Week 8 - Deep Dive Prep

Senior Team Week 8 (10/19-10/25)

This last week felt right, the team was focused on both getting our documentation together for challenging the next stage at the start of the next week.  We each had prototype work to do as well, Kody with getting art assets into the game, Michael was busy fixing and refixing the aiming of the guns and Aiden was designing the level.  My responsibilities were to implement the sounds and get the in game menu to work.  I start getting nervous when a week goes by and I don’t feel like work got done on the game which did not happen this week, unlike the last time we were preparing to challenge.  I was able to strike a healthy balance between implementing sounds, creating the Audio Pipeline, adding the in game menu and writing/practicing my slide for the presentation.

The main letdown of the week was that we did not manage to set up a Discipline Review with Professor Eric Sample who teaches Audio Production classes and who we had hoped would help us iron out the our Audio plans.  The only other Discipline Review we had planned to do this week was with Professor Wehmeyer and it went very well, we went in looking to get a better handle on our aesthetic and to see if we could get any help with our research on the Ottoman Empire. Professor Wehmeyer was a great help in these regards and was very interested in where we had taken the game since we had last talked with him.

We were confident that when we challenged we would be able to pass easily. This was because we had been constantly communicating our research to each other and we had spent each meeting for the last 3 weeks exploring our mechanics, world and story trying to figure out the best way to do everything.  However we were unable to get everyone to create their slides before our Friday meeting and so were unable to practice our presentation then, undaunted we planned to finish our slides by Sunday and practice then. Calamity struck when I got news that one my cousins had died and her funeral was on Sunday, Aidan also found himself stranded outside the state when he missed the bus back to Vermont. The Sunday meeting and presentation practice was therefore very understaffed and what practice the group got did not include everyone.