Last four days

So the stress is really beginning to get to me, and I started this morning by making a list of things that have to be done still and sending that list to my project group.

Then.. Well, the rest of the day I was working on making the research report for our project report, and then I went to the elementary school for the last time to finish our research and QMI. It was quite a lot of fun, the kids were really enthusiastic and they really helped us out :) We finally gave them the candy sushi we'd made for them Thursday, and that was that.

We made an empathy map with them and showed them the game and the character and stuff.

Either way, today was really exhausting even if I didn't do too much.

It's a busy life

Soo, I haven't posted in the last few days, but that's really not because I've not been wanting to or because I've been forgetting about it. I haven't been posting in the last few days because I've been way too busy to post.

The last week has been really draining and I've been busy with school until I went to sleep almost all week. I finished the art I had to do, I finished my growth portfolio, I wrote my evaluations/prove for Sharing, I made sushi (candy) with a group member for the children that are helping us, I messed around a lot with sound for the game though I really didn't manage to make anything too nice.

And Thursday I finally just relaxed after school, whereas yesterday I went with a friend and group member to see a movie and it was a lot of fun. Either way, I've been really, really busy! But my part of the game is mainly done, though I'm supposed to do audio too.. But I can't open the file containing the stuff we've recorded and apparently making music is not my thing ;-;.

Either way I've been trying!

I've also done a SWOT-analyse of our game and made a list with questions for the teacher of the children and other people that are close to the children, so we know about their thoughts on the world of the children.

For this weekend, I'm planning on more work for my growth portfolio and sharing thing and working on our concept.. Wish me luck!

Tuesday is a good day

It really is though! No I mean, I've been pretty productive. I changed my clownfish so another member of our group could edit it, and then.. Then I started making the hair for the main character. That was quite a lot of work, though, because I did already have sketches but I needed to make the outlines in Illustrator and then color them with Paint Tool Sai. 

Either way, there are four different hair styles now, all in four different colours! And I made it so that the seahorse is actually kind of using it's fin to swim, though it doesn't look too good in my opinion but yeah it's what my group members wanted.

I also planned on coloring the male character today and starting on the ending scene with the 'date', in case the player won, but I didn't get to that yet because I promised myself to stop working for school after dinner and I had a headache.

.. Though I did do some more work, as I finished the growth portfolio part of last period and now I only need to finish the part of this period which is only really the CA of the PDCA-cyclus left. Check is only finished after the assessments though, and that's also really when I can finish the act part but I'll try anyway. 

Oh, and we had a meeting with the client today! They were actually really positive about our game, so yay! 

I hope we'll finish before the deadline ^^.

Lasttt two weeks

Soo it's really coming down to it now and we have to do a lot of things, but our scrum master didn't even do our sprint start meeting today and welp.
Anyway I did get to work immediately making fish, which I finished 3 and that's not a lot but it just took a long time and I'm not that good with illustrator though I'm slowly starting to learn how to use it. 
I made salmon, a clown fish and a sea horse

Look at that little fucker- it's completely just a basic cartoon seahorse but it's kind of adorable and also it moves its tail.

Either way we're really going to have to hurry up a lot the next few days or else we won't finish in time welp. I hope things work out.

Hello hello~

So I promised more consistent posts starting this week, huh? Which is totally going to be a thing- although it still won't be daily. That's mainly because my days are mostly spent drawing or creating things, and there's really not a lot to say about that, I guess? Therefore it's kind of useless to actually write daily, it'll only result in very small posts and I don't like those as much.

Either way, it's the last week before Christmas break, yay <3.

Yesterday I started making the characters for our game in illustrator, which is honestly very much frustrating. After that, everyone really left early because that's what people do on Mondays. We did do the daily scrum meeting, though, which was good :)!

Today I finished making the outlines of the characters, so now I just have to color them in and make different variations of the eyes/clothes/hair/skin. That's because the children want to have some choice in what character they're playing as, though.. Thinking about it now, it might be hard to actually program, seeing as the characters only come back after the cooking. So it'd be like: children choose colours, scenes are made in different colours, then depending on their choices and the way they cook (whether they succeed or not) the scenes will differ.

I have to start on the ending scenes, too, but that'll be for later I guess. Characters are more important, and after that I'll start on the scenes.

Soo, that's all

Let's see what tomorrow and Thursday bring! :)

This week

Soo.. My motivation kind of has totally disappeared, causing the lack of posts this week! But I'm going to try to pick it up again. Either way, let's go through the week..

Monday consisted of making an audioplan, the sprint start meeting and the sprint review meeting! It was quite useful, though we have yet to make the scrumboard on actual paper. We only have it digitally. There was also a lecture on actionscript :).

Tuesday we went into the studio and recorded all sounds, and I also made a QMI report on last Friday, because I went to the elementary school again with my teammate. The recording was pretty fun, actually! After that we went home.

Wednesday, or yesterday, I was feeling pretty bad so I didn't do too much. But I fixed writing down our concepting for the past two iterations, which is pretty much the first thing we've done for our documentation.. Oops.  After that there was another lecture on actionscript, and our stutor helped us with our POP's.

Today I stayed home because I was feeling really bad, but I did some drawing of the characters. My group probably won't agree with them and everything, but at least they can't say I didn't do anything.

That's all for this week! I'll write more elaborately again next week, I promise. After that.. CHRISTMAS BREAKKK <3.

The last two days

So, I've decided to start writing for multiple days so my entries don't get too short. This is because I haven't really been motivated lately because I haven't been feeling too well, and well.. Yeah, I just thought it was a good idea.

So yesterday I sketched some characters, and then we went to the museum. We went to this game exhibition, with all kind of concept arts and things for us to play. It was really fun, actually! I made loads of pictures, but yeah, pictures don't work on here:(.

After the museum we went to a lecture on concept art, which was pretty useful because it also taught us the equivalent of an elevator pitch for making a game (like it should have this kind of story this kind of atmosphere etc.). And then we went home!

Today mainly consisted of more sketching and wasn't all that useful, really.

It's still a short entry, but I tried. :(