Hello all!
You guys are such stars.. thanks so much for all the help and the effort you put in! Was amazing working with you all =)
Kate, last night was brilliant. Hats off to you!
Hope all of you had fun as well.
All the best for your pitches and more importantly, the minor!
Rock on,
James and Aarthi
Friday, May 18, 2007
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
IMPORTANT: Thursday's plan!
Morning!
This is to reconfirm today's meeting with Jeremy at 3 PM today at the
studio. This is a feedback session that everyone compulsorily needs to
attend. So please be there =)
Also, we need everyone to help us out tomorrow in setting up the
place. We've been given three hours in the morning to set up. Between
9:30 AM and 12:30 PM. We've got to finish by then because the bar
opens at 1:00 PM.
Here's whats been delegated to you =)
Incharge of Projector 1: SHREYAS (Incharge during the launch as well)
Incharge of Projector 2: KENNETH (Incharge during the launch as well)
Incharge of Projector 3: ESKI (Incharge during the launch as well)
Computer 1 and 2: ISAAC (Incharge during the launch as well)
PETER (Transportation)
RAY (Transportation)
SHELLEY (during the launch)
Computer 3 and 4: MING (Incharge during the launch as well)
PREET (Transportation)
ADA (Transportation)
ALAN (during the launch)
Bar Tab Ticketing: CHERRY (You would have to help Kate hand out bar tab tickets)
JOYCE
Gaming: Help people play the game -if needed- during the launch
PJ
REECE
Navigation: MIKE
AMY
MC: KATE
Door: You can take turns!
KATE
EMILY BISSLAND
CORDELIA
The following people would have to ensure that things are run
smoothly, even in terms of catering.
MOON SUN
EMILY DAY
LEE
TONY
The folowing people would have to come in at 9:30 AM tomorrow to
transport equipment, and rehearse at The Order:
Shreyas
Kenneth
Peter
Ray
Preet
Ada
Mike
Amy
Paul
NOTE: Those who are incharge of transportation should make sure the
equipment is brought back after the launch as well. Remember you are
responsible for the equipment!
Thanks so much guys!
All of you have done such a great job.. And hats off to the Engine
team for making it all possible!
Cheers,
Aarthi and James
ps. If I have have missed out on anyone, I'm sorry. Please let me know!
This is to reconfirm today's meeting with Jeremy at 3 PM today at the
studio. This is a feedback session that everyone compulsorily needs to
attend. So please be there =)
Also, we need everyone to help us out tomorrow in setting up the
place. We've been given three hours in the morning to set up. Between
9:30 AM and 12:30 PM. We've got to finish by then because the bar
opens at 1:00 PM.
Here's whats been delegated to you =)
Incharge of Projector 1: SHREYAS (Incharge during the launch as well)
Incharge of Projector 2: KENNETH (Incharge during the launch as well)
Incharge of Projector 3: ESKI (Incharge during the launch as well)
Computer 1 and 2: ISAAC (Incharge during the launch as well)
PETER (Transportation)
RAY (Transportation)
SHELLEY (during the launch)
Computer 3 and 4: MING (Incharge during the launch as well)
PREET (Transportation)
ADA (Transportation)
ALAN (during the launch)
Bar Tab Ticketing: CHERRY (You would have to help Kate hand out bar tab tickets)
JOYCE
Gaming: Help people play the game -if needed- during the launch
PJ
REECE
Navigation: MIKE
AMY
MC: KATE
Door: You can take turns!
KATE
EMILY BISSLAND
CORDELIA
The following people would have to ensure that things are run
smoothly, even in terms of catering.
MOON SUN
EMILY DAY
LEE
TONY
The folowing people would have to come in at 9:30 AM tomorrow to
transport equipment, and rehearse at The Order:
Shreyas
Kenneth
Peter
Ray
Preet
Ada
Mike
Amy
Paul
NOTE: Those who are incharge of transportation should make sure the
equipment is brought back after the launch as well. Remember you are
responsible for the equipment!
Thanks so much guys!
All of you have done such a great job.. And hats off to the Engine
team for making it all possible!
Cheers,
Aarthi and James
ps. If I have have missed out on anyone, I'm sorry. Please let me know!
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Jeremy wants to talk to us!
Hey guys!
A quick mail to say that Jeremy wants to have a group talk.. with all of us present there! So please be there tomorrow (May 16) afternoon at 3PM to meet and catch up with him!
See you all there!
Aarthi
A quick mail to say that Jeremy wants to have a group talk.. with all of us present there! So please be there tomorrow (May 16) afternoon at 3PM to meet and catch up with him!
See you all there!
Aarthi
Monday, May 14, 2007
Urgent Call!
Hey Production Team!
There are some important tweaks to be done tomorrow.. so we need you
all of you to come in at 9 AM to help the Engine team out. Please make
sure you're here then! These hours will surely be taken into account
for you to complete your hours!
Thanks =) seeya tomorrow!
Aarthi
There are some important tweaks to be done tomorrow.. so we need you
all of you to come in at 9 AM to help the Engine team out. Please make
sure you're here then! These hours will surely be taken into account
for you to complete your hours!
Thanks =) seeya tomorrow!
Aarthi
We're on RRR!
Hey guys!
Kate has organised for a live studio interview on RRR on Wednesday, May 16 at 7.15pm! Paul, James and Kate would be on air! Check 'em out =)
Cheers,
Aarthi
Kate has organised for a live studio interview on RRR on Wednesday, May 16 at 7.15pm! Paul, James and Kate would be on air! Check 'em out =)
Cheers,
Aarthi
We're live on selectparks.net
Hey guys!
Check this out =)
http://www.selectparks.net/
Isn't Kate awesome?!
Aarthi
Check this out =)
http://www.selectparks.net/
Isn't Kate awesome?!
Aarthi
Our website is up!
Hello there =)
Check out the Terra Transeo website..
http://aim.adc.rmit.edu.au/students2007/terratranseo/
A job well done, Shelley!
Cheers,
James and Aarthi
Check out the Terra Transeo website..
http://aim.adc.rmit.edu.au/students2007/terratranseo/
A job well done, Shelley!
Cheers,
James and Aarthi
Friday, May 11, 2007
Kate's Update!
Hey guys!
Just to keep you all posted on the marketing side of things.. what Kate has been upto and what we're doing!
We're getting CDs printed by Cinevision. If we can get it to them Monday evening, great, but they know it will most likely be Tuesday morning, first thing, master copy and artwork, and they will be ready Thursday afternoon.
Posters will be put up from Monday evening on!
We've heard back from Chris Dodds at Selectparks - he is able to attend and is happy to organise a post on the selectparks website for us, once our website is up and running (so next week basically). He is also going to post details of the launch.
Kate got an email back from the Talks editor at RRR - she has put us forward to some of the broadcasters but hasn't heard anything back yet. She will be in touch with us again early next week.
We're in talks with RMITV, they may film our launch for us - do we want this?! Guess its fine!
ACMI is unable to exhibit our game in the games lab, logistically not possible, but Helen Stuckey is able to attend the launch.
However, Experimedia is very interested to do something with us, but it won't be until the second half of the year - Indra is unable to attend the launch due to other engagement.
Finally, we heard back from the series producer of Good Game (ABC2 digital show). She said they already have their show for Monday 15th, but wanted to know where the launch was. We sent her an invitation, gave her lots more details about the game, gave links to the website and blog, and also asked her if we could be featured on a later show, and if RMITV filmed the event could they use it?!
Thats it from her side.. she's doing an aweosme job, isnt she!?
I guess I'll see you guys around.. soon =) all fine out here! Its looking great.. and we're down to ironing out a few issues!
Cheers,
Aarthi
ps. Toshi, the animations work fine now =) thanks so much!
Just to keep you all posted on the marketing side of things.. what Kate has been upto and what we're doing!
We're getting CDs printed by Cinevision. If we can get it to them Monday evening, great, but they know it will most likely be Tuesday morning, first thing, master copy and artwork, and they will be ready Thursday afternoon.
Posters will be put up from Monday evening on!
We've heard back from Chris Dodds at Selectparks - he is able to attend and is happy to organise a post on the selectparks website for us, once our website is up and running (so next week basically). He is also going to post details of the launch.
Kate got an email back from the Talks editor at RRR - she has put us forward to some of the broadcasters but hasn't heard anything back yet. She will be in touch with us again early next week.
We're in talks with RMITV, they may film our launch for us - do we want this?! Guess its fine!
ACMI is unable to exhibit our game in the games lab, logistically not possible, but Helen Stuckey is able to attend the launch.
However, Experimedia is very interested to do something with us, but it won't be until the second half of the year - Indra is unable to attend the launch due to other engagement.
Finally, we heard back from the series producer of Good Game (ABC2 digital show). She said they already have their show for Monday 15th, but wanted to know where the launch was. We sent her an invitation, gave her lots more details about the game, gave links to the website and blog, and also asked her if we could be featured on a later show, and if RMITV filmed the event could they use it?!
Thats it from her side.. she's doing an aweosme job, isnt she!?
I guess I'll see you guys around.. soon =) all fine out here! Its looking great.. and we're down to ironing out a few issues!
Cheers,
Aarthi
ps. Toshi, the animations work fine now =) thanks so much!
Its almost there!
Hello everybody!
As you all know, we're almost there! The Production team finishes off today.. and they've already given all the meshes and textures to the Engine, who've assembled everything. And are putting in the gameplay elements. Its all looking great! Kudos to you guys..
There would be a meeting at 11:30 AM on Monday - the final day of production! what a big sigh of satisfaction?! =) Everyone is expected to come, as we need to talk about our Thursday night launch plans!
Also, as most of you in the Concept and Production team have not fullfilled the complete 108 hours (the assessment requirement) small tasks would be delegated to you from Monday to Friday to help Kate, James and me.. with arrangements at the venue, poster-runs, CD writing runs, etc. Please check the Timesheets Log Book to see the total number of hours you've done through the production (I've tallied hours worked until Wednesday).
AND those of who want to test out the game, please feel free to do so on the two Macs set up next to the back exit of the studio!!
Cheers,
Aarthi
ps. Please email me screenshots of your work to be blogged and uploaded to the website! Thanks..
As you all know, we're almost there! The Production team finishes off today.. and they've already given all the meshes and textures to the Engine, who've assembled everything. And are putting in the gameplay elements. Its all looking great! Kudos to you guys..
There would be a meeting at 11:30 AM on Monday - the final day of production! what a big sigh of satisfaction?! =) Everyone is expected to come, as we need to talk about our Thursday night launch plans!
