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: For your final blog post, reflect on the questions above by pulling together your experiences as a game developer in your particular area of expertise, as a team member on your development team, a person in 2018 in the United States of America, and as a soon to be professional game developer. Your post …
Prompt: Reflecting on the Midmortem presentations and game selections, how do you feel? Did you game go forward or were different projects chosen by the class? What did you learn from the experience and how will you take this knowledge going forward? I thought the Midmortem presentations were for the most part interesting, and I …
Prompt: Look back at a particularly challenging week, what went well? What could have been better? How could you have personally affected the outcome in a positive way? What would you do differently if you could? The most challenging week we had was the week before midmortem. I think it was particularly hard because we …
Prompt: Consider your strongest prototyping week? What made it so successful? Consider not just the concept but the team’s contributions, reaction to feedback, and more Our strongest prototyping week was the third and last one. I think the prototype was the most ambitious by far but it was also something that I really bought into …
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.