Week 6 Day 1

Today I got our new background. The old one looked terrible. I went through about 4 before I got one that I liked. I'm quite pleased with the result. I also spent a majority of the time sketching out the tourists. I have all but, the final one. the last one is going to be a female of some sort. Jesse gave me a list of required assets that he needs done. Otherwise everything is fine. I should get it done in time. I wish he could set up game play soon cause that is going to be the biggest problem. I feel like he spent too much time on appearance. Jesse told me he wanted me to do a credit of some sort, so I went and did that. I think it turned out alright.

Week 5 Day 2

Today I was asked to make some of the planets that are needed. I did some of them but, not as many as expected. I started to work on the tourists instead because it's probably going to take more effort to draw people rather than planets. So after working on that for a bit I pretty much ended up finishing the first one. I can use this one tourist and just switch out colors and be fine. I might to two other models so that way it looks more diverse. One model might get boring. Last night I discovered something that saddens me slightly. My computer is a windows 8 and the drawing tablet that the school is letting me borrow only has compatible drivers for windows 7 and back. This means that I cannot use it on my computer to it's fullest power. I'm thinking of getting my own drawing tablet but, that won't help me later due to the fact that I won't have the class anymore. The point of getting it is because I now have a budding interest in digital drawing thanks to this class. I'm really pleased with this. The more I learn from online tutorials the more I'm getting into it. I still do better drawings on paper, but I'm making progress regardless. Anyways, work isn't going to bad for this project, I'm mostly worried that jesse won't be finished coding by the time we need to do testing. Cause we really need to do that in the digital version not just with the physical prototype. Also I still don't know how I'm going to pull off mining planets. I mean it really just doesn't click for me. I'm probably going to use textures for them rather than using a custom paint job. I don't know I'll figure it out. tomorrow will probably be better.

Week 5 Day 1

Ok so today was another planets day. I have to make combos of all the planets that I had made so that means that in total I have to make 10 based off of the original 5. Also I have to make "mine planets" Jesse told me to make them more, "plentiful". I honestly don't know what to do about that considering I have a planet that is litterally just water. How do you make water look like it has more water? Sometimes I just look at jesse and think "why you do dis?" Anyways I also made some people that are need over the weekend but, I'm worried that they aren't up to par. I decided that if they are going to be on the gameboard that I need to give them backgrounds. I plan to finish the rest of the planets during study hall tomorrow and the tourists should be done soon. I have to finish the ships as well but, we'll see where that goes. Otherwise I think the art should be done soon. I also should be working on sounds, but that should be easy. I honestly feel like I made good progress today hopefully I can keep this pace.

Week 4 day 2

I was sick on Tuesday so I missed that last blog post, but I'm here today. Today Jesse told me to work on the planets because it was of vital importance. So I went and did those. It was pretty easy. I was able to use textures on some of them and others were custom made. The copper planet was the hardest due to the fact that it's not really flat like the other planets. It kinda ended up the same though. Also I noticed a big thing with using a 2d rectangle on a sphere and that is that the ends must match or a noticeable seam pops up. For the most part you just need to make sure that it looks seamless then everything is fine.
Now on to what I need to do. Jesse wants me to do a background so that is my next goal. I'm probably going to also work on some of the sounds. I'm not quite sure what he wants so I'm going to get things that look (sound ha) at least helpful in general. Otherwise I'm going to go back to where most of the work is which is the ships. Hopefully I can manage to get all of them done in time or we will stick with just one ship which I have finished in class last week I'm pretty sure. I feel like I'm finally making progress so let us go ONWARD!