FireFly Development

A series of blog posts breaking down the production of the game FireFly

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Daniel Fairchild

May 4, 2020
2 min

Project finish and review

This week I QA tested the game to search for bugs and see that all the systems were working. Everything was working but I found a few...

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Daniel Fairchild

Apr 30, 2020
1 min

Main Menu and bug fixing

This week I finished off creating the main menu for the game did bug fixing on the game. For the main menu we initally just wanted a 2D...

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Daniel Fairchild

Apr 24, 2020
1 min

UI asset implementation

This week I implemented UI assets into the UI systems, replacing button backgrounds, adding font to text and adding game logo. Main menu...

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Daniel Fairchild

Apr 17, 2020
1 min

Polishing

This week I finished off making maze 2, assisting in adding the landscape floor and path, laying out of lamps and setting up of character...

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Daniel Fairchild

Apr 12, 2020
1 min

Maze 2 wall implementation

This week I implemented the draft walls into maze 2. This process took a couple of days as the maze is very big but it looks really good...

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Daniel Fairchild

Apr 3, 2020
1 min

Implementing Frog

This week I implemented the frog made by Bart and Sandra. I had already made the code for the frog before so this process was just...

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Daniel Fairchild

Mar 27, 2020
1 min

Covid-19

This week the university was shut down due to Covid-19. This meant the team could not meet in person anymore. However, this did not...

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Daniel Fairchild

Mar 27, 2020
3 min

Character Set up and scene polishing

This week I did not replace the greybox for the second maze I had to do other tasks. The main task was implementing the character models...

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Daniel Fairchild

Mar 19, 2020
1 min

Replacing greybox maze 1

This week I replaced the greybox to maze one using pieces made by one of the modelling team. The pieces included a straight piece and a...

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Daniel Fairchild

Mar 13, 2020
2 min

Analysis of time management

This week I did no work on the project due to other commitments getting in the way of this project. So for this week I decided to do a...

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Daniel Fairchild

Mar 6, 2020
2 min

UI Implementation

This week I implemented the games main UI system. This consisted of an inventory on the player's heads up display (HUD) and icons on...

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Daniel Fairchild

Feb 29, 2020
2 min

Analyzing Gamer Designer Portfolios

This week I am also analyzing 3 of gamer designer portfolios so that I can improve my portfolio and present my work using industry...

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Daniel Fairchild

Feb 28, 2020
1 min

Path laying out

This week I laid out the path in maze 2, this took a while to do but made the maze look really good. I also discussed with the team on...

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Daniel Fairchild

Feb 21, 2020
1 min

Mechanics implementation 2

This week I continued implementing mechanics into the levels. Fallen tree which is disintegrated using the Flamebugs, to allow the player...

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Daniel Fairchild

Feb 14, 2020
1 min

Mechanics implementation 1

This week I started implementing mechanics in the levels such as the tree stumps, the doors and the random generation of flowers. These...

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Daniel Fairchild

Feb 7, 2020
1 min

Grey box maze 2

This week I took the maze design I did last week and grey boxed it in engine. This time I used the same workflow as the third version of...

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Daniel Fairchild

Feb 7, 2020
1 min

Notion

This week transitioned from the use of Trello as our project management website to another website, Notion. Notion has similar...

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Daniel Fairchild

Jan 30, 2020
1 min

Maze 2 design

This week I designed the second maze, this will be the medium difficulty maze with the previous being the easy one. This beat my deadline...

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Daniel Fairchild

Jan 24, 2020
1 min

Grey boxing first maze

This week I spent time taking the first level 2D level design and making a grey box from it. At first thought I could grey box it from...

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Daniel Fairchild

Jan 24, 2020
2 min

NHS Pre-Production Planning

For the NHS project I set the team a series of milestones. Modelling team: Have basic models done by Feb 17 Intractable assets done by...

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