Also, as most of you in the Concept and Production team have not fullfilled the complete 108 hours (the assessment requirement) small tasks would be delegated to you from Monday to Friday to help Kate, James and me.. with arrangements at the venue, poster-runs, CD writing runs, etc. Please check the Timesheets Log Book to see the total number of hours you've done through the production (I've tallied hours worked until Wednesday).
AND those of who want to test out the game, please feel free to do so on the two Macs set up next to the back exit of the studio!!
Cheers,
Aarthi
ps. Please email me screenshots of your work to be blogged and uploaded to the website! Thanks..
Sunday, May 6, 2007
No excuses this time!
Hello all!
Just a quick note to say please keep yourself free on May 15th in the evening! As you all know, we've reached the last stages of our project.. and its been amazing, every bit of it. Check the blog for some of the work thats been done until last Thursday. http://terratranseo.blogspot.com
As you all know, we finish on the 14th of May (Monday) and we're having a get-together on the 15th of May to celebrate its completion =)
We'll be meeting up at the studio at 6 PM to have a go at the game (if you haven't done it by then!) and then head to Bimbo's on Brunswick St. (Fitzroy) for $4 pizzas and beer!
See you all on Monday!
Cheers,
James and Aarthi
ps. Those of you who werent around for Thursday's photo session, your last chance is Tuesday morning at 10:30 AM. Otherwise we'd have to put up your mugshots from day one!
Lok, Way and Lewis, Tuesday morning 10:30 AM suits you guys?
pps. Andy, Laura and Toshi: We would love to get your photos as well =) Say Wednesday night when we meet up for the meeting? How does that sound?
Just a quick note to say please keep yourself free on May 15th in the evening! As you all know, we've reached the last stages of our project.. and its been amazing, every bit of it. Check the blog for some of the work thats been done until last Thursday. http://terratranseo.blogspot.com
As you all know, we finish on the 14th of May (Monday) and we're having a get-together on the 15th of May to celebrate its completion =)
We'll be meeting up at the studio at 6 PM to have a go at the game (if you haven't done it by then!) and then head to Bimbo's on Brunswick St. (Fitzroy) for $4 pizzas and beer!
See you all on Monday!
Cheers,
James and Aarthi
ps. Those of you who werent around for Thursday's photo session, your last chance is Tuesday morning at 10:30 AM. Otherwise we'd have to put up your mugshots from day one!
Lok, Way and Lewis, Tuesday morning 10:30 AM suits you guys?
pps. Andy, Laura and Toshi: We would love to get your photos as well =) Say Wednesday night when we meet up for the meeting? How does that sound?
Friday, May 4, 2007
Our Logo!!
This was done by Connor Parker, who was here as a work-ex student! He's done an awesome job.. in the time he's been here!
Thursday, May 3, 2007
Terra Transeo Update + Photo Shoot!
Hey guys!
We intend to have a photo shoot tomorrow at 11 AM as informed earlier! Umm... so please do bring in plain coloured collared shirt with you! If you're not there, we'd be forced to put up those mug shots (remember the ones on the white board?!) in the game!
Everything seems to be going great with the production team and the engine team.. they seem to be pumping out stuff everyday!
We've got the terrain for the city and the forest done with.. Cordelia and Gerard have done a great job! Thanks to John Power.. he's like a whiz kid! A great source of support to us we must say!
On the Sound front, we have a meeting tomorrow with them at 4.30 PM. They seem to be having a great time as well. They're providing us a few souonds tomorrow to tet out and then giving us sounds over a few days until next Wednesday, so that we dont overwhelm the Engine team with work.
We also intend to start importing the finished pieces into the engine from tomorrow on!
The best bit of news that we had today was we've finally decided on a place for our launch! Its called the Order of Melbourne and we've got it for free! You can check it out at http://www.theorder.com.au/
We've also had Jeremy's nephew working for a week with us... he's awesome! He's done some of the artwork for us. Especially the logo! Its looking great.
Check out our blog tonight for more of the artwork, logo, etc.
Don't forget tomorrow.. Be there or be square!
The Producers
ps. Sorry for being slack about the blog over the last week.
We intend to have a photo shoot tomorrow at 11 AM as informed earlier! Umm... so please do bring in plain coloured collared shirt with you! If you're not there, we'd be forced to put up those mug shots (remember the ones on the white board?!) in the game!
Everything seems to be going great with the production team and the engine team.. they seem to be pumping out stuff everyday!
We've got the terrain for the city and the forest done with.. Cordelia and Gerard have done a great job! Thanks to John Power.. he's like a whiz kid! A great source of support to us we must say!
On the Sound front, we have a meeting tomorrow with them at 4.30 PM. They seem to be having a great time as well. They're providing us a few souonds tomorrow to tet out and then giving us sounds over a few days until next Wednesday, so that we dont overwhelm the Engine team with work.
We also intend to start importing the finished pieces into the engine from tomorrow on!
The best bit of news that we had today was we've finally decided on a place for our launch! Its called the Order of Melbourne and we've got it for free! You can check it out at http://www.theorder.com.au/
We've also had Jeremy's nephew working for a week with us... he's awesome! He's done some of the artwork for us. Especially the logo! Its looking great.
Check out our blog tonight for more of the artwork, logo, etc.
Don't forget tomorrow.. Be there or be square!
The Producers
ps. Sorry for being slack about the blog over the last week.
Monday, April 30, 2007
Production Update!
Hello all =)
What a wonderful day its turned out to be?! Things are going great now.. Kudos to the Engine team.. they've worked out almost all the concepts that we needed tested out! And have got them running! AND they've built a prototype of the city with the actual layout and its looking great! Congrats Gerard.. good job!
The Production team have finished modelling the characters.. Kenneths been amazing! and we are going to have them mapped by Isaac and Tony tomorrow so that MoonSun and Peter start off animating tomorrow afternoon..
We're thinking of getting all the basics done by Friday night so that we can import everything into the Engine on Monday morning and then tweak everything from then on for a week! Everythings been worked out in terms of who's doing what in the city.. so hope its all clear to you guys! Please do ask us if you need help!
The Production team is again meeting at 9 AM tomorrow to finalise the work on the island!
Thats it for now! Cheers guys..
More later!
The Producers
What a wonderful day its turned out to be?! Things are going great now.. Kudos to the Engine team.. they've worked out almost all the concepts that we needed tested out! And have got them running! AND they've built a prototype of the city with the actual layout and its looking great! Congrats Gerard.. good job!
The Production team have finished modelling the characters.. Kenneths been amazing! and we are going to have them mapped by Isaac and Tony tomorrow so that MoonSun and Peter start off animating tomorrow afternoon..
We're thinking of getting all the basics done by Friday night so that we can import everything into the Engine on Monday morning and then tweak everything from then on for a week! Everythings been worked out in terms of who's doing what in the city.. so hope its all clear to you guys! Please do ask us if you need help!
The Production team is again meeting at 9 AM tomorrow to finalise the work on the island!
Thats it for now! Cheers guys..
More later!
The Producers
Saturday, April 28, 2007
Production Team - File Management
Hi all,
I'd like to round up topics from our last meeting since there are many things to remember, and also some additional details.
1. Submit files to team leader for backing up by 5.00pm everyday. Keep the back up files with you too.
2. A model need to have 1 version of seperate objects and 1 version of combined objects (if it has more than 1 object) Please read the note about how to prepare your Maya model to Unreal at the end of this mail.
3. After a model is finished (combined), it will be save in 2 versions:
1) Triangulated for testing in UT (TT_PModel_buildingOrangeTri_v001_TT.ma)
2) 4 sides polygon for unwrap UV (TT_PModel_buildingOrange_v010_TT.ma because it's not final yet ).
When it's in the unwrap process by texturer, the file will be save as: TT_PTexture_buildingOrange_v001_AS.ma
After finishing unwrap UV, the model will be sent back to modeler again to triangulate, save as final version and put into final folder .
Note:The file name of a uv snapshot(unwrapped uv) will be: TT_PTexture_buildingOrange_UV_v001_TT.jpg save it in working files>>UV folder
4. Modeller has to make a dummy targa file(image map of a material) to apply to the model and name it according to the model file name. Save it in the final folder of its catagory on Terra server. Here is the example:
TT_PModel_buildingOrange_v001_TT.ma ---> model file name
TT_PTexture_buildingOrange_vFinal_AS.tga ---> dummy targa file name (mean that it's known who will do this texture)
In case of 1 model has more than 1 material on it, different materials (and mostly different textures) have to be applied on the model. For example, a building with brick(wall), glass(roof) and wood(floor) needs 3 materials. To make it easier for texture team to know which faces are which material, the dummy targa files should be solid color images. This is how the dummy targa names will be:
TT_PModel_buildingOrange_v001_TT.ma ---> model file name
TT_PTexture_buildingOrange_wall_vFinal_AS.tga ---> dummy targa file name
TT_PTexture_buildingOrange_roof_vFinal_AS.tga ---> dummy targa file name
TT_PTexture_buildingOrange_floor_vFinal_AS.tga ---> dummy targa file name
or it'd be defined by level so the file name'd be: TT_PTexture_buildingOrange_level1_vFinal_AS.tga ---> dummy targa file name
Texturer will name a texture file by following the dummy targa file name, but change from "vFinal" to "v001". Once the final texture is done, just replace the dummy file . This way the model will not have missing image file problem.
5. Final folder is only for final files. If you have the new final file, you have to put the old final file to the working files folder and rename it to a version.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
how to prepare your Maya model to Unreal
In Maya, go to Display>>Grid>>option box and change to this settings
Length and width : 1024
Grid line every: 16
Subdivisions: 1
also go to every camera attribute and change Far Clip Plane:4000
The following is from unreal wiki.
Your Model
1. Should be "facing positive X". Meaning, in Maya, the model's front side should be toward the positive end of the X-axis. This will ensure a proper orientation in Ued.
2. Should be near the origin. Meaning, in Maya, the model's center should be on or near Maya's world origin, where all axis converge at zero.
3. Should have its Center pivot placed in a reasonable place. For example, a wheel would likely need the center pivot in the middle, while an hammer may need the center to be along the handle somewhere. It depends on if this is meant to be used as a mover, how it should move, or how it should be normally placed as a static mesh object in UnrealEd.
4. Should be one single object, not multiple objects placed together (unless you want them to be separate in UnrealEd). Use Polygon → Combine. Merge any extraneous faces, edges and vertices.
5. Should have the normals facing the correct direction. Use Display → PolygonComponents → Normals to see which direction your polygonal faces are "facing".
