Welcome to Patrick Cole’s Personal Production Journal

Week 1 - Week 2

Patrick Cole, PPJ 1

Tasks:

  1. Help flesh out the story board and write details about the levels: 2 hours

  2. Team meetings: 5 Hours

Total hours: 7

Positive: I am excited to be working on Momentum. I really like the idea and love where we are taking the story.

Negative: The meetings were LONG and it felt hard to take in so much information at one time, and the programming aspects of the game are kind of complicated.

Upcoming: We plan to continue working on AI for the enemies and also finding better ways to populate enemies and generate levels. I also plan to continue to flesh out the story.

Week 2 - Week 3

Patrick Cole, PPJ 2

Tasks:

  1. Fix Enemy Attack after death: 2 hours

  2. Fix enemy movement bug: 5 hours (Blocked)

  3. Team meetings (Overall/AI): 4 Hours

Total hours: 11

Positive: Fixing the enemy attacking after death was a relatively easy fix, also it gave me a better understanding of the flow of the turn based systems in place.

Negative: After seeing the code, I nearly had a heart attack. Some aspects of things are programmed decently but when it came to how movement is handled it quickly became an issue. We will be dealing with this for a while most likely.

Upcoming: We plan to continue working on AI for the enemies and also finding better ways to populate enemies and generate levels. Lot of bugs to fix.

Week 3 - Week 4

Patrick Cole, PPJ 3

Week 4 - Week 5

Patrick Cole, PPJ 4 Tasks:

  1. Create a Particle System Prefab: 6 hours

Total hours: 6

Positive: The prefab is going to help us a lot in making some cool looking effects.

Negative: Rotations in unity suck. Doing normal rotations adds angles. I had to find out about local rotation with the help of Jack.

Upcoming: We plan to continue adding to the Particle System Script to make new effects.

Week 5 - Week 6

Patrick Cole, PPJ 5

N/A due to unexepected circumstances.

Week 6 - Week 7

Patrick Cole, PPJ 6

N/A due to unexepected circumstances.

Week 7 - Week 8

Patrick Cole, PPJ 7

Task:

  1. Add Win/Lose Screen Images with correct anchoring
  2. Fixed other scene anchoring with Chris

Total Hours: 3

Positives: I understand how canvases work now, they are easy once you know to make them stretch to screen size :)

Negatives: I’m still sick and so I was unable to get the original task I was assigned done.

Upcoming: We are working on cleaning and polishing.

Week 8 - Week 9

Patrick Cole, PPJ 8

Task:

  1. Create Lab Level 1 and Lab Level 2

Total Hours: 3

Positives: Creating levels was fun and once I got the hang of making the first one the second one was way easier.

Negatives: There is a definite learning curve to making a level.

Upcoming: We are working on cleaning and polishing and adding more levels

Week 9 - Week 10

Patrick Cole, PPJ 9

Task:

  1. Run Playtests

Total Hours: 3

Positives: Ran a lot of play tests. Negatives: None

Upcoming: Finishing up, polishing stuff.

Week 10 - Finals Week

Patrick Cole, PPJ 9