The main challenge of this project was creating a herding system for the sheep. We originally planned on attempting to create this using boids, but eventually pivoted to using state machines and simple behaviours for the sheep to make the experience as fluid as could be done in our scope and timeline.

This was also the first time any of us was using Codecks, so I tried to help the team handle that new software, figure out best ways to use it, and help other students manage their tasks and schedule management. We also attempted to distribute tasks based on where they were in relation to our respective personal aims on the project. Every member placed themselves on the chart below to help us understand our shortgaps and what everyone prefers to do. We also attempted to update this during the project to keep it as a living document.

On the narrative side, we originally planned for 5 levels, but due to time constraints we reduced it down to only 4. The mountain path level (below marked as teal) was folded into the starting tutorial level, and we decided to remove the suburbs all together and just switch directly between the dark forest and the city. I was in charge of writing the outline and adapting it to the game as needed.

Time Squared was a simpler project, as we did not have a very long time while also working on other projects. The project also suffered as we planned and scoped for 5 people, but one of us had to drop out of it. 

My role on the project started focused mostly on production and UI, but when the 5th developer left I took up doing audio and animation as well. This mostly resulted in both us reducing the scope of some systems, and working more then we would have planned on. As my role was focused on production, the fact that most of the team had to crunch falls on me.

In regards to animations, the work is rather simplistic but I think it fits the style of the project. The main character has only 5 animations: Idle, Walk, Jump, Falling, and Landing (the gif below has these in that order). I rigged and animated the sprite in engine, which was more complicated then expected with the character just being a cube. 

I only took over audio in the last few days of the project. I decided not to use music but ambience tracks with sfx triggered on random intervals to have a varied musical landscape. We knew players would be playing the same levels for a while, so having music playing would probably get old quickly unless we had a very large variety. Having ambience instead sold the atmosphere of the game better, and having it be slightly randomized also reduced the monotony.

Bonneville was my first experience ever modding, as we only had one weak to change a different project to fit our aims.

Before starting this I played "Anatomy" by Kitty Horrorshow, and I wanted to attempt to pay homage by doing something similar. The game now switching between genres, internally named Walking (start of game), Noir (when it becomes black & white), Eldritch (shaed of purple & pink), Anatomy (All red, and the direct homage in the text), Meta (Matrix green, the character knows it is a character), and Tragic (Blue & purposefully hard to see, the character knows is asking for the end). The idea was to pay homage to different types of horror walking simulators, using audio and voice over to have those.

Cecilia who worked with me on this project made the different shaders using an internal tool the original team made, while I wrote the dialogue, recorded the narrative, and added the music & audio based on the current objective of the game.