6. Should have different materials (shaders) applied to the polygonal faces that are meant to have different materials textures applied in UnrealEd. For example, you are making a car. You chassis has a texture all its own, but you want to use a simple glass material for the windshield. In this case, in Maya, you'd apply one color (material, shader) to the chassis and another color for the windshield. It doesn't matter what color, it's just an indicator to UnrealEd that these are separate materials that you'll apply in UnrealEd.
7. Should have its polygon texture alignment ready to go. Use the tools found in EditPolygons → Texture → ... to apply various projection schemes (like cylindrical, planar or automatic) and adjust the scale and orientation of those projections, if applicable.
Thx for reading,
Cherry ^_^
I'd like to round up topics from our last meeting since there are many things to remember, and also some additional details.
1. Submit files to team leader for backing up by 5.00pm everyday. Keep the back up files with you too.
2. A model need to have 1 version of seperate objects and 1 version of combined objects (if it has more than 1 object) Please read the note about how to prepare your Maya model to Unreal at the end of this mail.
3. After a model is finished (combined), it will be save in 2 versions:
1) Triangulated for testing in UT (TT_PModel_buildingOrangeTri_v001_TT.ma)
2) 4 sides polygon for unwrap UV (TT_PModel_buildingOrange_v010_TT.ma because it's not final yet ).
When it's in the unwrap process by texturer, the file will be save as: TT_PTexture_buildingOrange_v001_AS.ma
After finishing unwrap UV, the model will be sent back to modeler again to triangulate, save as final version and put into final folder .
Note:The file name of a uv snapshot(unwrapped uv) will be: TT_PTexture_buildingOrange_UV_v001_TT.jpg save it in working files>>UV folder
4. Modeller has to make a dummy targa file(image map of a material) to apply to the model and name it according to the model file name. Save it in the final folder of its catagory on Terra server. Here is the example:
TT_PModel_buildingOrange_v001_TT.ma ---> model file name
TT_PTexture_buildingOrange_vFinal_AS.tga ---> dummy targa file name (mean that it's known who will do this texture)
In case of 1 model has more than 1 material on it, different materials (and mostly different textures) have to be applied on the model. For example, a building with brick(wall), glass(roof) and wood(floor) needs 3 materials. To make it easier for texture team to know which faces are which material, the dummy targa files should be solid color images. This is how the dummy targa names will be:
TT_PModel_buildingOrange_v001_TT.ma ---> model file name
TT_PTexture_buildingOrange_wall_vFinal_AS.tga ---> dummy targa file name
TT_PTexture_buildingOrange_roof_vFinal_AS.tga ---> dummy targa file name
TT_PTexture_buildingOrange_floor_vFinal_AS.tga ---> dummy targa file name
or it'd be defined by level so the file name'd be: TT_PTexture_buildingOrange_level1_vFinal_AS.tga ---> dummy targa file name
Texturer will name a texture file by following the dummy targa file name, but change from "vFinal" to "v001". Once the final texture is done, just replace the dummy file . This way the model will not have missing image file problem.
5. Final folder is only for final files. If you have the new final file, you have to put the old final file to the working files folder and rename it to a version.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
how to prepare your Maya model to Unreal
In Maya, go to Display>>Grid>>option box and change to this settings
Length and width : 1024
Grid line every: 16
Subdivisions: 1
also go to every camera attribute and change Far Clip Plane:4000
The following is from unreal wiki.
Your Model
1. Should be "facing positive X". Meaning, in Maya, the model's front side should be toward the positive end of the X-axis. This will ensure a proper orientation in Ued.
2. Should be near the origin. Meaning, in Maya, the model's center should be on or near Maya's world origin, where all axis converge at zero.
3. Should have its Center pivot placed in a reasonable place. For example, a wheel would likely need the center pivot in the middle, while an hammer may need the center to be along the handle somewhere. It depends on if this is meant to be used as a mover, how it should move, or how it should be normally placed as a static mesh object in UnrealEd.
4. Should be one single object, not multiple objects placed together (unless you want them to be separate in UnrealEd). Use Polygon → Combine. Merge any extraneous faces, edges and vertices.
5. Should have the normals facing the correct direction. Use Display → PolygonComponents → Normals to see which direction your polygonal faces are "facing".
6. Should have different materials (shaders) applied to the polygonal faces that are meant to have different materials textures applied in UnrealEd. For example, you are making a car. You chassis has a texture all its own, but you want to use a simple glass material for the windshield. In this case, in Maya, you'd apply one color (material, shader) to the chassis and another color for the windshield. It doesn't matter what color, it's just an indicator to UnrealEd that these are separate materials that you'll apply in UnrealEd.
7. Should have its polygon texture alignment ready to go. Use the tools found in EditPolygons → Texture → ... to apply various projection schemes (like cylindrical, planar or automatic) and adjust the scale and orientation of those projections, if applicable.
Thx for reading,
Cherry ^_^
Friday, April 27, 2007
More updates!
Allo!
Sorry, we meant Monday, the 30th of April =) not May. Typing error. Sorry!
We had a great day today. The Production team have kicked off work and are enthusiastic about every single thing.. they're building models. making textures, loads of graphiti.. a great group that seems to be lovin' it! Good job guys.. The Concept team has finally gone their own ways to rest for a bit.. after an exhausting week of squeezing all their creative juices out! The Engine team, mindless of things going around are working full paced on things and have given us great feedback on the EPOCs..
The Sound guys met up with us as well today and discussed the engine with Sam as well. They're planning to start off work on Monday.. and seem keen to get their hands on the game as well =) a great trio!
We've decided not to rely on the computers at Uni anymore.. so please ensure you take back-ups even when you go out for an hour! You may back-up on the Terra which is accessible on the Macs and before you leave for the day, please ensure you ask Aarthi to back up your files on her HardDrive, And please fill in the timesheets in the black file thats on the table outside the Dub room.
Thats pretty much it for now.. So laters!
Have a great weekend!
The Producers!
Sorry, we meant Monday, the 30th of April =) not May. Typing error. Sorry!
We had a great day today. The Production team have kicked off work and are enthusiastic about every single thing.. they're building models. making textures, loads of graphiti.. a great group that seems to be lovin' it! Good job guys.. The Concept team has finally gone their own ways to rest for a bit.. after an exhausting week of squeezing all their creative juices out! The Engine team, mindless of things going around are working full paced on things and have given us great feedback on the EPOCs..
The Sound guys met up with us as well today and discussed the engine with Sam as well. They're planning to start off work on Monday.. and seem keen to get their hands on the game as well =) a great trio!
We've decided not to rely on the computers at Uni anymore.. so please ensure you take back-ups even when you go out for an hour! You may back-up on the Terra which is accessible on the Macs and before you leave for the day, please ensure you ask Aarthi to back up your files on her HardDrive, And please fill in the timesheets in the black file thats on the table outside the Dub room.
Thats pretty much it for now.. So laters!
Have a great weekend!
The Producers!
All set to get your hands dirty?!
Hey all!
How're you guys doing? Hope all is well =) and the production team is an excited bunch today.
The Concept team have their document almost ready now and its all set to go! It looks amazing and trust us, they've done a great job, working around the clock, managing their time time well with classes and stuff! Its looking really good... You should take a look at it when you come in tomorrow.
Paul, James and I are looking at the document and trying to make it very clear and concise so that you guys don't have any issues during production.
We're also meeting the Sound guys today to find out their ideas =) they're really keen to get going as well. Seem to be a very professional and fun bunch!
Kate is going to take a break for a while and get things rolling next week with the marketing of Terra Transeo! We're kinda thinking of taking to a bigger level this level. Fingers crossed =)
The Engine team have gotten most of the stuff together but are still working out a few issues! But they're pretty much sailing through things now.. Sam's a master trooper we think.. He's been looking at so many things at the same time.. and trying to get it all work! Way to go all of you!
We're sorry we have so many issues with the computers out here! And the network.. its a pain isn't it?! Really sorry about it, but we have to stick it out and get it done by the 14th of May.. so hope you guys are ok with that. We don't have much of a choice do we?!
We would like the entire class to come in at 9 AM on Monday, the 30th of May. Just for an hour!
We're also going to have a photo shoot and a small get-together =) to get us all in the spirit! So don't forget to bring in a light plain-coloured collared shirt in on Monday (and a tie if you have one!) Also, please do come in at 9 AM sharp!
Kepp a lookout on the blog tonight or tomorrow morning to see some of the work that the production crew have done for the day!
Cheers guys.. We think you're all champions to keep things going on.. and be bright and cheerful even when we have these computer issues going on.
Rock on,
The Producers!
How're you guys doing? Hope all is well =) and the production team is an excited bunch today.
The Concept team have their document almost ready now and its all set to go! It looks amazing and trust us, they've done a great job, working around the clock, managing their time time well with classes and stuff! Its looking really good... You should take a look at it when you come in tomorrow.
Paul, James and I are looking at the document and trying to make it very clear and concise so that you guys don't have any issues during production.
We're also meeting the Sound guys today to find out their ideas =) they're really keen to get going as well. Seem to be a very professional and fun bunch!
Kate is going to take a break for a while and get things rolling next week with the marketing of Terra Transeo! We're kinda thinking of taking to a bigger level this level. Fingers crossed =)
The Engine team have gotten most of the stuff together but are still working out a few issues! But they're pretty much sailing through things now.. Sam's a master trooper we think.. He's been looking at so many things at the same time.. and trying to get it all work! Way to go all of you!
We're sorry we have so many issues with the computers out here! And the network.. its a pain isn't it?! Really sorry about it, but we have to stick it out and get it done by the 14th of May.. so hope you guys are ok with that. We don't have much of a choice do we?!
We would like the entire class to come in at 9 AM on Monday, the 30th of May. Just for an hour!
We're also going to have a photo shoot and a small get-together =) to get us all in the spirit! So don't forget to bring in a light plain-coloured collared shirt in on Monday (and a tie if you have one!) Also, please do come in at 9 AM sharp!
Kepp a lookout on the blog tonight or tomorrow morning to see some of the work that the production crew have done for the day!
Cheers guys.. We think you're all champions to keep things going on.. and be bright and cheerful even when we have these computer issues going on.
Rock on,
The Producers!
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Importing Static Meshes from Maya 8.5
Hello All,
Seeing that the production team is going to get their hands dirty soon, i wanted to send this link to an online tutorial on exporting static meshes(Models made in Maya 8.5) for Cherry's 3d team in the production side and importing for us engine dudes. The rest of you can use it to jazz up you Room Assignments if u wish. Enjoy!
http://abunchofshortguys.org/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=45&PHPSESSID=c0628a242786df318909aef4ed2a67b4
Take it easy.
