So we are contemplating using Google’s Sketchup program to make the smaller content in our game because of the abundance of free models out on the internet that are made in Sketchup. This plugin allows you to take a sketchup model and export it out as a DirectX x File format.
Ok so we had a team building exercise yesterday in our Public speaking class. In this exercise we were given 250 something toothpicks, a bag of small mashmallows, and a bag of big marshmallows. Now what we had to do was build the tallest freestanding structure in twenty minutes. It was a grueling task but we came out victorious(wink wink).
Heres a picture of the winning structure:
And of course Caseys soon to be famous I LOVE RENDERING picture:
So it’s been a couple weeks since i’ve last posted a blog. I have been really busy working on the game that was selected for us to make. Last blog i mentioned we had two games going into an arena, one game gets to leave alive. The two games we had were basically a top down sort of Devil May Cry type of game or a FPS MegaMan set inside of a spooky house. Well the FPS was the game that was in fact chosen, we have further developed this game and the name of it is Ghostly Manor.
So in this game you play as the character named Jim Howler. You just recently died and you are sent to the after life where you end up in Deaths basement for “judgement” essentially. But before Death can judge you, you must make it up to the attic where Death is lounging around, but throughtout his house there are angry spirits who for now want to stop you from getting there. When you defeat these enemies you gain their abilities and a special secondary ability.
We have 5 levels already planned out with 4 boss encounters in the game, we will be busting our butts from now until December to implement all of this. I’ll keep you updated.
So last week i announced we got our groups for our final project. Well after a hard week of designing two game ideas, we actually get to pitch them to our classmates and to our teacher tomorrow. It is going to be a stressful day since one of our ideas is going to be picked and the other is going in the trash.
So very excited and also stressed about tomorrow, but hopefully we give some good presentations and we end up with a game that each one of us will be happy making!
So it’s been a long day, starting off with a lot of laughs mixed with tons of stress, lunch was a subway sandwich while we sat in anticipation wondering who we would be stuck with for the next 5 months. As we returned to school we sat down and slowly were given our groups by Liam Hislop.
I have to say i am extremely happy with the group I ended up with, i really think we can come up with a great game. We already have one solid game idea that everyone seems to like and the other idea we have is coming along really well and we should be ready for our game pitches, where we must give 2 back to back presentations on our game ideas and then our instructors one of them for us to do it on.
Our group:
Casey Flach
Luke DeLaet
Winston Miller
Michael Kofman
and me, Philip Fox
So like I mentioned earlier i am really excited for this group and i can’t wait to get something amazing up on this site.
So at Full Sail the last 5 months of the Game Development Degree program is a final project in which you are teamed up with usually 4-5 other people with the goal of making a finished 3D game. Well tomorrow our groups will be picked and I will make a game with these other programmers for the final 5 months of my life. The groups are randomly chosen so that’s what makes it so stressful I think. But to tell you the truth I’m actually really excited about this, mainly because I am 5 months away from finally graduating.
So wish me luck, I’ll try to document the crazy schenanigans we get into on my blog as much as i can.