Week 5 – still about our Game Development Workshop…

Seonghyun and Shing here, and we are currently at the fifth week of our course. Building on the goals mentioned last week, we have managed to implement the basis of sound into our games. Although the code will allow us to insert any sort of sound that we will require in our game, to meet the course expectations we will still have to find/record some sounds and modify them – which will be done in the coming weeks, though it is not an immediate concern. Since this code was written wholly new, it is generally unrelated to the current code streamlining problem, which currently still plagues our code. In fact, attempts to fix it have somehow seems to have made it worse, causing the game to run at lightning speeds without any limit, resulting in a game over moments after beginning play.

Another achievement is the development of the trailer, the models and animation produced with Maya which can then be turned into a video file through Adobe Premier Pro. While the sound that will be used in the trailer has not been decided yet, test compilations through sample sounds have already achieved success.

Although both of us are new members to this group this semester, and did not know the full process of how the code was developed, it was quite apparent from the first glance that the main code was very inefficient – even though most of them are organized into sections, the sheer volume of the junk code makes it difficult to find all of them to fix it. As mentioned last week, the process of transitioning into arrays and loops is an ongoing process, though unexpected problems arise from it, and will need to be solved. Although our main focus was on sound and graphics, since both of us are working as programmers for this game, it is one of our main problems that we will need to solve.

All in general, we have made satisfactory progress in some of our critical requirements for the course this week, but the biggest problem that we face is still in progress. That is about the end of this week’s report – the next report will be at next week, as always.

PROJECT OZ

Christian Perera (100343813)

Edward Kwok (100368569)

Joseph Tuffner (100393724)

Seonghyun Lee (100425275)

Shing Hei Yee (100419025)

Yang Zhou (100382767)