Amy
Seeing that the production team is going to get their hands dirty soon, i wanted to send this link to an online tutorial on exporting static meshes(Models made in Maya 8.5) for Cherry's 3d team in the production side and importing for us engine dudes. The rest of you can use it to jazz up you Room Assignments if u wish. Enjoy!
http://abunchofshortguys.org/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=45&PHPSESSID=c0628a242786df318909aef4ed2a67b4
Take it easy.
Amy
Engine news from Amy
Wow, since i found my way into a place where i can write things i thought i'd leave some interesting stuff happening on the engine side. First of all Sam is doing a great job as a leader, he knows his stuff!
As for idiots like me catching up on technology, i am more confident now.
Ask me,
Can i build a whole level from scratch? Yes
Can i create a jumpad ? yes
Can i force a bot to move around in a fixed path like its life depended on it? No sweat!
Can i make a bot harmless?..hmmm..YES!! but its a bit sad really.
I broke a bot.:(
His name was Jakob, now i just call him Janice.
Well i think when he was an Unreal bot he was more proud and independant, always scurrying along his pathnodes blasting the brains of anything that moved. Now he almost seems to need someone to be there for him, he's a bit errr clingy!! He comes running to you and stops for a moment exhibiting the emptiness of his arms that once held ammunition, and just waits there for you to maybe shoot him??
If you do he runs off into the distance and comes back for more, i managed to get rid of that part of the code it was beginning to stab my conscience.
But the point is Producers and Director you can make a couple of bots harmless as u wished, however Jakob was a pawn (just an actor), i haven't figured out where the other bots are hiding their AI so that i can throw this code in and have a stab at them. But when i do..hehe
If anyone would throw me a hint or has suggestions, i would be grateful.
Signing off after dumping my guilt and frustration on you.
Amy
As for idiots like me catching up on technology, i am more confident now.
Ask me,
Can i build a whole level from scratch? Yes
Can i create a jumpad ? yes
Can i force a bot to move around in a fixed path like its life depended on it? No sweat!
Can i make a bot harmless?..hmmm..YES!! but its a bit sad really.
I broke a bot.:(
His name was Jakob, now i just call him Janice.
Well i think when he was an Unreal bot he was more proud and independant, always scurrying along his pathnodes blasting the brains of anything that moved. Now he almost seems to need someone to be there for him, he's a bit errr clingy!! He comes running to you and stops for a moment exhibiting the emptiness of his arms that once held ammunition, and just waits there for you to maybe shoot him??
If you do he runs off into the distance and comes back for more, i managed to get rid of that part of the code it was beginning to stab my conscience.
But the point is Producers and Director you can make a couple of bots harmless as u wished, however Jakob was a pawn (just an actor), i haven't figured out where the other bots are hiding their AI so that i can throw this code in and have a stab at them. But when i do..hehe
If anyone would throw me a hint or has suggestions, i would be grateful.
Signing off after dumping my guilt and frustration on you.
Amy
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Concept Document
Premise
Chronic consumerism is a powerful, subliminal form of oppression. To overthrow the oppressiveness of lassez-faire capitalism, we must reconnect with nature.
Consumption, capitalism, materialistic lifestyle leads to the destruction of the earth through pollution. It also leads to destruction of the human heart because we lose sight of what is important: community, natural beauty, and freedom.
The Set
This world contains two continents but 4 main spaces:
-The Corporate City
-The Interior of central building
-The Ancient Forest
-The Gates to the forest
The City (Pre-history)
This city is choked with pollution, so much so that your view is very restricted. The sky, the sun and the upper segments of buildings cannot be seen from the ground. You cannot see the ends of streets when walking along. Propaganda and advertising, flashing neon lights and vehicles, sirens and footsteps clutter the atmosphere.
There are no birds, no trees, no clean running water and very little beauty.
The inhabitants of the city have lost their way. They are not aware that their surroundings are bleak because they are so obsessed with earning money and spending money.
They have also lost their sense of human spirit. They no longer know how to work together as a community. They are being controlled through their greed and fear of economic loss, by a regime of capitalist free market economic growth, where individual gain is the sole motivator. But they don’t even realize they are bound by this lonely world, so narrow is their view. These homogenous people march around the streets in monotony
The city was once a beautiful place. There was no pollution, no rubbish, people laughed and chatted in the streets. Where corporations now exist, market stalls once stood. Don’t you wish this beautiful city could once again become what it once was?
If only someone would save this city from being choked by pollution. Could you be the chosen one? The one who can show people the way? Only by reminding them of the beauty of nature, will we succeed. YOU ARE NOT ALONE – You must work you’re your comrades in the regime. And there is evidence all around the streets of a counter revolution. Pay heed to the subversive graffiti around you, it may help you in this quest.
You must find a way to plant a tree in the disused central city square. This will require gathering the four essential elements and bringing them back to the city.
Earth
Seeds
Water
Sun
However there are no trees or seeds left on this continent. You must find a way to escape the city and travel to the ancient forest. Once there you must find your way through the forest to collect the elements. Each time you find one element, make sure you bring it back to the city.
The Ancient Forest
This forest is a spectacular vision of natural beauty. Lush green rainforest with various canopy layers.
When players find the element, they will be rewarded with game points and will get to see a funny little animation involving the Ancient Gods or other beings on the island. If you are in multiplayer mode, only the first player to find the element gets to see this animation reward.
Collection of the element triggers three things:
1) A voice (sound file) that announces you have 20 seconds to leave the island before you will be struck down by the Gods (in a flash of lightning)
2) A timer that begins this countdown
3) It opens a door by remote trigger. This door is in the city and is the portal to the next stage of the forest.
Each element must be placed in a specific spot back in the city.
Forest Access
From the city, you can only access the forest from 4 secret teleports that have been built by the revolutionaries. Each one gives you increased access to the forest, as you get further into the game.
Forest Starting Point
You arrive at the forest at the top of a mountain, overlooking the entire forest. There is an open cloudy sky above. You are presented with four large ancient sculptures. Each sculpture visually represents an element and contains a doorway.
At this starting stage, you can only access one doorway, which leads into the forest. The others are blocked by a stone wall. These doors will open up to you one by one as you pass stages in the game.
Places in the World
Starting Point
Purpose
The starting point is where players are spawned. The purpose of this place is to;
a) Tell players the prehistory of the city
b) Make players aware of their mission
c) Hook players in so that they want to keep playing
d) Give players a chance to practice moving around
Intention / Objective
This should be the only safe-feeling private space in the city. The intention is that this room contains 8 arch windows. 2 of these show a different image, one of the city, 1 of the Element Gods. When walked up to, these windows display still images, played with a voice over, to give the pre-history about the game and imbue motive into the players.
Physical Surroundings
Top floor of central building. Enclosed room with archway windows but no view of city.
Ornate circular fountain at centre of room. Mosaic floor. Ornate mosaic domed roof. Ornate carved marble walls. Doorway leads to spiral staircase leading downstairs.
Mood
Quiet, peaceful, subdued.
Time of Day
It should feel like a dark overcast day at the beginning of the game. As each level is completed, the light should become stronger and the weather should clear until it is full sun on a clear beautiful day.
Colour
Bright colours and ornate textures that will be dull in the darkness but brilliant once lit at the end by sunlight.
Light
The room has poorly lit diffuse lighting. Players cannot actually see the roof and walls from the starting point. These will be revealed at the conclusion of the game when the roof opens to let in a stream of sunlight.
Sound
Mute, muffled city sounds. Some music playing: Fat Freddy’s Drop; “Hope for a generation” and “What’s a world with no soul”
Cues and directions for play
After being spawned into the room, players can walk around the room testing things out. If they walk up to the first window, they will be shown the prehistory of the city through a voiceover with black and white slideshow.
The First slideshow (Sepia)
The following images will flick through without order, as the voiceover tells the prehistory of the city.
1. Images of advertising and consumerist propaganda (4 pictures)
2. Pollution accumulating over a street scene (4 pictures)
3. Tree-lined street to street with empty tree boxes and dead trees (3 pics)
4. Picture similar to John Brack Collins St, 5PM but with our robots instead (1 pic)
View / vantage point
Whilst there is pollution, we cannot see much. However once the pollution leaves, we will be at the fourth floor level of the city.
Important objects or props
Dried up fountain in centre of room
Special spots to place 4 Elements in fountain
Back story buttons
Steep staircase
Obstacles / Game play
Walking up to the screens and observing prehistory
Bots
None
THE IMPERIAL CITY
Purpose
1. To give the players a sense of oppression and toxic pollution.
2. To provide an area in which portals are hidden
3. To show transition from dystopia to utopia through pollution levels
Intention / Objective
The city is the crux of the story line. This place has to be both the dystopia and the Utopia. It has to transform from dystopia to utopia in graduated stages as the players complete each level and bring each natural element back to the city.
This visual transition is intrinsic to the premise. The brief asks for three worlds – Dystopia, Borderland, Utopia. By having dystopia and utopia one in the same, we are stating that dystopia is not a place, it is a frame of mind and a state of control over freedom / nature. You can hide from dystopia by running, however you may even overthrow it by staying to fight.
Physical Surroundings
A street network combined of narrow alleyways and broad dominating thoroughfares. Monumental points of focus (ie Haussman’s Paris or the Shrine in Melbourne). A slightly confusing layout of alleyways will give players a sense of satisfaction once they work it out but wont be off-putting. City is a collection of architectural types: New and old, imaginary and real, decrepit and beautiful, mundane and awe-inspiring.
Think of the city in terms of vertical layers or levels.
City Layer 1
The street level is noisy, ugly, dirty, full of shops, concrete, plastics, neons, advertising, propaganda etc.
The shop windows all display the same products, simply coloured differently. The producst will actually be labeled things such as “Stuff you don’t need” Crap” “More Crap” Even more crap with NEW packaging” etc.
There are empty tree boxes where trees used to be.
The pollution prevents you from seeing above the eves of the ground floor. It also limits the visibility of the focal buildings at the end of each boulevard.
City Layer 2
Architecture becomes more interesting, colour palette becomes a tad less dull and dark. No more advertising at that level.
City Layer 3
Very ornate and imaginative architecture. Buildings increasingly have more interesting and ornate form. More organic shapes, more strange sculptures looming out of walls. Colour palette becomes brighter.
