Angela Buchanan, Week 7 PPJ, Blog Post 7, GMAP 378

Interface, Texturing, Sell

My main focus for this week was texturing the alien and making the scoring for our game more visual.

During our last meeting, the team discussed the best way to make scoring visual. We chose to go with a tug-o-war bar on the side, mainly because it is a simple familiar concept that the viewer can quickly pick up and understand. It also better reinforces the color connection of both sides. (Humans pink, Aliens green)

I was assigned with texturing the alien model a couple of a weeks ago and I completed it this week. It took longer than I had planned, for their were challenges regarding the UVs I was working with. Overall, I am happy with the end result.

Lastly, I added the final touch-ups for this weeks sell presentation. I anticipate that more alterations will need to be made, but overall I think our sell is in a good spot.

Positive Content   

- Score bar is now visual instead of just numbers

- Alien model now has texture

Negative Content

- UVs were tricky to work with

Work and hours

Alien Model Texture (4 hrs)

.Texturing the model took longer than I had anticipated. There were some difficulties regarding the UV layout of certain areas, but I managed to work around it. 

Score Bar (1 hrs)

During class it was suggested that we have a visual aid for the scoring of our game. So during our meeting we discussed the best route and decided to go with a "tug-o-war" method of visualizing the scoring. The humans  are represented with pink and aliens with green.

Whenever the humans fail, the green bar will push away at the pink and when the human win, the pink will push away at the green.

Player Selection screen Instructions Update (.5 hrs)

I made dash instructions for the player selection screen. I used this as an opportunity to make it more clear that the top screen belongs to the aliens, while the bottom belongs to the humans.

Sell Touch-Ups (1 hrs)

Xavi took last term's sell and combined it with the one our team made for GDC. I took that sell and reviewed and edited it so that the slides maintained consistency in regards to image formatting. I also corrected animations and added style to the slides that were lacking it. My contributions were entirely visual and did not impact or change the structure.

Total Hours: 6.5 hrs