This weekend I didn't do much for dissertation, but I took part in the UCS Global Games Jam 2014 - the first g, I worked with Scott and Diego for our game. The theme was this jam was "We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are" - now beforehand we all decided that this game would be an experimental one, and we ended spending hours on the design.
We got the theme at 19:30 and we ended up finishing it up at 0:00am, but we decided that the game would be played the perspective of a small creature - which we narrowed down to six: fly, spider, mouse, ant, frog and a snail. We researched two creatures each and we narrowed it down to the fly and the spider, we did think about getting both done but that be a lot to refine in 48 so we decided to go with the spider.
The game itself is an exploration game where you would see the world through the eyes of a spider - which was why we had 4 different cameras in the game trying to get it close enough as possible, ofcourse there was no way we could simulate it perfectly in the space between 48 hours, we also decided that we want the player to also feel powerful as well so we decided to have a few interactions within the environment also - knocking over domino's, hitting a golf ball around and just cause chaos.
My role in the production was modelling assets (alongside Scott while Diego did the code), and animate the spider's legs. Now, bearing in mind I am still learning how to animate and build a rig for a human biped character - sorting out the skeleton for the movement was probably the most difficult thing I had done. It's a new anatomy I would have to learn and not to mention the kind of tools you'd need for certain joints - which in 48 hours would be really difficult and the animating of the legs is fine, it wasn't as smooth as it could of been as I didn't use the Graph Editor in the game.
To sum up my experience in the games jam, I really enjoyed it and I am happy with what the team was able to produce. Hopefully in future I can give the spider's animating another try.
Well, this is it for this post: http://globalgamejam.org/2014/games/eye-spider the link to the game as well. Give it a try and see what you all think.
Hopefully I will get to doing more dissertation stuff over the course of the weekend - been spending most of this week doing work on other modules.
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