City Layer 4
Beautiful incredible spires, mosaic surfaces, ornate carved marble surfaces. Crazy organic architecture. Awe-inspiring cathedral tops. Colour palette is going nuts – golds and coppers and cobalt blues, greens and reds.
Mood
Street level - Oppressive, dark, smoggy, hectic. Consumers paradise. Lots of shops,
advertising, neon flashing lights noise. Mostly narrow spaces.
Robot shaped bots march around the streets drearily.
Colour
Varies depending on level of city.
Light
Some street lamps but you cannot see the shape of the lamps very well – spotlight style lights (some of them flickering)
Car headlights going past
Sound
Cars
People
Footsteps
Running
Advertising voice-overs
Tires screeching
Sirens
Car alarms
Cues and directions for play
Graffitti – where ever there is a graffiti quote it will contain a hidden message in smaller text so that you only get the hidden message if you stop to read the graffiti. Eg: “It only takes a few good men to stay quite … etc Go Left Next Intersection”
View / vantage point
Changes depending on level, due to pollution
Level 1
Can only see a few metres in front – cannot see to end of a long street. Can only see the street level, not up to the second story of buildings.
Level 2
Beginning to see second story and have more metres of vision in front.
Level 3
Can see basically whole buildings with ornate sculptures etc.
Level 4
Allowed access to the tree top or sky monorail so that you get a sense of the spaciousness and beauty of the city. Can go around in the monorail looking at the ornate upper stories of the city.
Interactive / moveable objects or props
Portal Gates
Pollution
Obstacles / Game play
Players must avoid the bots who can paralyze you.
Bots
Based on Collins St 5:00 – they drudge along to work, marching about, head down. Maybe looking at shop windows as they walk.
Forest
Purpose
The purpose of the forest is to
1. Provide the scenery and atmosphere of a dense rainforest for all stages of game play
2. A forest is the natural place we expect to find the elements
3. Create a sense of being in a natural, awesome and beautiful place in contrast to the city.
4. Be lots of fun and exciting to run around in
5. This stage has varying levels of access. Each time you complete a stage, you must go back to the city. When you come back, you will have increased access to the level.
Intention / Objective
This place must therefore be very exciting, interesting and visually impressive. This will hook players in so that they want to keep playing.
Physical Surroundings
Players are surrounded by tall trees, vines ferns, flowers, rocks, moss, and a ground cover of grasses.
Big spider webs hand between tree branches.
There is access to the upper canopy, here we can walk through the treetops along a swing-bridge made of vines.
Mood
Fast-paced – action game playing in contrast to the mood of exploration in the city.
The forest will have music – La Phat African drumming beats.
Colour
Tree Canopy: A selection of different shades of vibrant lush rainforest green – see design document
Tree Trunks: Multi colour browns red and green (see texture sample)
Earth: Humus brown (see pallet).
Light
Sunlight should be sparse once in the thick of the forest but could shine down in sun rays through canopy gaps in the forest. As each new level of access is allowed, light is used to reveal a previously unseen doors, underground passages, staircases and new avenues of exploration.
Sound
Sound will change depending on which access level you are in. At first, looking for the seed we will hear
• Australian rainforest bird calls
• Insect noises
• Footsteps crushing leaves
• African drumming
Then as we look for different elements, the sound will change to convey a change in mode. For instance while we are searching for water, we should hear waterfall or water dripping, running water etc.
Weather
There should be different whether or climate in some of the areas.
Emitters
Insects such as butterflies, bumblebees, beetles etc
Cues and directions for play
The spirits / gods will give directions for play. Once the element has been collected by a player, a voice over will give the cue to return to the Forest Teleport as soon as possible. A vocal countdown will begin. Fast-paced urgent drumming music will play.
View / vantage point
When on ground level, we won’t be able to see the forest for the trees.
Once in the canopy on the suspension foot bridge, it will feel like this forest goes on for a long time.
Important objects or props
Obstacles / Game play
Bots
None
Game Play
Mazes
Tricks
Swing doors
Doors requiring co-operation to operate
Water volume that leads to new playing area
Jump downs that you cannot jump up
Broken bridges
Swing bridge ?
Moving platforms
Sinking platforms
~The Concept Team~
Chronic consumerism is a powerful, subliminal form of oppression. To overthrow the oppressiveness of lassez-faire capitalism, we must reconnect with nature.
Consumption, capitalism, materialistic lifestyle leads to the destruction of the earth through pollution. It also leads to destruction of the human heart because we lose sight of what is important: community, natural beauty, and freedom.
The Set
This world contains two continents but 4 main spaces:
-The Corporate City
-The Interior of central building
-The Ancient Forest
-The Gates to the forest
The City (Pre-history)
This city is choked with pollution, so much so that your view is very restricted. The sky, the sun and the upper segments of buildings cannot be seen from the ground. You cannot see the ends of streets when walking along. Propaganda and advertising, flashing neon lights and vehicles, sirens and footsteps clutter the atmosphere.
There are no birds, no trees, no clean running water and very little beauty.
The inhabitants of the city have lost their way. They are not aware that their surroundings are bleak because they are so obsessed with earning money and spending money.
They have also lost their sense of human spirit. They no longer know how to work together as a community. They are being controlled through their greed and fear of economic loss, by a regime of capitalist free market economic growth, where individual gain is the sole motivator. But they don’t even realize they are bound by this lonely world, so narrow is their view. These homogenous people march around the streets in monotony
The city was once a beautiful place. There was no pollution, no rubbish, people laughed and chatted in the streets. Where corporations now exist, market stalls once stood. Don’t you wish this beautiful city could once again become what it once was?
If only someone would save this city from being choked by pollution. Could you be the chosen one? The one who can show people the way? Only by reminding them of the beauty of nature, will we succeed. YOU ARE NOT ALONE – You must work you’re your comrades in the regime. And there is evidence all around the streets of a counter revolution. Pay heed to the subversive graffiti around you, it may help you in this quest.
You must find a way to plant a tree in the disused central city square. This will require gathering the four essential elements and bringing them back to the city.
Earth
Seeds
Water
Sun
However there are no trees or seeds left on this continent. You must find a way to escape the city and travel to the ancient forest. Once there you must find your way through the forest to collect the elements. Each time you find one element, make sure you bring it back to the city.
The Ancient Forest
This forest is a spectacular vision of natural beauty. Lush green rainforest with various canopy layers.
When players find the element, they will be rewarded with game points and will get to see a funny little animation involving the Ancient Gods or other beings on the island. If you are in multiplayer mode, only the first player to find the element gets to see this animation reward.
Collection of the element triggers three things:
1) A voice (sound file) that announces you have 20 seconds to leave the island before you will be struck down by the Gods (in a flash of lightning)
2) A timer that begins this countdown
3) It opens a door by remote trigger. This door is in the city and is the portal to the next stage of the forest.
Each element must be placed in a specific spot back in the city.
Forest Access
From the city, you can only access the forest from 4 secret teleports that have been built by the revolutionaries. Each one gives you increased access to the forest, as you get further into the game.
Forest Starting Point
You arrive at the forest at the top of a mountain, overlooking the entire forest. There is an open cloudy sky above. You are presented with four large ancient sculptures. Each sculpture visually represents an element and contains a doorway.
At this starting stage, you can only access one doorway, which leads into the forest. The others are blocked by a stone wall. These doors will open up to you one by one as you pass stages in the game.
Places in the World
Starting Point
Purpose
The starting point is where players are spawned. The purpose of this place is to;
a) Tell players the prehistory of the city
b) Make players aware of their mission
c) Hook players in so that they want to keep playing
d) Give players a chance to practice moving around
Intention / Objective
This should be the only safe-feeling private space in the city. The intention is that this room contains 8 arch windows. 2 of these show a different image, one of the city, 1 of the Element Gods. When walked up to, these windows display still images, played with a voice over, to give the pre-history about the game and imbue motive into the players.
Physical Surroundings
Top floor of central building. Enclosed room with archway windows but no view of city.
Ornate circular fountain at centre of room. Mosaic floor. Ornate mosaic domed roof. Ornate carved marble walls. Doorway leads to spiral staircase leading downstairs.
Mood
Quiet, peaceful, subdued.
Time of Day
It should feel like a dark overcast day at the beginning of the game. As each level is completed, the light should become stronger and the weather should clear until it is full sun on a clear beautiful day.
Colour
Bright colours and ornate textures that will be dull in the darkness but brilliant once lit at the end by sunlight.
Light
The room has poorly lit diffuse lighting. Players cannot actually see the roof and walls from the starting point. These will be revealed at the conclusion of the game when the roof opens to let in a stream of sunlight.
Sound
Mute, muffled city sounds. Some music playing: Fat Freddy’s Drop; “Hope for a generation” and “What’s a world with no soul”
Cues and directions for play
After being spawned into the room, players can walk around the room testing things out. If they walk up to the first window, they will be shown the prehistory of the city through a voiceover with black and white slideshow.
The First slideshow (Sepia)
The following images will flick through without order, as the voiceover tells the prehistory of the city.
1. Images of advertising and consumerist propaganda (4 pictures)
2. Pollution accumulating over a street scene (4 pictures)
3. Tree-lined street to street with empty tree boxes and dead trees (3 pics)
4. Picture similar to John Brack Collins St, 5PM but with our robots instead (1 pic)
View / vantage point
Whilst there is pollution, we cannot see much. However once the pollution leaves, we will be at the fourth floor level of the city.
Important objects or props
Dried up fountain in centre of room
Special spots to place 4 Elements in fountain
Back story buttons
Steep staircase
Obstacles / Game play
Walking up to the screens and observing prehistory
Bots
None
THE IMPERIAL CITY
Purpose
1. To give the players a sense of oppression and toxic pollution.
2. To provide an area in which portals are hidden
3. To show transition from dystopia to utopia through pollution levels
Intention / Objective
The city is the crux of the story line. This place has to be both the dystopia and the Utopia. It has to transform from dystopia to utopia in graduated stages as the players complete each level and bring each natural element back to the city.
This visual transition is intrinsic to the premise. The brief asks for three worlds – Dystopia, Borderland, Utopia. By having dystopia and utopia one in the same, we are stating that dystopia is not a place, it is a frame of mind and a state of control over freedom / nature. You can hide from dystopia by running, however you may even overthrow it by staying to fight.
Physical Surroundings
A street network combined of narrow alleyways and broad dominating thoroughfares. Monumental points of focus (ie Haussman’s Paris or the Shrine in Melbourne). A slightly confusing layout of alleyways will give players a sense of satisfaction once they work it out but wont be off-putting. City is a collection of architectural types: New and old, imaginary and real, decrepit and beautiful, mundane and awe-inspiring.
