Prototye 2 week2

The Models

This week I did a little bit art work 

This is a sword I made for our game.I also got some tree samples to our game.

Three of us were working on the same thing.And we all work it out but it was a way to waste too much time.Then we realized it and separate the work for small pieces but this had made a bigger problem. So we separated all the work into some pieces.

Prototype 2 week1

We had two clients.It seemed another is for making some games to help people to study.I am glad to working with the game on the special machine named  treadport to help people to recover from their injuries.I also had a try about it. It is so good.

I working this Zac,AB and Wang.I found out sometimes I can not understand what AB said.Usually we need to talk the same things twice.The Indian accent is so difficult to me. I try my best to communicate with him. For me it is a good experience.But I think I still need to improve my listening skill.It was good to have some people from your own country.

This time we work in XNA.

At first I think it is easier than the MOAI Engine.But I was wrong.The XNA is not a game engine, it is just a lib.So this means we need to write all the thing by ourselves.Since this is first time to make a game in 3D without engine support , it will be very tough for me.Time to improve the skill and see your guys at class next week.

Since this game is going to run on the treadport which has no button.So we get the idea to build the collision polygon bigger than the object,so when player get collision with the collision polygon will trigger an Animation and sound play.We first came up the idea go for camping but it seems a lot of art work need to do.So Zac change it to Killing Orcs.

Prototype1 week4

This week I first working with the things to let our Rubbins counting when our cheese ball collect Rubbins. I have done the counting part thing but It did not show well in the our UI.

At the last day I try to add sound to our game. I get some interesting sound and edit in a software to make it adaptable for our game.The codes of Adding a sound is very simple but because our team work at Xcode in Mac.There are some special setting in the Xcode.I search the internet and find out someone had the same problem.There is also a solution but it is solved in Xcode3 not in Xcode4. So I read some document to find out the difference in Xcode3 and Xcode4.At last i figure it out .It is good experience to work on Mac system.It is tougher than to work on windows.

The settings of the Xcode4

Our game looks like

Prototype 1 week3

Collect the Rubbins.

This is the most tough part to work out in this project.I figure out to use dynamic box to be our collectable item.I use the collision handler in the Box2D and when our cheese ball get the collision with the Rubbins the count will plus one and destroy the dynamic box let the cheese ball go though it. 

Prototype 1 week2

I and Chris both built a basic level with 2DBox to test.We got confused at first to make a camera. Then I get some suggestions from Max "check the samples".This is really helpful because there were a lot of sample codes which we want.I get the direction to make the camera,also shared this with Chris.He get the some codes from the sample and changed it to what we want and finally got our camera.

Then we start work with the terrain. We were stagnant at first because there was few document and tutorial tells us how to work with MOAI. We want to find a way to draw some curve shapes in the our game.I find out a way to do that it is to rewrite the bottom files of MOAI engine in C++ and compile it then use the new engine to draw the curve.Some guys provide this idea on the internet but no completed engine to use.Considering the time is limited and both of us is not so good at C++,we give up using this way and turn to draw all the terrain in small polygons ( in Box2D) to let it looks like it is a curve.

I must say MOAI give me a lot troubles.No documents in Chinese and Japanese,this made me hard to learn and understand this Engine.Also a lot of things need to do to find a house to live and other things out of class took me a lot of time.Especially the TB test,I didn't know why became swollen but I need to go to the student health center again,this is too bad.