CAGD170 - Storyteller’s Lie

   11/20/2022

ePortfolio Post #3

Martin Vilches, Group 5:



In this final section of the semester, we were tasked to do another game now with fewer limitations than before, which gave us more creative freedom to come up with ideas. In my last project, we tried to achieve a big board game that could be boxed and sold. With this new assignment in hand, I wanted to focus more on something that could bring up in the spot, like something you would play in the line while waiting for an amusement ride or in the car while traveling with friends or family.


The game me and my partner came up with was a Lie Detection based game in which the players would have to tell real stories and change some details of it to see if the other person could realize it. It is a point-based system, so depending on the difficulty of the lie then the more points you get. This will make the game more challenging but also harder to achieve the points to win the game. 


Something we struggled with was the decision of how to achieve the game, we wanted the game to be as easily playable as possible, so our first intention was to do it with cards and let it be an actual printable board game. However, later we found out that doing this type of game would requiere a lot of card development and designing. So my partner found a way to achieve our same focus but in a website and basically made a random generator for the prompt for the lies. This made our thought process much clearer and allowed us to concentrate on more prompts for the game.


During our first playtesting, we got some very useful feedback. The players thought of the game as what we intended it to be. Something simple and fast that you could play anywhere and pull it up whenever you wanted. They also successfully guessed the age range for what the game was for, which is teenagers - adolescents. Something that we were not expecting was for them to tell us that it would be much more user-friendly to have printable cards than an online generator. This gave my partner and me a different perspective of the game and how it needed to be. Now we needed to come up with somehow make the game card-friendly once more.


Now with a more stable view of the game, we need to brand the game somehow, make it poppy and more interesting to the person. The cards would need to be easy to read but also good-looking so they will be attractive to the person playing it. We didn’t want the player to be looking at the box or instructions on how to play the game but instead make it a more self-teachable game. We came up with some easy-looking card concepts; however, they were too simple for what we were going for, so after more sketches and decisions. We came up with a more stylish way of making the cards for the game.






Overall making this game has been very challenging. Before being tasked to do this project, my thought was that the simpler the game, the simpler it would be for the developers; however, this proved not to be the case because we put much effort in making the game simple but not making it too simple that the player wouldn’t understand what to do next. This game was a good idea; however, we had to change many styles and ways of approaching the game, and this made it a bit difficult to complete the overall project.


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

CAGD 373 - Pirate Game Assets Final

Image
  Game Walkthrough:      The goal of this project was to recreate a location from Sea Of Thieves. My team decided to work on an outpost with a stationary sloop and a tavern. We needed to make the mountains similar and add many assets that would be interesting for the player to look at, like the barrels and the lamposts. Also, we needed some interactivity, like cannon shooting and quests. My role on this project was the programmer in charge of implementing all the systems regarding the gameplay. So I managed to make the player movement, interaction with barrels, shootable cannons, a quest system, the final battle, money systems, a high score leaderboard table, and many other small systems within the scene. I also tackled Unity-related tasks like generating a new water shader and sculpting the terrain. One of the problems I faced was dealing with the inventory system since that took a whole sprint on its own, and I did not have any prior experience designing one. I tac...
Read more

CAGD 470 - Locked in Sprint #1

Image
  In CAGD 470 (Video Game Production), I was recruited into a group that wanted to make a first-person horror game in which a player is in a laboratory and trying to escape. At the same time, some monsters roam around, making the player’s journey difficult. The game will have various rooms and puzzles that will challenge the player. In the game's vision, enemies would roam the laboratory. The player would have to gather various items that will help them on their journey to escape the lab. After getting an idea of the game, many key points and features came to my attention, including the player controller, enemy AI, Inventory System, and Crafting System. All those were going to be heavy tasks for this project. After discussing with the other members in the group, we concluded that the hardest feature to develop would be enemy AI since it needed to include multiple behaviors and enemy types, and we all had previous experience programming enemy AI. I took on the task of learning how t...
Read more

CAGD 495 - Stumble Sprint #3

Image
  Starting Sprint #3 for Stumble, there were various things that I wanted to get done; personally, I wanted to implement the core game loop and get started on the arena for the game. During the sprint kickoff, there were various priorities that the designer and producer wanted me to get done at the beginning of the sprint, which were modifying the player controller further and changing some keys; these changes were based on the playtests conducted at the end of the previous sprint. It was mentioned to me that during this sprint, we were going to have an animator & rigger for the team, so I wanted to get animations in the game. So, the first thing I started working on was the priorities and adjusting the player controller. I started working on a delay for the diving mechanic. The biggest problem during the playtest was that players were unable to cancel the dive and dive midair again; if you were quick enough, you would get boosted forward just by tapping space quickly. I adde...
Read more