Summary

This week, the team was focused on polishing the living room level and setting up the basement level for the Beta prototype for the playtest on Tuesday.

Timeline

1. March 18: Beta prototype & Playtest. This playtest was with invited past CSC404 students, where we gained a lot of insight on what to expect from Level Up, areas that should be of focus from now till the end and just overall feedback and tips for the game itself. 
2. March 21: Team-Wide Meeting. In this meeting, we outlined the tasks for each level and went over what to generally expect in the last few weeks. Updates from each team were given and plans were set on what work to prioritize. 

Progress

• Updated living room with more complex tasks (Trash Task)
• Fixed bugs discovered from prior playtests
  • Audio mixing in Unity needed revising due to volume of sound effects overpowering the music and the music overpowering the task completed audio indicator
  • Updated UI to have task completion visual banners and for dialogue to visually match to the color of the intended pet. Made the HUD more consistent and renforced view of controls for each pet. 
  • Fixed camera obstruction that occurs from walls 
• Set up the gray boxed basement in unity. Adding a transition from living room to basement once the tasks are completed. 
• Art Team primarily focused on working on getting the basement up.
• Updated existing 3D assets with textures to make environment more cohesive
• Music was developed for the basement to match the cold, mysterious vibes
• Shrinking sound effects were created and applied to the pet.

Challenges

• Bugs found:
  • Pet toppled over when split and couldn't get back up
  • Players can climb up to the roof.

Next Steps 

• Polish current scenes.
• Ensure living room has tasks that require/hit all special actions of the pet. 
• Update basement with textures, assets and tasks
• Update UI