CAGD 377 - Mobile Game Development

       I am the lead designer of group 2, and we are the team that is making Dimensional Delivery. I learned a lot of important things about our game over the course of this sprint, and they will have a direct impact on how we, or at least I, will spend the last sprint of this project trying to refine our game. During the sprint, I mainly worked on finishing the remaining list of sprites which I had been given in the previous sprint, and moving on to creating level difficulty variants for every level that we had currently implemented into the game. There were a few random issues that popped up from doing this. One thing that evaded me for a decent amount of time was that even though I had not created many of the assets myself and had used prefabs to put them into my level, some levels did not have any of the assets as prefabs and were not updating accordingly as a result. I manually fixed each of these levels, but it was not until the end of the sprint that I recog...

 I am the lead designer of Group 5. Over the course of this sprint, we shifted the focus from polishing the portal mechanics and level design to trying to clean up the overall presentation of the game. For me specifically, I shifted my focus from trying to create new levels and iterating on them to making sure that the user experience was visually appealing. The first thing I did at the very beginning of the sprint was change the app icon so that the appearance of the portal underneath the package was square. We changed the shape of the portal from an oval to a square for a handful of reasons. The first one is the most obvious–the way our portal appeared was much too similar to that of how the portals in Portal presented themselves. We wanted to find an easy way to differentiate our game from it other than just changing the colors of the portals. Another reason why we changed the shape of the portals was for the visual satisfaction aspect. It was an unexpectedly pleasant surprise t...