Week 4: SPRINT 1 START

Hello shoppers! Our supervisors have cleared our project for production so we can finally start working on our final project. We have completed all necessary documents and are ready to go.

But first we needed to make a plan we can stick to and execute for the first three weeks of production, also called Sprint 1. After everyone got assigned there task we could finally begin.

Movement and Picking Up Items:

Because we needed to start from scratch with a clean project we had to redo all of the code that was previously written. This may be a bit tedious but ultimately it helps us keeping things organized. We implemented movement again and the ability to pick up items and drop them again. This was also slightly expanded upon. When picking up multiple items they now stack on top of each other! And when you drop them again they fall nicely.

Character Design:

We started working on creating a design for our character. Because we had no clear direction beforehand we explored different possibilites and finally settled on an animal character:

Here is our adorable main character! We wanted to design him straight away so the team can greenlight the design early. As you can see every character will have the same look but with different colors. This way we can save some time with modelling, but still give every player an individual, recognizable character. We also started on making designs and modelling sheets for the shelves.

Level Design:

We also started exploring different level designs. It is very important that our level is balanced and supports our gameplay. The players need to be able to move around in the layout comfortably. There also shouldn't be any sections that are easy to block off or dead ends.

What's Next?

Since this is only Week 1 of Sprint 1 we need to continue creating and implementing for our game. We still need to design a lot of elements for our game and start creating them. As always we have added this weeks build.