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Studio - 3 Week-4

Early pitch went bad as there were different scenes and I was late, we worked on integrating our scenes and making everything work however there are many text components and particles to send over the network, which will take me a while to figure out.

For our second class we are re-structuring some code in order to get better performance because the game seems to lag quite a bit wherein we are having a rubber banding issue in the client while I work on the networking.

The team does not want a networked game and feel that I am dragging them down thus we have decided to part ways, I will be now only working on networking and remastering an older game I have worked on for production called “The first Valkyrie”, I was pretty passionate about the project and working on this project again is going to be great.

Restarting work on setting up trello & documentation is going to be pretty annoying as this is the part of production I have never liked however I will be working for myself this time and no one to depend on thus I feel a little more confident now than I did back in week2 .

While working on the remaster for the project I have been looking over the older project which seems to have some pretty simple code in it , which brings back lots of memories however it also shows the progress I have made so far as a developer . I will be working on getting the game up and running for week 5 with remastering all its assets, audio files etc because most of this projects assets were made by students in SAE.

Remastered assets:




I have worked on resizing the assets from 32*32 pixels to 1024*1024 pixels which has improved the visual quality of the basic models and I have also added a few more colors for the player as one of the features I am planning are unlockable colors for the player.

Another part of the remaster is to include better new UI , networking , animations & advanced coding practices I have learned over the period of two years in order to make a more efficient game 

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