May 27 Meeting

May 19 2013 - Meeting

Meeting from May 19 2013

Bingjie, Justin, Alex, Kirk, Daniel

Kirk's cave model is in-game
Will need a ceiling.

Dan's 2D Animations
-After Effect's Puppet Pin Tool

-First four cinematics
-Scene 1 -Dispora
-Scene 2 - Desert
-Scene 3 - Forest Collecting
-Scene 4 - Hunting

Justin
-bug fixing
-beast aggression display
-population display

Bingjie - camera swapping?

Alex - Water effects?

5/8/13 Meeting Notes

Meeting - May 8, 2013

Full Attendance

• New Web Build
• Issues:
• How to convey what can be done in a scene?
• How does player know how they're doing?
• Will the 2D/3D feel good?

We had a lot of progress today!

1. We came up with a quick solution to telling users during scenes how much stuff they have left to do. 
• In the background of every scene, there will be a mountain with three sections on it.
• This mountain's thee sections are (1) the village, (2) a first set of collectibles and (3) a second set of collectibles.
• Both sets of collectibles have two options: collect berries or hunt game
• for every 3 berries, only 1 game is required.
• However, hunting game may negatively impact the predator aggression meter
2. We sorted out the programming requirements for making the mountainside happen.
3. We assigned programming tasks to Bingjie and Sanjay
• Sanjay: Work on the respawn system and figure out how to make it work.
• Bingjie: Work on the bug with projectile shooting as well as put finishing touches on the start menu. 
4. We assigned some art tasks to Dan
• Generate some sample assets for the mountain side
• Work on overall scene level art and cutscene design
  

May 1 Meeting

Attendees: Dan, Justin, Bingjie, Alex, Kirk

Discussion Points:

• Finalized Inventory Measurements
• Predator Aggression [1 - 100]
• Village People  [1 - 100]
• Sticks  [1 - 100]
• Berries  [1 - 100]
• Meat  [1 - 100]
• Presence of Fire [Boolean]
• Created Village [Boolean]
• Found Forest [Boolean]
• Problem Points
• Player Feedback / Communicating Internal Parameters
• Proposed Solution:  central column that has repository representation of player stats.
• Not much carry-over between 2D and 3D Worlds
• Proposed Solution: Beast in shadows that (1) limits progression and (2) changes in behavior based on player's choices in scenes
• Baby's role is unclear
• Proposed Solution: 
• Make it a rare spawn in (1) 2D scenes AND (2) baby eyes in 3D shadow.
• Audio cues?
• Environmental Markings?
• Baby tracks in 2D.
• Keep in mind DIFFERENT SHADES of endings
• final painting, not beast behavior
• Domestication evolution idea - creature should have a form of evolution as well.
• Level Design Talking Points

For Next Week:

• Playable Demo
• Setup Survey [Web Build]
• Consistent Web-Build