Regardless of the project management method used (Agile or Waterfall), feedback from stakeholders is incredibly vital to the success of the project. By gathering feedback at appropriate stages of the project, corrective action can be taken therefore saving wasted time and headaches for all involved. Here are a couple of examples used in the process…
Repeatable and Scalable Events
Within almost any game there are actions that players take that are repeated. These can be as simple as moving from one room to another or can be as complex as repeat enemy encounters when walking through a dungeon. In role-playing games, these will often scale in difficulty or complexity depending on the player items,…
Turning Dialogue into a Game
The current development process for the game “Stories of a GeoFarmer” is broken down into the following teams: Research team Dialogue team Design team Development team The research team has completed the necessary components for the dialogue and design teams to complete their portions of the work and the initial dialogue is beginning to trickle…
Creating a Cohesive Game
As the writing team and teaching team are finishing up the dialogue and learning objectives respectively, the question turns to how to implement within the confines of the game engine. In other words, how will the game actually play? What mechanics will pair with what objectives? What story outcomes will be based off of which…
Adjusting for New Learning Objectives
New Artwork is Fully Loaded The past few weeks have been dedicated to loading the new custom art into GeoFarmer and preparing for the upcoming game development. Now that the artwork for character sprites and character profiles is fully loaded, the big task for version two of GeoFarmer turns to updating the game for the…
Introducing GeoFarmer
September 6th, 2022 The game I am currently working on is titled “Stories of a GeoFarmer” and it attempts to combine the addicting mechanics of farming games like Harvest Moon or Stardew Valley with the complex economic and social systems of agricultural geography. The locale is set in Southeast Asia with the current “levels” being…