Think of the city in terms of vertical layers or levels.
City Layer 1
The street level is noisy, ugly, dirty, full of shops, concrete, plastics, neons, advertising, propaganda etc.
The shop windows all display the same products, simply coloured differently. The producst will actually be labeled things such as “Stuff you don’t need” Crap” “More Crap” Even more crap with NEW packaging” etc.
There are empty tree boxes where trees used to be.
The pollution prevents you from seeing above the eves of the ground floor. It also limits the visibility of the focal buildings at the end of each boulevard.
City Layer 2
Architecture becomes more interesting, colour palette becomes a tad less dull and dark. No more advertising at that level.
City Layer 3
Very ornate and imaginative architecture. Buildings increasingly have more interesting and ornate form. More organic shapes, more strange sculptures looming out of walls. Colour palette becomes brighter.
City Layer 4
Beautiful incredible spires, mosaic surfaces, ornate carved marble surfaces. Crazy organic architecture. Awe-inspiring cathedral tops. Colour palette is going nuts – golds and coppers and cobalt blues, greens and reds.
Mood
Street level - Oppressive, dark, smoggy, hectic. Consumers paradise. Lots of shops,
advertising, neon flashing lights noise. Mostly narrow spaces.
Robot shaped bots march around the streets drearily.
Colour
Varies depending on level of city.
Light
Some street lamps but you cannot see the shape of the lamps very well – spotlight style lights (some of them flickering)
Car headlights going past
Sound
Cars
People
Footsteps
Running
Advertising voice-overs
Tires screeching
Sirens
Car alarms
Cues and directions for play
Graffitti – where ever there is a graffiti quote it will contain a hidden message in smaller text so that you only get the hidden message if you stop to read the graffiti. Eg: “It only takes a few good men to stay quite … etc Go Left Next Intersection”
View / vantage point
Changes depending on level, due to pollution
Level 1
Can only see a few metres in front – cannot see to end of a long street. Can only see the street level, not up to the second story of buildings.
Level 2
Beginning to see second story and have more metres of vision in front.
Level 3
Can see basically whole buildings with ornate sculptures etc.
Level 4
Allowed access to the tree top or sky monorail so that you get a sense of the spaciousness and beauty of the city. Can go around in the monorail looking at the ornate upper stories of the city.
Interactive / moveable objects or props
Portal Gates
Pollution
Obstacles / Game play
Players must avoid the bots who can paralyze you.
Bots
Based on Collins St 5:00 – they drudge along to work, marching about, head down. Maybe looking at shop windows as they walk.
Forest
Purpose
The purpose of the forest is to
1. Provide the scenery and atmosphere of a dense rainforest for all stages of game play
2. A forest is the natural place we expect to find the elements
3. Create a sense of being in a natural, awesome and beautiful place in contrast to the city.
4. Be lots of fun and exciting to run around in
5. This stage has varying levels of access. Each time you complete a stage, you must go back to the city. When you come back, you will have increased access to the level.
Intention / Objective
This place must therefore be very exciting, interesting and visually impressive. This will hook players in so that they want to keep playing.
Physical Surroundings
Players are surrounded by tall trees, vines ferns, flowers, rocks, moss, and a ground cover of grasses.
Big spider webs hand between tree branches.
There is access to the upper canopy, here we can walk through the treetops along a swing-bridge made of vines.
Mood
Fast-paced – action game playing in contrast to the mood of exploration in the city.
The forest will have music – La Phat African drumming beats.
Colour
Tree Canopy: A selection of different shades of vibrant lush rainforest green – see design document
Tree Trunks: Multi colour browns red and green (see texture sample)
Earth: Humus brown (see pallet).
Light
Sunlight should be sparse once in the thick of the forest but could shine down in sun rays through canopy gaps in the forest. As each new level of access is allowed, light is used to reveal a previously unseen doors, underground passages, staircases and new avenues of exploration.
Sound
Sound will change depending on which access level you are in. At first, looking for the seed we will hear
• Australian rainforest bird calls
• Insect noises
• Footsteps crushing leaves
• African drumming
Then as we look for different elements, the sound will change to convey a change in mode. For instance while we are searching for water, we should hear waterfall or water dripping, running water etc.
Weather
There should be different whether or climate in some of the areas.
Emitters
Insects such as butterflies, bumblebees, beetles etc
Cues and directions for play
The spirits / gods will give directions for play. Once the element has been collected by a player, a voice over will give the cue to return to the Forest Teleport as soon as possible. A vocal countdown will begin. Fast-paced urgent drumming music will play.
View / vantage point
When on ground level, we won’t be able to see the forest for the trees.
Once in the canopy on the suspension foot bridge, it will feel like this forest goes on for a long time.
Important objects or props
Obstacles / Game play
Bots
None
Game Play
Mazes
Tricks
Swing doors
Doors requiring co-operation to operate
Water volume that leads to new playing area
Jump downs that you cannot jump up
Broken bridges
Swing bridge ?
Moving platforms
Sinking platforms
~The Concept Team~
Feedback and points to be noted!
Hey guys!
Some few points to be noted in terms of how we should be working and how people have coped with things in the previous years and how we should overcome issues that they've had..
On a large scale, we've decided to hold meetings every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 9:15 AM before we kick off work for the day to discuss issues and be kept in the loop of whats happening, whats happened and whats about to happen. So please make sure you're there =) We start off on the 27th (Friday) with our first meeting!
Apart from that, we've tried breaking down issues related to each team, so here you go!
CONCEPT TEAM:
- Need to communicate clearly to the rest of the group about whats kept in and whats kept out from the project.
- Concept/Design Document should carry enough ‘instructions’.
- The Design Document needs to be bound so that it is not dispersed among everyone. No one should be allowed to take it outside the studio at any point in time.
- Concept art and sketches need to be developed, particularly for 3d models.
- A tight color palette needs to be developed.
- Engine Team needs to see the final Design Document from the Concept Team in the first week.
PRODUCTION TEAM:
- Sound should be tested in the space early on. Crucial, as it might pose problems at a later stage.
- Lighting should not be a last minute decision.
- Need to know about “poly count”.
- Assets. It might be a difficult transition between the Production Team and the Engine Team of assets. There could be someone who is in a ‘hybrid’ position that is responsible for textures and models between the two teams. There were some technical problems in the previous years with textures on models and mesh’s that caused delays.
- Don’t give Engine Team anything that is not completed. Engine team should not end up making models etc, production type tasks. Assets should not trickle in late posing problems for the Engine Team who might find difficult to keep track of at the last moment.
ENGINE TEAM:
- Try and finish as much testing as possible at the start.
- You could always approach John, Jeremy, Sam Howie, Christian, Toshi, Gavin McD, etc. for help if they have time and are willing to help. Might prove very useful.
- Engine Team needs to see the final Design Document from the Concept Team in the first week.
- Gathering of resources came very late to the Engine Team, resources not gathered into the one package.
- Breaking up the labour in the Engine Team is good i.e. Someone for emitters, someone for programming, someone for triggers, etc.
- Engine Teams previously have been ‘pressed for time’ and so had little contact with Director. Make sure this is not the case and that the team is in constant touch with the Producers and the Director.
- Should not work until the end. Should test, tweak and edit for a few days at the end.
- Jeremy’s room project might prove helpful for the Engine Team’s knowledge.
- John’s built a level that explains gameplay basics, jump heights, world units, etc. Please ask him for details, so that you can test that out!
More later, seeya guys =)
James and Aarthi
Some few points to be noted in terms of how we should be working and how people have coped with things in the previous years and how we should overcome issues that they've had..
On a large scale, we've decided to hold meetings every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 9:15 AM before we kick off work for the day to discuss issues and be kept in the loop of whats happening, whats happened and whats about to happen. So please make sure you're there =) We start off on the 27th (Friday) with our first meeting!
Apart from that, we've tried breaking down issues related to each team, so here you go!
CONCEPT TEAM:
- Need to communicate clearly to the rest of the group about whats kept in and whats kept out from the project.
- Concept/Design Document should carry enough ‘instructions’.
- The Design Document needs to be bound so that it is not dispersed among everyone. No one should be allowed to take it outside the studio at any point in time.
- Concept art and sketches need to be developed, particularly for 3d models.
- A tight color palette needs to be developed.
- Engine Team needs to see the final Design Document from the Concept Team in the first week.
PRODUCTION TEAM:
- Sound should be tested in the space early on. Crucial, as it might pose problems at a later stage.
- Lighting should not be a last minute decision.
- Need to know about “poly count”.
- Assets. It might be a difficult transition between the Production Team and the Engine Team of assets. There could be someone who is in a ‘hybrid’ position that is responsible for textures and models between the two teams. There were some technical problems in the previous years with textures on models and mesh’s that caused delays.
- Don’t give Engine Team anything that is not completed. Engine team should not end up making models etc, production type tasks. Assets should not trickle in late posing problems for the Engine Team who might find difficult to keep track of at the last moment.
ENGINE TEAM:
- Try and finish as much testing as possible at the start.
- You could always approach John, Jeremy, Sam Howie, Christian, Toshi, Gavin McD, etc. for help if they have time and are willing to help. Might prove very useful.
- Engine Team needs to see the final Design Document from the Concept Team in the first week.
- Gathering of resources came very late to the Engine Team, resources not gathered into the one package.
- Breaking up the labour in the Engine Team is good i.e. Someone for emitters, someone for programming, someone for triggers, etc.
- Engine Teams previously have been ‘pressed for time’ and so had little contact with Director. Make sure this is not the case and that the team is in constant touch with the Producers and the Director.
- Should not work until the end. Should test, tweak and edit for a few days at the end.
- Jeremy’s room project might prove helpful for the Engine Team’s knowledge.
- John’s built a level that explains gameplay basics, jump heights, world units, etc. Please ask him for details, so that you can test that out!
More later, seeya guys =)
James and Aarthi
Monday, April 23, 2007
Great job!
Hey guys!
Congrats.. you guys really did an awesome job today! It was really really well thought of.. and EmilyB, hats off to you.. with the presentation! It was a great way to pitch the idea =)
Alrighty, after the meeting with the EPs tonight, we've scaled down the concept, which I'm sure EmilyB and Paul would talk to you about..
Here's a list of things (in a broad scale) for the Concept team to do over the next few days.
1. Refine the ideas with respect to the feedback that you have received.
2. Provide the Producers with the Design and Concept Document by 11:00 AM on Thursday.
3. An Assets List for the city by 2:30 PM Tuesday afternoon. It needs to be broken down into a model-building list, a textures list, sound list, etc.
