This is a personal reflection on Production class at Champlain College and the Frog Bath’s team process. The first thing that went well about my development process is taking control of the repository. In a previous post I detailed some of the problems about the team repository and how completely unorganized it was. We were …
This Sprint I learned another important lesson about collaboration, repository management, and maybe DevOps. That lesson is people don’t listen. We needed to rename the entire project for some networking reason which meant completely reorganizing the file structure. Our brilliant solution was to do it at the end of the sprint, have everyone delete their …
This sprint we got to actually tackle some of our tech debt. It was originally generated from quickly prototyping the project, and using blueprints. While blueprints are great for getting an idea implemented quickly, they are also the closest thing to pure spaghetti code I’ve ever had the misfortune of working with. To clean up …
This week was mostly about trying out our new git workflow which went surprisingly well. I didn’t personally have to resolve any merge conflicts which would have been more or less impossible because most of the files are binary. I also met with a couple teachers to discuss our workflow and art pipeline. Both teachers …
This is the start of a series of blog posts about onboarding onto a new game: Frog Bath. Described by our lead designer ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/leonardo-robles-gonzalez/ ) “A couch-competitive “Capture-The-Soap” platformer that offers an approachable, frog-like movement system with nuances to allow for mastery over the game’s mechanics. Players control cute frogs obsessed with hygiene and …
Prompt: As a game developer, where am you now? What have you accomplished and what are your greatest strengths? What do you want to do next to keep growing? As a game programmer I’m still pretty much a generalist, although I’m definitely leaning towards tools and graphics programming. I like making things to help people …
Over the rest of the year I will be writing a series of posts reflecting on my experience in the Production Two class at Champlain College.