top of page
Tamara's
Portfolio
Where you can find me:
Games I worked on with others:
Detective Gravetrotter
What is the game???
You're a detective going through levels while using statues to get around the maze-like levels. The goal fo the game is to collect the key located in each level to open the gate that will let you progress.
Progress of game
Jan + Feb progress
Mar + Apr progress
Design process
First Milestone - Jan to Feb
-
This is when we started creating ideas for the game.
-
We also started making the basic skeleton of the game.
-
The team got to use a previous game to use it as a starting point in terms of mechanics and movements.
-
-
Some stuff that was included:
-
Textures
-
Creation of assets
-
Player movement code
-
Pulling and pushing mechanic code
-
Importing everything into Unity and GitHub
-
What did I do in this project?
Assigned role
Tester + Helper
-
Tesing for bugs - making sure it was running properly.
-
Whenever there was an issue with build or GitHub.
Level Design
Responsabilities
Second Milestone - Mar to Apr
-
Designing the layout of most levels.
-
Organizing and being the main head of decision making.
-
Implementing the level using the assets provided.
-
Managing the layout of each level and making sure that they're working properly.
Challenges?
-
During this phase, the team was busy dealing with other workload from classes so there wasn't much improvement from the game.
-
Most of the updates were for:
-
Visual effects
-
Adding more levels
-
Background music
-
Changing the look of some assets
-
AI Monster
-
Things Learned
Better project organization
Dealing with GitHub repository issues.
-
There were times where team members would use different versions of Unity or accidentally pushed changes but never pulled them first, causing previous changes to be overwritten.
-
Being able to organize my projects for better re-access and understanding where I left off.
Better understanding of scope
-
Knowing when and what could be cut out because of time constraints.
Dealing with time management.
-
It was hard to balance outside of school work alongside schoolwork and other parts of the daily life.
Plan ahead
-
Knowing what has to be done and when so last minute crunch-time doesn't happen.
bottom of page