Tuesday, 27 April 2010

Tuesday coz I were gettin stabbed on monday

Righty, daunting prospect of the write up and diary business aside for the time being, I've been given something to get on with today. So far I've written up two of the mini game ideas with things for the actual makey people (them wot speaks binary) to be given so they can extract the players into some of the nice hum ourous setting. 2 of the ideas I've got have been ok'd seeing as they've got some humour in, and a third has but unsure as of yet it's goingt o be used, but cracking on anyway.
Writing these up as design documents are a bit different from how I've done it before, need to actually get stuff in that those binary people can look at to determine how the games will actually work when being implemented. Not what I'd call my strong suit, but at least I can write it all up in english (Y)
Two done so far, and going to have to bring my comp in again on the morrow to actually make some general layout designs, which may be a combo of modeling and photoshop, which I've had a bit of a dabble in here but this should quite suit me as it's going to be showing the actual look of how the levels will be. With regards to the process here being different to how I've gone about it before I'm actually enjoying it. Seems to be more and more while I'm here I'm actually interested in it and pretty sure this is where I want to be at.
Had a good session this morning throwing a couple of ideas about and looking through a doc for the only other approved mini game, sort of to get my head around a general layout, even though the boss said he'd have preferred his to be in a bit more detail. To me it looked fine for what he wanted to achieve, but I've tried to go into that much more detail on stuff like point scoring and spawn times and other crap that makes about as much sense to me as bot pathing does (which, just incase your wondering, is still well over my head).
All said he thiks the general layout and the stuff I've covered is about right in this new doc. From what was said this morning the other set of thirtyish ideas I originally came out with should've all been to the level I'm doing them now, though I think that might've been a bit of a wasted effort tbh as I've done two today, and with trying to compile some of the ideas I haven't got passed, which is probably alot of coding and random stuff, again that I don't understand, is going to be alot of work, though I guess I'm getting the hang of when it's working and when it's not.

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