AET Senior Design - Avian Problem

In anticipation for our presentation on Tuesday, the group (Alex, Gaby, and me) met up and worked all day to have a more complete product to demo for Tuesday. We got a much more complete playable app with working controls and mechanics. This result is still unclear on the exact gamification part of this process though

Today the group got together and worked heavily on creating assets that would go into the game. This included animations for most of our final characters, and more miscellaneous environmental assets.

This previous week and for the rest of this week work is being done to take the imported sprite sheet animations and determine the most effective way to transition their states in a smooth and blended manner.

On Sunday me and Alex worked on animation standards and export formats.  In addition to looking at his animation workflow and adding plugins into Adobe to create sprite sheets, we also looked at blocking out a first level with our pigeon mechanics. Gaby also consulted on level design too. In engine we worked on adding touch input buttons with visual feedback, and also changing our control scheme to allow bidirectional control.

Today I started placing physics objects around the level, and working on animation blends/walk controller for enemies. After that I will be adding ray-tracing detection of the bird to the enemy script. Also this weekend Alex and I talked about animation specifics, which basic animations we need and what tricks we can use to reduce the amount of animations needed.

I completed some work on a pigeon controller with stamina and a pooping mechanic, I will work with Alex to determine what is the most satisfying acceleration/speed for this controller.