4. An Assets list for the island of Gondwana by 10:00 AM Thursday morning.
See y'll tomorrow! Keep this going =) you guys are really awesome!
James and Aarthi
Congrats.. you guys really did an awesome job today! It was really really well thought of.. and EmilyB, hats off to you.. with the presentation! It was a great way to pitch the idea =)
Alrighty, after the meeting with the EPs tonight, we've scaled down the concept, which I'm sure EmilyB and Paul would talk to you about..
Here's a list of things (in a broad scale) for the Concept team to do over the next few days.
1. Refine the ideas with respect to the feedback that you have received.
2. Provide the Producers with the Design and Concept Document by 11:00 AM on Thursday.
3. An Assets List for the city by 2:30 PM Tuesday afternoon. It needs to be broken down into a model-building list, a textures list, sound list, etc.
4. An Assets list for the island of Gondwana by 10:00 AM Thursday morning.
See y'll tomorrow! Keep this going =) you guys are really awesome!
James and Aarthi
The Pitch!
Hello!
As you would all know the pitch today went off really well =) in terms of how it was presented and laid out. Congrats guys! It was really nice to see so much thought put into what you guys have done!
The general consensus was that it was really professional and the effort that the concept team has put in has been awesome. From what we hear, teams from previous years haven't had a chance to present it in this fashion and this is a great start indeed. For us especially. Andy's remark was that we've done a great job to have reached the point we're at now and we're well ahead.
But as all things would have a backside to it, we've got real issues to deal with, things to test out and nutting down to a concise and clearer idea of gameplay and scale. We also need to deal with it in terms of the timeframe we have.
According to Matt, there are some areas that need further consideration:
1. the scale
2. the multi-user aspect (I think Paul and Em B have worked this out now!)
3. the emphasis on goal-oriented gameplay
4. the 'reward' or 'pay-off' at the end
And I think Paul and the Concept team would probably be working on these for the next 3 days.
The meeting with the EPs today lifted so much weight off our shoulders, as we've resolved to break it down into a more concise piece.
1. We've resolved to make it CLEARLY a multi-player game. So it needs atleast two people playing it at any point in time.
2. We've decided to have only two spaces, the city and the island (as one slightly more complex area where all 4 stages of the game would be played.)
The Engine team at the moment is trying to work out whether the concept would work as a whole and if the multi-player nature of it would present problems!
Jo and Cherry, from the Production team, have offered to test out a few things as well tomorrow.
Another reminder: Please do your time-sheets by 4PM tomorrow and load them onto Terra 'cause we are planning to log them in! Please do it, cause we have higher ups that we need to answer to. And remember managing your time is crucial as it would help you in your minor and major project as well =)
Cheers guys!
And thanks for the effort and feedback today!
The Producers
As you would all know the pitch today went off really well =) in terms of how it was presented and laid out. Congrats guys! It was really nice to see so much thought put into what you guys have done!
The general consensus was that it was really professional and the effort that the concept team has put in has been awesome. From what we hear, teams from previous years haven't had a chance to present it in this fashion and this is a great start indeed. For us especially. Andy's remark was that we've done a great job to have reached the point we're at now and we're well ahead.
But as all things would have a backside to it, we've got real issues to deal with, things to test out and nutting down to a concise and clearer idea of gameplay and scale. We also need to deal with it in terms of the timeframe we have.
According to Matt, there are some areas that need further consideration:
1. the scale
2. the multi-user aspect (I think Paul and Em B have worked this out now!)
3. the emphasis on goal-oriented gameplay
4. the 'reward' or 'pay-off' at the end
And I think Paul and the Concept team would probably be working on these for the next 3 days.
The meeting with the EPs today lifted so much weight off our shoulders, as we've resolved to break it down into a more concise piece.
1. We've resolved to make it CLEARLY a multi-player game. So it needs atleast two people playing it at any point in time.
2. We've decided to have only two spaces, the city and the island (as one slightly more complex area where all 4 stages of the game would be played.)
The Engine team at the moment is trying to work out whether the concept would work as a whole and if the multi-player nature of it would present problems!
Jo and Cherry, from the Production team, have offered to test out a few things as well tomorrow.
Another reminder: Please do your time-sheets by 4PM tomorrow and load them onto Terra 'cause we are planning to log them in! Please do it, cause we have higher ups that we need to answer to. And remember managing your time is crucial as it would help you in your minor and major project as well =)
Cheers guys!
And thanks for the effort and feedback today!
The Producers
Friday, April 20, 2007
Terra Transeo Update
Hey there!
We would like to remind you all that Paul and the Concept team would be pitching their concept on Monday at 10 AM. Please be there to check out the awesome ideas that these visualisers have come up with and the effort that they have put into making things. Any feedback is welcome as well!
We've changed the Production Timeline, so please take note of that as well. Please note that each person would have to log 108 hours for the project and please try not to go over-budget =) your team leaders would be explaining more about this as well.
We're reattaching the TImesheets as a reminder for you to log your time. Please fill in the details (your name, etc.) as well. You would just have to input the hours in the 24-hour format and it would automatically add up the hours daily and output a total project tally for you. There is ANOTHER WORKSHEET in it which you would have to use to let us know what files you've worked on, what you've done and how you've saved out the files, etc.
Please save your copy of the timesheets on Terra EVERYDAY with the naming convention as follows:
yourName_TT_TimeSheet.xls
e.g. aarthiSriram_TT_TimeSheet.xls
We've also attched a document that specifies the file management protocols that we would be following for the project! Check 'em out!
We've uploaded these details for you on the Terra as well, in the projectData folder.
More later,
Cheers guys and see y'll Monday =) in the meantime, have a great weekend!
The producers!
We would like to remind you all that Paul and the Concept team would be pitching their concept on Monday at 10 AM. Please be there to check out the awesome ideas that these visualisers have come up with and the effort that they have put into making things. Any feedback is welcome as well!
We've changed the Production Timeline, so please take note of that as well. Please note that each person would have to log 108 hours for the project and please try not to go over-budget =) your team leaders would be explaining more about this as well.
We're reattaching the TImesheets as a reminder for you to log your time. Please fill in the details (your name, etc.) as well. You would just have to input the hours in the 24-hour format and it would automatically add up the hours daily and output a total project tally for you. There is ANOTHER WORKSHEET in it which you would have to use to let us know what files you've worked on, what you've done and how you've saved out the files, etc.
Please save your copy of the timesheets on Terra EVERYDAY with the naming convention as follows:
yourName_TT_TimeSheet.xls
e.g. aarthiSriram_TT_TimeSheet.xls
We've also attched a document that specifies the file management protocols that we would be following for the project! Check 'em out!
We've uploaded these details for you on the Terra as well, in the projectData folder.
More later,
Cheers guys and see y'll Monday =) in the meantime, have a great weekend!
The producers!
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Let's play!
Hey there!
Hope all you guys are doing great =)
We're all meeting up tomorrow afternoon at 2 PM after Hunters n' Gatherers to PLAY GAMES! We're planning to hook up the network and have some fun for a few hours!! So do join us!
Also, we have a further break up of the teams. Please scroll down to take a look.
News from our side is very much colourful!! Things are going in full flow at this point with the concept team making AMAZING! models and plans and the Engine team trying to work out concepts. We're guessing those of you from the Production team are raring to go as well.
As you all would probably know, we're meeting up on Monday at 10:00 AM at the studio for a PITCH. Paul and the Concept team would be presenting their ideas and we (The Producers) would be presenting our schedule. SO DON'T MISS IT!
Special Mentions:
The concept team has done a brilliant job this past week =) Good on you, guys!
Reece and David are trying to rope in people from downstairs (the sound school!) to work with us.
Kate has offered to pitch in hours to market Terra Transeo!
Shelley has offered to work on the website for our project.
Thanks so much guys!
Thats it for now.. Give us a yell if you need anything =)
Cheers,
James and Aarthi
P.S. We're attaching the Production Timeline that we have come up with!
---------------------------------------------------------------
TEAM BREAKDOWN:
Producers:
Aarthi Sriram
James Daniel
Director:
Paul Garry
Marketing:
Kate Mills
Concept Team:
Leader:
Emily Bissland
Character Design:
Emily Day
Visual Treatment (Lighting, Mood, etc.)
Kate Mills
Lee (Unchalee Anantawat)
Level Design:
Ming Shyan Kuit
Qian Ying (Shelley) Chen
Yu-Kuan (Ray) Lu
Production Team
Textures and Interface:
Leader:
Jo Fong
Isaac Cafarella
Tzu Wei Chang (Tony)
Wenke (Alan) Jiang
Xaio (Ada) Tong Wang
3D:
Leader:
Thittaya (Cherry) Thiensunchai
Modelling and Lighting:
Chuan Keng (Kenneth) Wei
Reece Schubert
Shreyas Deshpande
Zhi Yiun (Joyce) Cui
Animation and Rigging:
Bhavpreet Kaur Ghai
Moon Sun Lee
Peter Lowey
Sound:
Reece Schubert
Visual Effects:
Shreyas
Engine Team:
Leader:
Sam Samai
All-Hamel (Mike) Ghanem
Amy Thomas
Cordellia Brown
Gerard Kelly
Mirza Mohd Eskandarian (Eski)
Pulindu (PJ) Wagaarachchige
Website Development:
Shelley
---------------------------------------------------------------
Hope all you guys are doing great =)
We're all meeting up tomorrow afternoon at 2 PM after Hunters n' Gatherers to PLAY GAMES! We're planning to hook up the network and have some fun for a few hours!! So do join us!
Also, we have a further break up of the teams. Please scroll down to take a look.
News from our side is very much colourful!! Things are going in full flow at this point with the concept team making AMAZING! models and plans and the Engine team trying to work out concepts. We're guessing those of you from the Production team are raring to go as well.
As you all would probably know, we're meeting up on Monday at 10:00 AM at the studio for a PITCH. Paul and the Concept team would be presenting their ideas and we (The Producers) would be presenting our schedule. SO DON'T MISS IT!
Special Mentions:
The concept team has done a brilliant job this past week =) Good on you, guys!
Reece and David are trying to rope in people from downstairs (the sound school!) to work with us.
Kate has offered to pitch in hours to market Terra Transeo!
Shelley has offered to work on the website for our project.
Thanks so much guys!
Thats it for now.. Give us a yell if you need anything =)
Cheers,
James and Aarthi
P.S. We're attaching the Production Timeline that we have come up with!
