Amenti Big Game Project week 1 & 2
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The Big Game Project course has begun and the game developing is in motion in the groups. The first week has mainly been about planning of the project, like design document, office moving, game design etc. The group that I am a part of is Amenti. The game is about Sofia that explores the pyramids and gets her hand cursed. This hand has some magic properties that the player will discover throughout the play through, like controlling fire and the power to give and take life. My task the first week was to set up a repository server. This included to find the best program, find out how to set it up on a local network, connect with several computers, push and pull from that server, set it up with Unreal and make that work with all the computers. The program that I chose was SVN. The reason being that it was free. When I tried with Perforce, which is also a popular program to use, you could only use it for free for a team of maximum 5 people, we are 7. The reason for not using git was because of the integration in Unreal with SVN which lets you check-out or lock the files that you are working on so that no one else can update that asset if you are already using it. When I followed the Unreal Engine documentation tutorial for setting up SVN as Source Control there was not much problems that interrupted me. Most of the time was allocated to research about which program to use. The tutorial that I used for setting up the SVN repository. I have also used a lot of time on tutorials to learn Unreal Engine as a program and to learn how to use C++ in the engine. There is a lot of basic stuff like how to build up simple rooms and to make pick-up able objects that I have learnt. With this I have been able to help our lead programmer in building the prototype rooms to test the mechanics in them. When all the tutorials are finished I will begin to program the prototypes for taking and giving life to objects in the game I will also help the lead programmer in setting up some coding structures and teach the group how to use the repository the right way for a purely preparatory reason  .  |