CAGD 377 - Mobile Game Development

 The process of developing Portal Packaging has gone well. All of the members of the team have continued making good progress on the project, and our strong communication has managed to carry over from last sprint as well. Personally, however, I ran into one major issue that stopped a lot of the momentum I was carrying from the initial sprint into this second one.  The main issue that I encountered this sprint was that I took on the task of implementing a Narrator system into the project. I am not an especially well-versed programmer, but because of the workload which Chase, our lead programmer, has been taking on in order to program the main mechanics of the game, I decided that it would be more beneficial to the team for me to program the Narrator which would instruct the player in how to play the game based on what actions they have or have not done. The issue that I ran into was that because I was very unfamiliar with using the Observer pattern in programming, I had a ...

I am on Team 2, and we are making Portal Packaging, a mobile game about solving puzzles by using portals to transport packages and crates across different levels. This process has gone very well so far. We have just finished the first sprint, but my team is already very structured with goals set in mind for each sprint, and thanks to our programmer, Chase, we already have functioning portals and crate physics. I am the designer of my team. Although a designer is what I originally set out to be in the first place when I first started attending Chico, this project has been my first real opportunity to lead the design on the game and be the primary driver on things such as mechanics, art direction and level design. It is pretty unfamiliar to me, because I mostly have done producer related work in the past, but I think this semester and project will act as a great learning experience for me to see if I prefer to produce games or design them. As a group, we did not encounter any major is...