!Bird

Devlog

• !Bird Postmortem
  December 02, 2021 by trendywalnut

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  Over the span of this project we have learned a lot working together as a team, as well as in each of our specific roles. We began with a bit ambitious expectations but in the end managed to make some... Continue reading
• Car Driving - Melody
  December 01, 2021 by Rhia_a

  I was responsible for the implementation of the 3 moving cars on the roads. I implemented a schoolbus because some people had a difficult time finding the school so I thought making an eye catching mo... Continue reading

  
• Level Art - Final Thoughts
  December 01, 2021 by Rhia_a

  Working on the art implementation has certainly been a learning process. I had never really done worldbuilding with and asset pack quite to this scale before so there were some things I wasn't able to... Continue reading

  
• UI - Final Thoughts
  December 01, 2021 by Ethan Godwin#devlog, #ui

  In addition to my main Sound & Narrative Designer role, I also took up doing all the work on the UI for !Bird ; this meant designing the layout, functions, when UI elements would appear, creating the... Continue reading

  
• Narrative Design - Final Thoughts
  December 01, 2021 by Ethan Godwin

  As I was working on the Narrative Design for !Bird, the direction I went with it actually changed more than I expected. I initially didn't plan to have much of a climactic ending for the game, but I e... Continue reading
• Sound Design - Final Thoughts
  December 01, 2021 by Ethan Godwin

  One of my main jobs for !Bird was being the Sound Designer; this meant picking out and implementing all of the audio that went into the game, from 3D environmental sounds to UI sounds to music. I did... Continue reading
• Character Controller Changes
  November 29, 2021 by trendywalnut#Scripting

  Over the span of this semester, one of the main challenges for me specifically was creating a character controller that felt good to use, worked well with our gameplay loop and was intuitive to the pl... Continue reading
• Level Scripter - Connor
  November 29, 2021 by trendywalnut

  Mechanics: Character Controller have player always move forward, with player able to control Target identification system check if the color the player is looking at matches a predetermined color (suc... Continue reading
• Level Art Polish - Melody
  November 27, 2021 by Rhia_a

  After implementing all of the districts(housing, downtown, and park) respective models, I have been working on polishing our level art and worldbuilding. Some of the changes I've made include adding a... Continue reading

  
• Worldbuilding Update - Melody
  November 01, 2021 by Rhia_a

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  I have been working on implementing our art assets into the whiteboxed level. Upon doing this I have had to optimize some of our layouts to accommodate for real world things like roads and the overall... Continue reading

  
• Playtest feedback and plan going forward
  November 01, 2021 by Ethan Godwin

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  After our playtests, we reviewed the feedback we got from everyone who played the game and took note of the most common comments people made. We then compiled a list of changes we want to make to the... Continue reading
• Level Scripter (UPDATE) - connor
  November 01, 2021 by trendywalnut

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  This time around some art was added into our base scene, and I was able to code a character controller for our bird model, as well as add functionality to scan the people in the environment. Flying is... Continue reading

  
• Sound & Narrative Design Update
  November 01, 2021 by Ethan Godwin

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  Since my last post, I've done a lot of work on picking out and implementing sounds for the game. Sounds have been picked out for all player actions, and I've also picked out 3D environmental sounds. F... Continue reading
• Art Direction
  October 20, 2021 by Rhia_a

  Art Direction Low Poly City Scape Reference Future In Game Implementation Asset Pack: Low Poly Ultimate Pack by Polyperfect on the Unity Asset Store... Continue reading
• Layout/Whitebox - Melody
  October 20, 2021 by Rhia_a

  Legend for Unity Whitebox Green = Trees Dark Grey = Roads Light Grey = Parking Lots S = School L = Library G = Gym Changes Originally, I was working on the city district but inherited the task of whit... Continue reading

  
• Sound & Narrative Design
  October 20, 2021 by Ethan Godwin

  Sound style references The sound style for !Bird will match the quirky, offbeat nature of its premise, referencing games like Donut County and A Short Hike. Some sounds, like wind blowing or cars movi... Continue reading
• Layouts and whiteboxes - Ethan
  October 20, 2021 by Ethan Godwin

  Layouts: Final digitized layout: Decisions and Changes: Most of the changes between these layouts came from the method our group took in divvying up the work; we split the city into three main sectors... Continue reading
• Layout/whitebox - Connor
  October 18, 2021 by trendywalnut

  While designing the layout for our level, we each drew up a different section of the level multiple times to have some variety to choose from. I went with the park section and these were my three mock... Continue reading