Reflection Diary #1
For my first week on the final major project I have been planning out and deciding what I am doing for the project. I have been given a time of when I set my game and decide what its about in the time period of the 900bc to 900ad. I have chosen to do the time period of king Arthur of the 5th to the 9th century and maybe making it a bit of a mythical game especially since we do not know whether Arthur was real or not. I have come to a conclusion that I will make a short story game were I focus more on the 3d modelling than focus on the programming as I feel that is were my strengths lie more at.
I have done my proposal for my game document and have been planning out the story and doing the research. What I find tricky about researching of everything that happened in that time is the lots of events of the time was not documented or was lost through time as people did not know how to read. However I have found the facts what I need to set up and make the game what I have in mind and will continue to do some more research and planning in the next week to make sure that my game is realistic enough and meets the criteria as to what is needed for my game.
I have been working on my short story for my game and so far I have found it simple enough to do but the hardest thing about it is knowing how much of the story I can add in as I am not sure as to how much I can add with the time I have to complete the project so I have been planning it out and doing my best to make sure I plan my time wisely with when and how long I do something so I do not end up rushing on my project later on.
Reflection Diary #2
For my second week on the final major project I have been finishing the planning and the decisions in what I am doing for the project. I have finished the research for king Arthur but since he is a myth and that many things about him people disagree on I will make my own version of him as close as I can to his mythical character. I have also finished my research on more of the context of the time knowing what other historical people were there during that time such as the Saxons and the Angles. Again the same problem I had as last week was that during the time period of what I researched many events were not documented for various reasons so it was not as easy to find solid facts to roomer’s of what people thought what happened then.
I have done some rough sketches to plan out were each of my models will go as I am focusing more on the 3d modelling. I have also gotten a bit of feedback about my design for my game from a couple of people who I know, they thought that my game design was well planned out and that it was a good idea of what I was doing.
Reflection Diary #3
For my third week of the final major project I have been starting to be working on doing some of my assets. For my assets I have been working on My first two 3d models and my main menu design look for my game. I have made the main menu to the theme of king Arthur as I have him at the centre of the image with his name as the title, for my models I have been working on making a hut and a small mountain for the baily of my motte an baily outpost design. I have been doing this to test my self to see how fast I can make the models to I can predict how long the rest of the project is going to be to plan out my time wisely.
Reflection Diary #4
This week in my FMP I have been continuing the designing and modelling for my project of my games assets. I have sketched out drawings on my designs and have been making them come to life in 3ds max as I have been modelling out the looks of the assets with specifically editable poly, I have been making and additional small hill for my mote and baily outpost design and I have been making the fences, the spiked walls and other small models in my game. I have continued to use the textures from textures.com and have been mapping out and using the spot healing brush tool to make the textures blend well with a small 3d look to them to make it seem more real to a first person perspective.
I have not been finding any major errors to the project for the last week except unity bugging out on me on one occasion, this part of the project is my favourite and I am happy with what I am doing, currently I am making lots of progress in my 3d models for the game I am creating.
Games Design Course - Harrison Preston 