Advanced Game Studio
53-472/672 | Spring 2019 | Entertainment Technology Center – Carnegie Mellon University
Postmortem and Reflections In our final presentation, we presented a handful of lessons we had learned along with successes, challenges, and even some plans for the future. This post will recap some of them in greater detail. Lessons First, the lessons. Over the course of this project we framed the development process as an exploration …
The final section of our project before we present during finals week can be described by the game development terms of juice, oil, and windex. The idea here is that juice adds all the extra stuff to your game that makes users more immersed and entertained by the game. This can take the form of …
We are in our final push to complete our game. With that in mind we are here to present a relatively short blog post as we continue to advance in our progress. For the most part we are completing some final polishes on various levels of the game. Things we have added to the game …
On April 5th Studio Lighthouse had its most recent Milestone presentation and demo. Understandably, the check-in was a major display of our full concept and improved player mechanics. Some things we were able to demonstrate were the meta game scene, teleportation integration, polished sword fighting and archery, and a functional catapult game.Clearly we had a …
Oh, hey! I didn’t see you there. Please, come in. Done since last post Our efforts since the last post have been concentrated on bringing everything together for a playable demo. We completed the zooming mechanic and combined the archery and swordfighting minigames into a larger scene containing enemies. The player can teleport into a …
Game summary Initially, our design started as two separate concepts: a VR swordfighting game similar to the one in Wii Sports Resort, and a VR castle construction game where the player would build a castle to defend against attacking enemies. A misunderstanding resulted in these two ideas being combined into one, which led us to …