Magic Writer – Week 6, Final Production Week
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The time is finally here, this will be the last production post I will be making on our groups game “Magic Writer”, because as of next week our game will be completely done. It has been 10 long weeks of production, it has been lots of fun and we all have learned a great deal out of it. But as with all things here in life, it must come to an end. So, without further ado, lets talk about how this week of production has been. As I said last week, this has been a very hectic week since I have been working on several things at the same time. But like I also said last week, nothing a few late nighters can not fix, said and done, I have gotten loads done this week. I finished all the assignments (except sound, hard to find good sound, sadface) that I had for this week. So lets begin with the score screen. This is how it looked like last week. Like I said last week, I was going make a few changes to it so that each plank would not look like its own section, I fixed this by adding a piece of paper to it like on a small wooden bulletin board. And this is how it turned out. It was easily done because all I had to do was make a new layer that would appear above the rest. On a side not, I was not the one that added that line at the bottom of the paper, so I can not really say the reason behind it, but I think it had something to do with that the player would type in their name below it and that the current top 10 or 15, or something, would be above it. Or perhaps it was that the players current position, like position 23 or the like, as a comparison between the top players and the player showing “this is how far away you are from being in the top. But as I said, I am not completely sure. If it is the first alternative, then it is useless as you will see on a later picture, so lets move on. The next picture is just an example picture of how the victory screen would look like when everything is at their place (the programmers want everything on a sprite sheet, separating the board from the buttons). So do not pay to much attention to the score and red box. Don’t know if you noticed but I also snuck in a custom font on the buttons that I wanted to try out to have instead of the one we are currently using (“Wave Cleared” is in the old font for comparison). The new font was liked but due to time restraints I was told to stick to the current font and only implement the new one if I had the time. As for the red box with “picture goes here” text, we decided that we would have a photograph of the magician relaxing on the beach, but it was not decided who would draw that picture by the time this one was done. So it was decided that I would be the one to draw it so that the style would match the board. That is part of this weeks assignment, but heck, I can show you what it looks like at the moment. It is not completely done but not far from it. Ok, back on track, this is how the victory screen will look like. The only thing missing is the picture, which will be added once it is done. The last thing that I had to do for this week was the defeat screen. To save myself some time I reused everything except for one button (only needed one). But to make the defeat screen different from the victory screen i turned it 180 degrees and drew that in perspective so that you can see below it to make it a bit more three dimensional. I centered the “Menu” button now that it was alone and drew a new “Enter” button to have on the total score paper for when the player types in their name and wants to upload it. And just as the “Victory Screen” above, this one will also have a picture on it, but unlike the other picture, on this one the magician will be standing on his/her knees and elbows in a defeated manner in front of a broken sun chair. Lovely, isn’t it. Can’t say more than that I haven’t really started on it yet except that this is how it looked when I presented it along with other alternative pictures. And as a bonus treat I will upload how the victory picture looked like when it was at the same stage. That it for this blog series. Thanks for following me and my team on our game design project “Magic Writer”. Hope to see you for our next project as well, cya.  |
