me this results as working in on the background as always and continuing on the menu. This week I will be focusing on getting the menu completely finished. Not working a lot on the background since it does not need to be perfect for the Beta, and I have a lot of time to polish it after the Beta. What remains to do on the background is adding more details to the buildings. Furthermore a different lighting needs to be added in the village center along with party decorations. Parallax scrolling is the last thing I will add to the background and it will only occur in some areas, where there is depth in the landscape.
My current activity is to animate the fireflies slowly moving around in the picture, disappearing behind some leaves and twinkle. I also want to make the lights from the city twinkle as well as the stars. I want it to look like there is an atmosphere bending the light. I cannot show the animation so far as I don’t know what format to export it in. It will be finished this weekend and presented on next weeks blog post. I have also spoken with Tom about what sounds I want playing during the menu screen. he has found some soft wind blowing in the trees and some cricket sounds which sounds perfect for the kind of mood I want. Also my team wants to have the game play music playing in the background which I agree with. It will be much lower in volume and is to sound like it coming from the village in the distance. There will be also sounds of people cheering and having fun in the distance. The sound in the menu will be calm in contrast from the mexican party music during the game play. The player will have a chance to relax in the menu from the hectic game play. We have also decided that we will have 3 different sounds playing when pressing the menu bottoms. I will record a few cords with my guitar in Spanish style.
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