Creating Powerbar - 1.5 hrs
Creating Pointing Hand - 1 hr
Website update - 30 mins
This week was largely taken up with time needed to prepare for the GDC presentation that was on February 5th. Some of it was spent at the motion base gathering people to make testimonials towards Alien Arcade, some of it was tweaking the presentation and brainstorming what we should add, some of it was creating the Testimonial video from the various footage we shot, and of course lastly we had to practice the live demo and presentation multiple times and troubleshoot things as we caught them. Needless to say, it was a very busy week! Just in this portion alone, we ran into some editing issues, scene loading issues in the demo, and overall technical difficulty. We powered through it though, and now as a byproduct of our hard work for that presentation there is also more content to market Alien Arcade with.
The actual plan for this week from the art team was to divide what was required for the games we were making for midterms week. As it worked out, each person basically got assigned to two art related tasks and had to complete them. For me, these were the Powerbar for the Ram the Planet microgame (and others that may need it moving forward), and the Pointing Hand for the Poke the Alien minigame.
For the Powerbar, I decided to make it blend in with the dash of the UFO and the menus we already have set up, this way it naturally looks as if it is an extension of the ship in some manner.
As for the Pointing Hand, I thought taking a (more) realistic approach would be silly and accessible in Alien Arcade, so I created a vector hand based off of an actual photograph and tried to get it to match.
The website update was just adding in and formatting the content that we had made for the GDC pitch, which included the gif of the motionbase and the Testimonial video.
Content Positive:
- We worked really hard to get our demo and marketing material up to snuff for GDC! Everything we needed clocked in at under the 5 minute allotted time and we have things to use for the site now.
- A Powerbar was created primarily for Ram the Planet, but also can be universally incorporated into games that require it.
- The Pointing Hand is finished and I think came out quite well for what I was shooting for.
Content Negative:
- All of these things took a super large amount of time out of my (midterm) week
Total Time Spent: 9-11 Hours
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