Today has been a day of mixed progress on my various projects. Like I have said in previous posts I have spent the majority of the day focused on work for my business modules. Thankfully I have managed to squeeze some time in for work on both the Time Travel Game and Superman: Man of Steel.
Time Travel Game
I talked to my tutor about the problems I was having with getting the UDK prototype for the game working. After a brief chat I came away from it feeling better. It is not going to be heavily weighted compared to the rest of the project and is their mainly to show I can understand and attempt to turn the theoretical design of the game into some form of reality. Even if it is very rough and hardly working! So I am not as worried about it currently. The plan now is to spend some time over the weekend looking up how to solve the problems I am having with it and to really try and get it in a working state during next week.
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On the Wiki side of things I have been having a few problems which are really not welcome at this point in the project. For some reason the Wiki is running incredibly slowly 99% of the time. At first I thought it was optimisation issues but it seems to be a problem across Edit.info wikis. It has slowed production on the Wiki to a crawl today which has been really disappointing. I did manage to eventually get all the pages for the Key Information section finished, edited and presentable though so there’s a good point!
I think from tomorrow onwards rather than writing things up directly onto the Wiki I will the written side of the content on Pages first and then copy it into the Wiki and format it in large chunks. It may even increase my productivity, you never know!
Still it is a tad annoying that this is happening right at the time that it will be seeing an increased amount of traffic as many people head there to mark and read it. I think I am going to have to put a disclaimer on my submission form to say people could be waiting 2-10 minutes for pages to load! The other option is to create a back up of the material featured in the Wiki in a program like Pages or Word. But that kind of defeats the point of having the Wiki in the first place!
Superman: Man of Steel
I have only managed to get a small amount of work done on the game today. While I haven’t had the chance to add anymore to the visual document I did manage to finish of the cards that will make up the player deck.
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Along with getting all the character cards for the enemies featured in the prototype ready to be filled in:
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I would say I am pretty much 3/4 of the way there with the prototype now which is amazing because I thought it was going to take a lot longer to produce. All I have left to do is the following:
- Filling out the villain character cards
- Make the power cards
- Make the events deck
- Make the tokens
- Spruce up the map tiles
If I put my mind to it I am certain I can get all of that done in an afternoon. After that it is just a case of printing it all out and putting it together which shouldn’t take to long especially since I snagged a laminator for cheap at ASDA today. (It was £8!) So my aim is to get it all done and dusted by the end of Monday which will then give me the rest of the time I have left to finish off the Visual Design Document and get the Wiki for the Time Travel Game finished and hopefully running smoothly!
Also don’t think I have forgotten about the prototype for Hunters of the New Dawn! Even though it is now on a rather small scale compared to the Superman: Man of Steel one (my how the table have turned!) I am still working on it in the background with the plan to start actually making and putting it together next Wednesday.
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