WEEK 13

Final final press release:

Final email templates, including formatting for MailChimp:

Additional mailing lists:

Pamphlet design, creation:

Marketing at Netherworld Indie Dev Night:

Bugs, issues list:

Dialogue Bug:

Heresy: Frog Animation

Heresy: Phase 2 blocking and cylinder reference bug

Indiedb Accounts:

WEEK 13 – PUBLISHING TASKS

Final final press release – 2 hours

Final email templates, including formatting – 4 hours

Final QA pass – 2 hours

Pamphlet design, creation – 6 hours

Marketing at indie dev night – 5 hours

Git, writing blog, team tasks – 3 hours

Bugs, issues list – 4 hours

Indiedb Accounts – 4 hours

30 hours total

WEEK 12 – LOG, SUMMARY

Weekly Log: (25 hours)

Task	Date Complete	Time Spent	Evidence
Final press release, more research	15/10/17	2 hours	Link to appropriate blog post (with evidence)
Bugfixing from issues list	14/09/17	4 hours	Link to appropriate blog post (with evidence)
Writing up final QA Lists (Player character, Elevators, final bugs)	16/09/17	4 hours	Link to appropriate blog post (with evidence)
QA Testing	17/09/17	2 hours	Link to appropriate blog post (with evidence)
Identify 25  suitable external contacts and their email addresses	12/09/17	3 hours	Link to appropriate blog post (with evidence)
Scaffold email template	12/09/17	2 hours	Link to appropriate blog post (with evidence)
Organising showcase	12/09/17	2 hours	Link to appropriate blog post (with evidence)
Finalising GIT merge, fix conflicts	13/10/17	3 hours	N/A
Project documentation tools	17/10/17	1 hour	Taiga.io boards, Google Calendar, Excel spreadsheets
Writing my blog with screenshots and evidence	17/10/17	2 hours	N/A

WEEK 12 – DEVELOPMENT

 

Press Release 2.0

(the final press release will also include an embedded video trailer of Hellevator)

Email Lists

Email Template

Snippet of QA:

Bugfixing

WEEK 11 – LOG, SUMMARY

Weekly Log: (25 hours)

Task	Date Complete	Time Spent	Evidence
Creating “Credits” menu	04/10/17	2 hours	Link to appropriate blog post (with evidence)
Bugfixing pause, main menus	05/09/17	1 hour	Link to appropriate blog post (with evidence)
Bug fixing player character and Heresy frog	05/09/17	2 hours	Link to appropriate blog post (with evidence)
Writing up the QA Lists (Treachery, Heresy, Greed)	07/09/17	8 hours	Link to appropriate blog post (with evidence)
QA Testing	07/09/17	2 hours	Link to appropriate blog post (with evidence)
Research press releases, examples of game press releases	08/09/17	2 hours	Link to appropriate blog post (with evidence)
Writing press release	09/09/17	4 hours	Link to appropriate blog post (with evidence)
Finalising GIT merge, fix conflicts	10/10/17	2 hours	N/A
Project documentation tools	04/10/17	1 hour	Taiga.io boards, Google Calendar, Excel spreadsheets
Writing my blog with screenshots and evidence	10/10/17	1 hour	N/A

WEEK 11 – DEVELOPMENT

QA lists

• Example of object list i used in game as a reference

• QA list screenshots

Gameplay

• Pause screen – larger shadow area

• Credits button

• Player Character

I also spent time researching how to solve the hollow player character model issue. I inspected the player UV mapped mesh and textures but found that I had difficulty changing them without using Blender, so instead I experimented with light emitters.

In the end this was not kept in the game – Bob found an alternative method to alter the texture and prevent the model seeming ‘hollow’.

Press Release

WEEK 9/10 – LOG, SUMMARY

Weekly Log: (47 hours)

