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WEEK9 Summary

Hello,

This week we have chosen two new concept arts. The first is to illustrate the way we want the hell dog to look like:

The second is for the demons:

We also worked on the main menu concept art and came up with this:

We though about a dynamic background that would change according to the player choice in the main story. Above is an example of what should look like the main menu when the player joined the devil's force.

We also though about a new gamemode called "Taking Control". This is the most inovative gamemode that we have so far. There will be two teams of four players. Each team member will have to gather souls by killing AI for his team. When a certain amount of soul have been gathered, the members of the team will be able to unlock new powers to take down the opposite base.

WEEK8 Summary

Hey,

this week we started to work on the user interface.We thought about what options should be available in the main menu.

The next thing is about describing the main cut-scenes of the game. We have got a total of 5 cut-scence described right now: 2 endings, the intro, the first time the player will meet with the devil and the first time the player will meet with the angels.

Stephen also worked on a new concept art for the main character in the good side:


Finally, we have made the game overview which will be available at the start of the document.
The document is now 18 pages long.

WEEK7 Summary

Hello,

This week we really worked hard on the document. 

The first thing is that we went more in detailling the technology that would be used for the animation in the game. As we want a realistic visual style, we though that the animation for the characters should be done using motion capture.

Now that we had our paths for the storyline, we went more in detailling the four ending of the game.
Ending example:
1) Evil ending: Hero kills anyone that stands in his way of becoming master of the world.
- The hero does not believe the angels and performs the task for the devil to save his wife.
- He ignores the warnings of angels and continues to work for the devil.
- His soul is corrupted and the devil makes ​​him take the ultimate test; to kill his wife.
- No longer feeling any guilt for what he does, his rage and lust for power become uncontrollable.
- He rebels against the devil, destroys him and all the demons.
- Archangels see him as a threat and decide to kill him.
- The hero fights against them and lost. Archangels, in an excess of pride leave him for dead, saying he is not a major threat.
- The hero recovers from his injuries and goes to Heaven to hunt down the archangels.
- He kills all the angels in his path and finally manages to get to the archangels.
- During the final duel, the hero manages to kill the archangels.
- The hero becomes the master of an apocalyptic world.

We also worked more on the different gamemodes of the game. For the single player gamemodes, the "Campaign" will allow the player to follow the captivating story. Since we have multiple endings, the game can be done in many ways to add re-playability.
The next gamemode is the "Endless survival" gamemode. This one will allow the player to fight against waves of enemies without any ending. The more the player kill enemies, the more he will be able to unlock new powers.

For the multiplayer component of the game, we did some research on the internet and found that what most players want to do in multiplayer, is to fight together versus the AI. So decided to focus  this feature for all our multiplayer gamemodes.
The first gamemode is a multiplayer version of the "Endless survival".
The second is called "Competitive". The main concept is about the same as any deathmatch mode from any game but, with random events on the map such as AI spawning and joining the fight between players.

That's it for this week, a lot of content has been added this week and our document is now 12 pages long.

WEEK6 Summary

Hello,

we had some problems this week, we were only two on the labs. This is why we have only 1 more page from the last week.

Basicaly we have filled some parts, rephrased some draft sentences etc... . A lot of task to make the document clearer and more professional.