---------------------------------------------------------------
TEAM BREAKDOWN:
Producers:
Aarthi Sriram
James Daniel
Director:
Paul Garry
Marketing:
Kate Mills
Concept Team:
Leader:
Emily Bissland
Character Design:
Emily Day
Visual Treatment (Lighting, Mood, etc.)
Kate Mills
Lee (Unchalee Anantawat)
Level Design:
Ming Shyan Kuit
Qian Ying (Shelley) Chen
Yu-Kuan (Ray) Lu
Production Team
Textures and Interface:
Leader:
Jo Fong
Isaac Cafarella
Tzu Wei Chang (Tony)
Wenke (Alan) Jiang
Xaio (Ada) Tong Wang
3D:
Leader:
Thittaya (Cherry) Thiensunchai
Modelling and Lighting:
Chuan Keng (Kenneth) Wei
Reece Schubert
Shreyas Deshpande
Zhi Yiun (Joyce) Cui
Animation and Rigging:
Bhavpreet Kaur Ghai
Moon Sun Lee
Peter Lowey
Sound:
Reece Schubert
Visual Effects:
Shreyas
Engine Team:
Leader:
Sam Samai
All-Hamel (Mike) Ghanem
Amy Thomas
Cordellia Brown
Gerard Kelly
Mirza Mohd Eskandarian (Eski)
Pulindu (PJ) Wagaarachchige
Website Development:
Shelley
---------------------------------------------------------------
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Andy's Advice!
Andy Buchanan (one of our Execs!) has sent us a few articles to mull over. Check 'em out!
http://www.theage.com.au/news/games/rewriting-the-script/2007/04/10/1175971104271.html
http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=264375
http://www.theage.com.au/news/games/fun-and-games/2007/04/08/1175970930924.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap2
Andy's word of advice: "Go nuts! with your concepts. AND remember YOU MUST GET PLAYING IN THE GAMESPACE. Lots!"
http://www.theage.com.au/news/games/rewriting-the-script/2007/04/10/1175971104271.html
http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=264375
http://www.theage.com.au/news/games/fun-and-games/2007/04/08/1175970930924.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap2
Andy's word of advice: "Go nuts! with your concepts. AND remember YOU MUST GET PLAYING IN THE GAMESPACE. Lots!"
Player Motivation!
I picked up a book on gameplay and design from the library and found a section on player motivation which I thought you might find useful to know as well. Here is a summary:
Each task in your game must have a victory condition with a reward of some kind. This will motivate the player to complete the task.
The values of the task must be seen to be worth striving for.
Always make the player feel like he can actually do the task.
Include various types of motivational devices to lure the player into your game.
Always inform the player of his next goal and tell the player the value of the reward (i.e what they will receive) for reaching the goal.
Make the goals progressive and the rewards equally progressive.
Regards,
Sam
Each task in your game must have a victory condition with a reward of some kind. This will motivate the player to complete the task.
The values of the task must be seen to be worth striving for.
Always make the player feel like he can actually do the task.
Include various types of motivational devices to lure the player into your game.
Always inform the player of his next goal and tell the player the value of the reward (i.e what they will receive) for reaching the goal.
Make the goals progressive and the rewards equally progressive.
Regards,
Sam
Sunday, April 15, 2007
Emailing Protocols!
Hey guys!
To make things easier for all while sending out emails, we have created groups in the Terra Transeo Gmail account contacts list. So when you send out an email to any of the teams, you would just need to type in any of these respectively to send it to all your colleagues!
'TT Producers' - Note: This includes the Executive Producers as well.
'TT Concept'
'TT Production'
'TT Engine'
'TT Team Leaders'
'RMIT Staff'
OR if you intend to send an email to all of the 2007 batch, type 'AIM 2007'.
Please follow this as this would help us -Paul and the Producers- keep tab with whats happening.
Also, the Concept team is meeting tomorrow at 8:45 AM to brainstorm a few ideas ahead of a session with the Engine team at 1:30 PM where they would give a brief of what they've come up with until now. And how they're plotting their vision.
So see y'll tomorrow!
The Producers
To make things easier for all while sending out emails, we have created groups in the Terra Transeo Gmail account contacts list. So when you send out an email to any of the teams, you would just need to type in any of these respectively to send it to all your colleagues!
'TT Producers' - Note: This includes the Executive Producers as well.
'TT Concept'
'TT Production'
'TT Engine'
'TT Team Leaders'
'RMIT Staff'
OR if you intend to send an email to all of the 2007 batch, type 'AIM 2007'.
Please follow this as this would help us -Paul and the Producers- keep tab with whats happening.
Also, the Concept team is meeting tomorrow at 8:45 AM to brainstorm a few ideas ahead of a session with the Engine team at 1:30 PM where they would give a brief of what they've come up with until now. And how they're plotting their vision.
So see y'll tomorrow!
The Producers
Friday, April 13, 2007
Teams!
Executive Producers
Andy Buchanan
Laura Hunter
Toshi Endo
Director
Paul Garry
Producers
Aarthi Sriram
James Daniel
Concept Team
Leader:
Emily Bissland
Emily Day
Kate Mills
Lee (Unchalee Anantawat)
Ming Shyan Kuit
Qian Ying (Shelley) Chen
Yu-Kuan (Ray) Lu
Production Team
Leaders:
Jo Fong
Thittaya (Cherry) Thiensunchai
All-Hamel (Mike) Ghanem
Bhavpreet Kaur Ghai
Chuan Keng (Kenneth) Wei
Isaac Cafarella
Moon Sun Lee
Peter Lowey
Reece Schubert
Shreyas Deshpande
Tzu Wei Chang (Tony)
Xaio (Ada) Tong Wang
Zhi Yiun (Joyce) Cui
Engine Team
Leader:
Sam Samai
Amy Thomas
Cordellia Brown
Gerard Kelly
Mirza Mohd Eskandarian (Eski)
Pulindu (PJ) Wagaarachchige
Wenke (Alan) Jiang
Marketing: Kate Mills
Website Development: TBA
Sound: TBA
Music: TBA
Lighting: TBA
Andy Buchanan
Laura Hunter
Toshi Endo
Director
Paul Garry
Producers
Aarthi Sriram
James Daniel
Concept Team
Leader:
Emily Bissland
Emily Day
Kate Mills
Lee (Unchalee Anantawat)
Ming Shyan Kuit
Qian Ying (Shelley) Chen
Yu-Kuan (Ray) Lu
Production Team
Leaders:
Jo Fong
Thittaya (Cherry) Thiensunchai
All-Hamel (Mike) Ghanem
Bhavpreet Kaur Ghai
Chuan Keng (Kenneth) Wei
Isaac Cafarella
Moon Sun Lee
Peter Lowey
Reece Schubert
Shreyas Deshpande
Tzu Wei Chang (Tony)
Xaio (Ada) Tong Wang
Zhi Yiun (Joyce) Cui
Engine Team
Leader:
Sam Samai
Amy Thomas
Cordellia Brown
Gerard Kelly
Mirza Mohd Eskandarian (Eski)
Pulindu (PJ) Wagaarachchige
Wenke (Alan) Jiang
Marketing: Kate Mills
Website Development: TBA
Sound: TBA
Music: TBA
Lighting: TBA
good start!
Hey there terras
looking forward to the first meeting with the production team. If you need assistance or anything at any time I can be reached on 0424 320 204 and my email is andybuchanan@gmail.com you can add me to the contact list if you like.
rock on!
andy
looking forward to the first meeting with the production team. If you need assistance or anything at any time I can be reached on 0424 320 204 and my email is andybuchanan@gmail.com you can add me to the contact list if you like.
rock on!
andy
Welcome to Terra Transeo
Hello all =)
We've kicked off our collaborative group project 'Terra Transeo'! The concept team had their first meeting yesterday with Paul and did a bit of brainstorming. They met up today as well to consoldiate on a few ideas and lay out what they're aiming for. They've done an awesome job so far!
We've created an email address terratranseo@gmail.com and a blog http://terratranseo.blogspot.com to keep abreast on whats happening on a daily basis.
Username : terratranseo
Password : students07
The username and password for both are the same.
We are attaching a list of contact details as well. Its been broken down into teams as well for convenience. If we've gotten your details wrong or you want to be contacted on some other email addresses please do let us know. This is crucial as we'd be sending out emails almost everyday on whats happening. So do let us know.
Anyone can post on the blog and comment on it and it shall be used as one of the primary ways to contact people and pin up instructions. So keep a lookout for updates! Please ensure you use your name while signing off a post or comment, so that we can put a face to the person posting.
We've also designed a timesheet in Excel that can be used to log hours of work. You would just have to input the hours and it would automatically add up the hours daily and output a total project tally for you. There is another worksheet in it which you would essentially use to let us know what you've done and how you've saved out the files, etc.
Please save your copy of the timesheets with the naming convention as follows:
yourName_TT_TimeSheet.xls
e.g. aarthiSriram_TT_TimeSheet.xls
We'd be meeting again to discuss hours and tasks in detail but those in the concept team, please do keep a tally of the number of hours you've worked so far.
Rock on guys!
More later, cheers!
James and Aarthi
We've kicked off our collaborative group project 'Terra Transeo'! The concept team had their first meeting yesterday with Paul and did a bit of brainstorming. They met up today as well to consoldiate on a few ideas and lay out what they're aiming for. They've done an awesome job so far!
We've created an email address terratranseo@gmail.com and a blog http://terratranseo.blogspot.com to keep abreast on whats happening on a daily basis.
Username : terratranseo
Password : students07
The username and password for both are the same.
We are attaching a list of contact details as well. Its been broken down into teams as well for convenience. If we've gotten your details wrong or you want to be contacted on some other email addresses please do let us know. This is crucial as we'd be sending out emails almost everyday on whats happening. So do let us know.
Anyone can post on the blog and comment on it and it shall be used as one of the primary ways to contact people and pin up instructions. So keep a lookout for updates! Please ensure you use your name while signing off a post or comment, so that we can put a face to the person posting.
We've also designed a timesheet in Excel that can be used to log hours of work. You would just have to input the hours and it would automatically add up the hours daily and output a total project tally for you. There is another worksheet in it which you would essentially use to let us know what you've done and how you've saved out the files, etc.
Please save your copy of the timesheets with the naming convention as follows:
yourName_TT_TimeSheet.xls
e.g. aarthiSriram_TT_TimeSheet.xls
We'd be meeting again to discuss hours and tasks in detail but those in the concept team, please do keep a tally of the number of hours you've worked so far.
Rock on guys!
More later, cheers!
James and Aarthi
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