Week 3 – Game Development Workshop continued...

                Edward and Yang here, and it has been a very busy week, due to the overwhelming amount of homework we received from multiple classes. We just had our second game development workshop class, and Dr. Finney gave our programmers some new ideas and some code to help them to program the sound and audio portion of our game. It was truly a productive work period as our programmers now know how to work on our sound and audio programming. 

                Unfortunately, during our game development workshop period, we had an argument between several of our members, where our lead designer wanted to change many aspects of our game as well as the game play. He wanted to change our entire game code to include only arrays, which will require a fair bit of work and time in order to do so. He also wanted us to change the models completely, rendering our old models from last semester useless. This caused quite some trouble, and in the end, we all agreed that the modellers would only fix and change the old models up a bit, depending on how much free time we have for the semester.

                We also discussed more things to add to our game, time permitting, such as adding a boss fight to the game, in order to make it more interesting. We also wanted to add things like a menu, a HUD, and especially textures. The programmers will make good use of Dr. Hogue’s labs and lectures for the course computer graphics 2, in order to learn how to apply textures and shaders to our game, which will make it much more visually appealing. The sound and audio portion of our game didn’t seem to worry our group members as much, so it looks like the majority of the semester will be focused on our other course requirements.

   That’s all for this week, stay tuned for more updates from team Project Oz :)

PROJECT OZ

Christian Perera (100343813)

Edward Kwok (100368569)

Joseph Tuffner (100393724)
Seonghyun Lee (100425275)
Shing Hei Yee (100419025)

Yang Zhou (100382767)