Class Hours: 10:05 – 2:40
Mr. Cronin
Notes
- Friday! What do you think, should we always have 3 day weeks and 4 day weekends?
- Skills Presentations today at 11:35. Make sure your deliverable is ready.
- Remember that you end up in English after lunch.
- Speed Design right after break…back to normal.
- Variation on the Hadouken punch – is this the REAL Mario? Fatty needs to learn the counter – eat the pizza!
- Don’t forget Daylight Savings this weekend – we will lose an hour, but gain light.
10:05 Attendance
10:10 Skills Production
Check back to the Thursday Dayplan for specifics.
Game Design
Below is what your Creative Director has said your marching orders are. Have this ready for testing next Thursday @ 10AM!
Agent Flea
Defeating enemies that are spawning in waves.
- First Person in Unreal.
- Melee initially (shovel / trowel as starter weapon).
- Maybe sea based gun / pool noodle as power ups.
- Enemies spawn out of Ocean. Each wave of enemies will be harder and harder – the different “levels”.
- Player is protecting Sand Castle against the waves of enemies coming from the ocean.
Win Condition
- Beat Final Boss at the end of the 4th wave of enemies.
Lose Condition
- Castle is smushed due to enemies from the ocean.
Level Design
- Beach scene with road and decorative city.
- 1 real building (the shop) where in between waves we can access power ups.
- Tunnels left and right.
Sightless Studios
Hack n’ slash combat. Collecting fragments.
- 3rd Person locked perspective with 2D sprites.
- Built in Unity
Fragments
- Speed and Jump power item found in Level 1
- Break Walls power item found in Level 2
Level 1
- Inside Spaceship #1
Level 2
- Inside Spaceship #2 (different design)
Win Condition
- Survive to the end of of Level 2 and beat the boss
Lose Condition
- Lose HP and die
Greywood Studios
Puzzles
- 2D top-down
- Built in Unity
Tutorial Level
- Find key to access next room.
Level 1
- Push assets in level to move on, freeing up a path.
Level 2
- Destroying game elements to progress and free up path (bomb, fire, etc).
Win Condition
- Get to the end of Level 2 with some sort of ending or pre visual of unplayable Level 3.
Lose Condition
- Die in game (1 hit kills) and respawn at start of the level you died in.
10:50 Morning Break (10 minutes)
11:00 Skills Production
11:35 Skills Presentations
11:55 Lunch
- No food in the room / eat in the Cafe.
- You are welcome to return to the room when you have finished eating and work / hang out.
12:25 English
1:10 Afternoon Break
1:25 Speed Design
Speed Designs are 15 minute sprints in GAWD where we practice. It could be any medium – 3D, 2D, video, programming, etc.
1:40 Afternoon Practice & Production
Week 23 Agency
- lastNameAgency_1.jpg through lastNameAgency_3.jpg
2:15 Dailies
2:20 “19 Minutes”
Every day in GAWD will end with “19 Minutes” of silent reading. Closing down our day with silent reading provides many benefits:
- Improve Literacy Skills / Reading Stamina
- Create space for a small reading meditation where we can disconnect from the world and get lost in a story
- Unplug
At the end I will 3 students and ask for a 1 sentence explanation of what happened.
2:40 Dismissal
