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

Daniel Fairchild
May 4, 20202 min read


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...

Daniel Fairchild
Apr 30, 20201 min read


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...

Daniel Fairchild
Apr 24, 20201 min read


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...

Daniel Fairchild
Apr 17, 20201 min read


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...

Daniel Fairchild
Apr 12, 20201 min read


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...

Daniel Fairchild
Apr 3, 20201 min read
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...

Daniel Fairchild
Mar 27, 20201 min read


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...

Daniel Fairchild
Mar 27, 20203 min read


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...

Daniel Fairchild
Mar 19, 20201 min read
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...

Daniel Fairchild
Mar 13, 20202 min read


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...

Daniel Fairchild
Mar 6, 20202 min read


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...

Daniel Fairchild
Feb 29, 20202 min read


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...

Daniel Fairchild
Feb 28, 20201 min read


Mechanics implementation 2
This week I continued implementing mechanics into the levels. Fallen tree which is disintegrated using the Flamebugs, to allow the player...

Daniel Fairchild
Feb 21, 20201 min read


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...

Daniel Fairchild
Feb 14, 20201 min read


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...

Daniel Fairchild
Feb 7, 20201 min read


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

Daniel Fairchild
Feb 7, 20201 min read


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...

Daniel Fairchild
Jan 30, 20201 min read


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...

Daniel Fairchild
Jan 24, 20201 min read


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...

Daniel Fairchild
Jan 24, 20202 min read
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