Summary

This week was spent brainstorming possible level designs, creating a development timeline for the upcoming weeks, and preparing for the design document submission.  

Timeline

1. February 1: Held a team-wide meeting to discuss level design ideas. We brainstormed possible puzzles as well as the potential rooms in which these puzzles would take place. We also defined a set of environment objects that the pet can interact with. Lastly, we created a project timeline document that defined goals and milestones to be completed weekly by each of the dev, art, and music teams. 
2. February 4: Design Presentation
3. February 7: Design Document Submission

Progress

• Defined a preliminary list of puzzles and assigned them to each room.
• Created a list of environment objects that the pet can interact with. 
• Brainstormed how to utilize the tutorial level to introduce players to the basic and special actions. 
• Progress on modeling our dog character 
• Designed and placed furniture in the attic and living room. 
• Defined implementation goals for each week by each team to track progress. 

Challenges

• Difficulty figuring out the details of each puzzle without a clear image of what the room contains or what can be achieved by the actions that the pet can perform

Next Steps 

• Figure out a reliable solution (instead of hacky workarounds that only work for some machines) for the gravity issue
• Reconvene as a team to discuss how to split up tasks for the next milestone
• Continue building the Living Room Level
• Populate our Attic Level with tasks 
• Designing sounds for tasks (e.g., vase falling and breaking) and integrating these sounds into the game
• Implement the rest of our basic actions (tail movement, front paw usage, making a noise)
• Refine the cat front’s climbing special action and dog back's hind leg action

Links & Resources

GitHub:  https://github.com/annechoww/Frankenpets