Task	Date Complete	Time Spent	Evidence
Heresy – vial colliders, Frog mesh	22/09/17	6 hours	Link to appropriate blog post (with evidence)
Heresy – phase 2 bugs	23/09/17	2 hours	Link to appropriate blog post (with evidence)
Finetuning cabling and rigidity	23/09/17	2 hours	Link to appropriate blog post (with evidence)
Hellevator doors opening – after speech logic and implementation	02/10/17	6 hours	Link to appropriate blog post (with evidence)
Hellevator doors opening – after death logic and implementation	02/10/17	4 hours	Link to appropriate blog post (with evidence)
Creating persistent variables (gameinstanceobject) as secondary trigger  for elevator door animations,  including video and forum research	01/10/17	4 hours	Link to appropriate blog post (with evidence)
Changing some dialogue lines according to playertesting feedback	02/09/17	1 hour	Link to appropriate blog post (with evidence)
Creating dialogue animations for all widgets to ensure consistency	30/09/17	2 hours	Link to appropriate blog post (with evidence)
Fixing dialogue  referencing bugs in Hellevator	30/09/17	4 hours	Link to appropriate blog post (with evidence)
‘Controls’ menu (on main menu), widget changes, blueprint implementation	02/09/17	3 hours	Link to appropriate blog post (with evidence)
Player attacking forwards	01/09/17	5 hours	Link to appropriate blog post (with evidence)
Logo Design	01/09/17	2 hours	Link to appropriate blog post (with evidence)
Finalising GIT merge, fix conflicts	03/10/17	2 hours	N/A
Project documentation tools	03/10/17	2 hours	Taiga.io boards, Google Calendar, Excel spreadsheets
Writing my blog with screenshots and evidence	03/10/17	2 hours	N/A

Trailer Storyboard

WEEK 9/10 – DEVELOPMENT

Heresy – Vial Colliders

Before, when vials were destroyed in Heresy to create acidic puddles the colliders for the glass vial bottles still remained in the puddle. This involved changing the trigger from “component hit” to “component overlap”

Heresy – Phase 2 Shockwave

Ensured that object is destroyed upon collision with the player’s Block sphere.

I also altered the cable rigidity of Lil Lucifer, to ensure its movement was more organic in-game.

Dialogue

• Changed some dialogue lines according to playertesting feedback

• Flash ‘e to continue’ – consistency, creating animations for all dialogue widgets

• Fixed a dialogue bug (broken referencing)

Controls Menu

Player attacking forwards

Found that the rotator had to be broken to ensure that Lil Death’s Z-axis was unchanged during combat.

Elevator doors

My producer told me to complete the following:

• Have elevator doors open after conversation with Lil Lucifer
• If player dies and is returned to elevator, have elevator doors opened immediately (instead of having to wait or complete conversation again)

Complete Implementation:

To do this, I first needed to find a way to create persistent variables, This was done through a Game Instance Object blueprint.

The blueprint had a single boolean variable to track if a player has just died – the game instance object global variable to track this is accessed through the game now – it is set by the player character blueprint, upon player death.

Upon entering an elevator, this variable is accessed and checked to see if the player was returned to the elevator upon death, or whether they were taken to the elevator after successfully completing a level.

If  player returns to elevator upon their death, immediately play elevator doors opening in-engine:

If  player returns to elevator upon their successful level completion, wait until conversation end to open elevator doors:

Reset both these variables upon exiting the elevator.

WEEK 8 – LOG, SUMMARY

Weekly Log: (26 hours)

Task	Date Complete	Time Spent	Evidence
Playertesting	18/09/17	5 hours	Link to appropriate blog post (with evidence)
Cabling connection between Lucifer and Lil Death	16/09/17	5 hours	Link to appropriate blog post (with evidence)
Altering properties of cabling	16/09/17	2 hours	Link to appropriate blog post (with evidence)
Cabling between Big Lucifer and Lil Death	17/09/17	2 hours	Link to appropriate blog post (with evidence)
Altering properties and code implementation of  large cabling	17/09/17	1 hour	Link to appropriate blog post (with evidence)
Redesigning widgets for consistency	15/09/17	2 hours	Link to appropriate blog post (with evidence)
Lil Lucifer blueprint remodelling	16/09/17	2 hours	Link to appropriate blog post (with evidence)
Creating animation for dialogue prompting	16/09/17	1 hour	Link to appropriate blog post (with evidence)
Finalising GIT merge, fix conflicts	18/09/17	2 hours	N/A
Project documentation tools	13/09/17	2 hours	Taiga.io boards, Google Calendar, Excel spreadsheets
Writing my blog with screenshots and evidence	19/09/17	2 hours	N/A

WEEK 8 – DEVELOPMENT

Cabling – Lil Lucifer

• In game

• Code

Cabling – Big Lucifer

• In game

• Code

• Level Blueprint for creation

Widget re-designs

• Treachery

• Hellevator

• Prompt widget

Animation

Lil Lucifer Blueprint Redesign