#assignmenttask2

My final "racing" game produced a very raw product of what I wanted DDR to look like. So, in my free time, I decided to incorporate the pixel art I designed into my final game! Unfortunately, I have built upon that original product to produce Assignment Task 3 and therefore cannot showcase its original form.

Apart from this, I was able to produce my final One Sheet and One Page for Assignment Task 2. The One Sheet, shown below, came out to be exactly what I wanted aesthetically. A combination of Photoshop and Publisher helped me to produce a poster I am more than proud to call my own design. All of the assets used were completely original, apart from the font which was provided by one of the internets many resources.

As for my One Page, or as I like to call it the Dev Document, I was equally impressed with myself! I can admit that there is a lot going on, and yet I still feel as though I didn't have enough information. In the end, I believe that the Dev Doc had a good mix of visual elements and mechanical evidence.

After expressing my interest in a DDR clone to my tutor and grasping at straws to connect the rhythm mechanic to that of the Racing Games Mechanic; I got to work.

The original idea for my game was a basic 4 lane game were the arrows "notes" moving down a set y-axis at various times. This randomness was decided by GDevelop since it would have been too time consuming to hard code an actual song. This code came down to this:

One thing I have noticed with GDevelop is its many, many limitations. Hitboxes, and hit recognition, are very lenient and allow players to spam an arrow before the arrow has completely covered its respective point.

This will be something I will work on in the final design of the game if chosen for Assignment Task 3!

Keeping in mind that Assignment Task 2 had recently been released, I decided to run with my common theme of Dance Dance Retribution. I sketched up a design for my One Sheet, as seen below, and got to work on the graphical side of my game. Producing these "Screen Captures" of what I wanted the final product to look like: