#student game dev

That's... Very hard to narrow down into one singular bit of advice that sucked...

One that is a bit controversial, but I'm tired of hearing; "Your employer can fire you at any time, you don't need to put in a notice when you quit." This... Is useful advice but not for the games industry.

Because the recruiters in the industry all talk; it absolutely will fuck your career if you dip without saying shit. Doesn't have to be a two weeks notice- even a week's notice will still at least ensure you leave your employer on a sort-of okay note. It fucking sucks, man, but it do be like that out there.

Here is some good advice for interviews; instead of telling them your expected salary when they ask- hit them back with a follow up question "let me get back to you on that- What is your current budget for this position?" But do get back to them within a day or two, armed with knowledge of their budget. Not having your salary negotiated properly can mean the difference of whether you're living with four walls and a roof or in your car. You don't wanna tell them you want $40k (USD) a year, and find out from someone else that their budget was actually fucking $90k- and proceed to dye your shorts brown- but you didn't ask in your interview so you're S.O.L.

This is advice that I could remember from experienced devs from off the top of my head. I often hear stories from folks, and I tend to ask a lot of questions. Here's to hoping it helps me out too.

Good luck to us both; we may be up against each other in the employment pool, among many others. Even my own instructors could be my competition. It's both scary and somewhat motivating though.

I’ve made some more animations (fall, swim, better jump) and found some good 2D water someone made for free!!

I have,, no idea how to animate a scent trail for player to follow (was thinking in the air like in cartoons but AUGH)

Sooo suggestions for how to track down the ‘treasures’ would be nice! Or if ppl know of any pixel art animation tutorials that could possibly help that’d be gr8 as well :,3

I made a Notion page for myself to track what I need to do now!

So I know I need to make a walk animation and run animation which r the most important ones rn. Then it’s a dig, sniff, shake (off water), possibly also roll around but that one might be a lot more difficult,,,

Also need to make animation for hole being dug and a dirt pile piling up,,, which have to be part of the digging stuff but also need to stay there at the last frame once stuff has been dug up.

Yeah <3 the digging is gonna be complicated me thinks :,3 but!! Purely bc I’m not experienced with setting up animations in Unity (yet!!!)

For our first sprint my first priority was to get the whole team on the same page on what the experience of our game is. To assist with that I created a game outline of the first five acts. This is more than we plan to make for our project but eventually we hope to complete all 8 acts. This outline simply highlights the key game play moments without the narrative.

To expand on this document I put together a sheet that shows each weapon (including real world reference, damage and details), character and enemy. For the enemies I included their background and attacks.

I also created a Scrumwise to help organise the team and maintain an Agile methodology. This is software we have used countless times and each time it has proven to greatly improve productivity within the team.

Finally to allow members to collaborate easily from home I set up a discord server.