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I have handed out questionnaires when people have played the game for them to fill out giving us information on  what the game did well, what the game did bad and what the game could improve on.

Here is an example of the results from the questionnaires

And here is the feedback synopsis that I have written laying out clearly the results of the testing.

These are the bug reports I have found so far within testing the newest build.

I have done more bug testing and have concluded that these are the last remaining bugs within the game at this point, I will be testing it if anything further is added to make sure nothing new appears and if anything does I’ll wirte another report and forward that to the programmer.

I have talked with the lead programmer about what type of movement to implement into the game that would be the most comfortable to the player and would allow the player to make decisions quickly. Out of the two options that were discussed, one being that the player would be able to snap through 3 different lanes using swipes or key presses depending on what they are playing the game on and the other being that the player would be able to move at a continuous motion instead of snapping meaning they would take time to move to a different lane.

After discussing this we decided on using the snap movement, due to the player not being able to see further in front of themselves due to the camera being pointed backwards to see the boulder chasing them, making it so the objects come towards them so they have less time to see what's coming next unlike an infinite runner that puts the camera facing the opposite way making it so the player is looking at the obstacles and can see past them.

We have also discussed what the controls would be as we aim to have the game working on pc at minimum but would really like to have it on mobile devices as well. We decided that for pc we would use A and D keys to move left and right. We would also either use two ingame made buttons that are clicked on by the player or using the S key and spacebar to allow the player to jump and slide. We also decided that we would either use Hotkeys in Q and E for artifact powers.

Tasks Completed In the time given:

Create generic scene in game with environment, box and camera

Implement player moving left and right, pausing, restarting and exiting

Implement user interface system

Implement script to automatically move forwards

Implement lose state ui menu that appears on incurring loss state

Introduce obstacles into environment

Implement mechanic whereby colliding with obstacles incurs loss state

Introduce rewards into environment

Implement mechanic whereby colliding with rewards increases player score

Create Main Menu

Create Options Menu

Create Shop Menu

Implement Ui buttons in main menu to load game, options and shop scene

Implement Ui for shop

Implement progression tracking via distance the player has travelled

Implementation script to continuously generate generic environment

Implement mechanic that calculates final score based on distance traveled

Introduce variety of new environment “chunks” for procedural generation

How I felt I did in completing these tasks:

I feel that I have been able to show all of these mechanics in the prototype so far and had struggled to get some of them to work at first for example when I was creating the menus at first it would open up on the options menu which was a problem as the player would be confused why they started out in the options menu and not the main menu, so after changing some lines of code and nothing improving i noticed that the main menu was hidden and the options was not so I changed that around and then it had fixed it and the main menu was the first screen seen. I could of also solved this by setting the main menu to be active first and that when the button was clicked the options menu would activate and the main menu would deactivate. I found it very hard to get my head around generating the “chunks” in the game environment so I delegated this task to josh as he had a greater understand and was easily able to implement it and was also able to explain to me how it was generating the environment. I also struggled to Implement the tracker of how far the player had gone in score but after looking through the internet I realised I could do it in Update making it so the player score would go up by 1 every update. I then increased the player's speed making it look like the score was counting at the right speed and I also felt the player was moving too slow making it too easy for them. 

Basic Audio Sound ideas:

From looking at the design of the prototype I have looked at different sounds such as city sounds of traffic for ambience and using a car crash sound for when the player dies and using the sound of money falling or a coin sound for when the player gets currency in the game. As the game would end up having multiple different vehicles I would have to have different engine sounds and crash sounds for them. I would also be adding in dynamic sounds like police sirens and police call outs to make the player feel more like they are being chased.

Radio/Music Player idea :

After discussing with my team, we came up with the idea of creating a radio or music player within the game which would play different tracks whilst the player is playing as this would make the player feel as if they are driving a car or other vehicle and would add more entertainment to the game as people would hear songs they liked. Also people would be able to unlock further radio stations or tracks as they progress in the game.

How I feel about the mechanics I will have to implement:

I feel that the mechanics that I have to implement in this prototype should be achievable in the time frame set and that the majority if not all essential mechanics will be in the prototype. If any time is spare for me to progress further I will be adding In some optional features like an upgrades screen and a radio/music player to the prototype. What I have done so far with the prototype:

So far I have looked through the previous prototypes before this one and have watched several different videos on how I would code the mechanics of the game. I have also discussed with my team members and project lead about the different mechanics making sure that I know what my task is. I have also discussed with the lead designer any design changes such as the camera being changed from a top down perspective to a third person perspective and have resolved these inquiries swiftly and efficiently.