This is the last week of our project. Nathan has done a lot of work on the game in other class periods. We have finished the entire city and we are ready to play the game. I have been working on the presentation to make it where it isn’t boring when we present it. We practiced presenting it with each other and figured out who is going to read each slide. Overall, I think that this project was really fun and we both learned a lot about programming a game and we realized how much work people put into games that are very sophisticated. We have put a lot of work into this game and there have been a lot of changing ideas and figuring out how to make stuff work when it’s not going to plan.
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Nathan worked on the project during another class so I haven't seen what he has done until Wednesday. He put a lot of effort into making the game fun for everyone. There is now a military base and he put in fire trucks and police cars. He also added a gas station and apartments. There is still a lot more stuff that he is going to add during the rest of the week. We should be done with the game by the end of this week so that we can do our presentation. I have been working on a presentation for about a week now and have weeks 1-5 done. Next week Nathan is going to help me proofread the entire slideshow so that we can get it turned in before Christmas break. Neither of us want to have to do any work for this project during the break so we are working really hard to get it done.
This week we got a lot done with the city. Nathan got most of the city completed. He put in a lot of buildings that people will be able to go into. Some of the buildings that he put in are: a hospital, fire department, a police station and a gas station. We are still going to be adding more things to make the game fun for people to play. SInce Nathan got so much stuff done on the game we will be able to finish this week and then the last week we have we will be able to work on our presentation. I have started the presentation but we need to work on who will be explaining each week. Hopefully our presentation will go smoothly since we are going to have time to work on it together.
This week the library and all of the computer labs were closed on our genius hour day so we couldn't do anything. Hopefully this doesn't set us back with getting our game done.
This week we are working on making the city. There are going to be a lot of things that go into making the city. First, we have to flatten the land to make sure that the buildings are level. This may take us a while because we will need a lot of land to make the city big. We are going to try and finish the land today and maybe start on the city because we only have about 4 weeks left to finish the entire thing.
I’m not going to go into a lot of details about the city because to be honest I don't really know all of the things that we are going to be putting in. Hopefully there will be a lot of different things that we can make to make the city fun and interesting so that people will want to play the game. I do know of a few things that we may be putting in. If we have time we are going to be putting in a bowling alley, movie theater, and other fun things that people can do. So smoothing out the land did not take as long as we thought that it would take. We started to put the building in. We also had to extend the “world” so that we have more room to extend the city to make it bigger and so we can pot a lot more stuff. Since we added a new part the the city it is not smooth so we have to take a lot of time to smooth it out and make sure that we can put buildings on top of it. Nathan is starting to build a bridge and he is starting to make an island in the center of the lake. After he gets done with the bridge and the island he is going to start making the city. He is starting by making the road to the city. When you get on the game you will spawn onto the island and there will be cars that people can choose what car they want to drive into the city. Once you get to the city there will be a lot of different things you can do and buy.
We hope to get done with the city in about 4 weeks which will give us about 2 weeks to do any finishing touches. We will also be playing the game which will give us an idea on how its going to look when other people play it. This will also show us anything that we need to fix before we make the game public to people. Hopefully there won’t be any major changes that we will have to make. We had trouble with the island staying on top of the water. We tried so many things to keep it in place but it wasn’t working. We tried locking it in place but that didn’t work. We were also having trouble with the bridge staying in place as well. We tried all the same things on the bridge as we did with the island. We finally found a solution. We figured out that we had to make a base underneath the island and the bridge to hold them up because in real life bridges are not just floating on top of the water. Same with islands. This week Nathan is just going to go back and fix some things to make the game look better. He has mostly finished the lake and is just going and fixing some small details that will make it look better. The water has taken him a long time to make perfect because it just keeps messing up when we change the land around it. Luckily since he has been working with this game engine for a while Nathan is able to fix stuff pretty fast and also make things look good.
Hopefully in the next week we can start working on the city part. I am going to try and help him with the map so that we can get it done faster and have extra time to fix anything that we need to before the 12 weeks are over. I’ve decided that I am not going to make a separate game. One of the main reasons I'm not going to do this is because I couldn't find a game engine that would be easy to make a game. Instead, I am going to focus on the game that we are already working on. If I could show a picture of what our game would look like, it would look like we have not done much. For the time we have been working on the game (3 weeks) Nathan was working on making the mountains just right and then making sure the lake (which is basically the center of the game) look perfect. In the future weeks when we start having to put buildings and all of the other small details we want to add we will have to change the mountains a lot which might set us back. Maybe by the time we start working on the actual city part of the game Nathan will be able to change and build things really fast since he has been working with this game for longer than a month when we get to this point. This week, we fished the construction on the center piece of our video game map, which is a vast lake. When you play the game, users will load into this island in the middle of the game, which also will function as the game's initial point. On the island, you have a few options: you can remain and hang out in the beach houses, you can ride a boat or a jet ski around the lake, or you can stroll around on the beach.
Once you get done hanging around the island you can take the bridge and head over to the mainland. We have not gotten the mainland completely finished yet but we plan to have it look something like this. Imagine a grand city with skyscrapers reaching toward the heavens. On every street corner, there are fountains where you can throw a coin in to have your wish come true. You will be able to drive any car of your choice to get around the city, whether it's a fast Lamborghini, or a slightly annoying honda civic with a rusted-out exhaust. We also plan to add some mini-games to the city. Like a giant ski ball where you have this big ramp at the start of the lake and you launch your car off of the ramp to see how far you can make it into the lake. We are making very good progress with getting our game done. The lake took the longest out of everything because we had to build up dams and make sure all the water levels were correct. We are projecting for the city to take a total of roughly two weeks to complete, and the island should take roughly one and a half weeks to complete. This should allow us to have about two and a half weeks to be able to play the game and work out all the bugs that it may have like, lag in a certain area or a car spawner not working. This week Nathan continued making the game. Nathan is focusing on making the landscape. After he finishes the landscape he is going to start working on the building and whatever else we want to put. We may change some things about our original idea but thats the whole point of this project, improving our original idea to make it better for the people that will be playing this game.
I still am trying to find a game engine to make the game that was our original idea. I have been thinking about what I want the characters are going to look like and what the setting is going to look like. I have been helping Nathan design the Roblox game since I haven’t started my game yet. Hopefully, I can find an easy game engine to use in the next 1 or 2 so that I have plenty of time to make the game. Even if the game engine is a little hard I can still work with it and Nathan can help me with it since the Roblox game is going to be done in the next few weeks and maybe even less than that if we work together during FLEX time to get it done. We finally started working on making a game. We are going to start by making a game on Roblox. Since it won’t take long to make a game on Roblox then we may be able to try multiple different game engines, and make different kinds of games. We researched a bunch of different game engines that are easy to use for beginners and found a few that we might be interested in trying out.
We are starting to make a game based on a city. We are going to make it to where you can drive around and maybe buy apartments to “live” in. We think that this will be successful because there are only a few games that are like this. There are many city based games but we are going to add features that not a lot of games have. We are going to try and add things like bowling alleys, trampoline parks and things like that. With our original idea of making a game like temple run or subway surfers we are still going to try and do that. While Nathan is working on the roblox game I am going to try and find another software that is easy to use so that I can make a game like temple run. While making this game I have to figure out what the characters are going to look like and what the background will be. I will also have to think of a name that isn’t like subway surfers or temple run. |
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