{"id":290,"date":"2026-04-02T12:31:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T12:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/er7g24\/?p=290"},"modified":"2026-05-12T17:36:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T17:36:48","slug":"daydream-personal-diary-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/er7g24\/2026\/04\/02\/daydream-personal-diary-5\/","title":{"rendered":"DAYDREAM PERSONAL DIARY #5 PRODUCTION"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This week was very tough for me to endure due to the numerous miscommunications that had entailed leading up to the playtest on Thursday. Seeing the projects the other teams had developed made me realise how far behind we were. Which is especially concerning as I think our game has one of the highest scope as it&#8217;s a 3D puzzle game with an emphasis on visuals and mechanics. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That being said, we were only on a slight setback and not a complete failure. After all, we had the foundation established with robust movement mechanics and an environment that we could navigate. As well as this, we had an inventory system with the ability to pick up and drop items. Our positive feedback was praise on the movements, but criticism consisted of the glitches with the perspective and the lack of objective.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" data-id=\"291\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/er7g24\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2026\/04\/image-8-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/er7g24\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2026\/04\/image-8-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/er7g24\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2026\/04\/image-8-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/er7g24\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2026\/04\/image-8-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/er7g24\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2026\/04\/image-8-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/er7g24\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2026\/04\/image-8-2048x1152.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"724\" data-id=\"284\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/er7g24\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2026\/04\/image-6-1024x724.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/er7g24\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2026\/04\/image-6-1024x724.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/er7g24\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2026\/04\/image-6-300x212.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/er7g24\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2026\/04\/image-6-768x543.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/er7g24\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2026\/04\/image-6-1536x1086.png 1536w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/er7g24\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2026\/04\/image-6.png 2002w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"552\" data-id=\"298\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/er7g24\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2026\/04\/image-15-1024x552.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/er7g24\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2026\/04\/image-15-1024x552.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/er7g24\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2026\/04\/image-15-300x162.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/er7g24\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2026\/04\/image-15-768x414.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/er7g24\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2026\/04\/image-15-1536x827.png 1536w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/er7g24\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2026\/04\/image-15-2048x1103.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This was the map that Jeremy made, it bore no resemblance to my concept art and I was incredibly confused because I didn&#8217;t know what had gone wrong with our communication. As well as this, it appeared that our game genre had changed into a platformer or roblox obby instead of a puzzle game. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> I felt frustrated because there was no attempt to question or clarify any of the work I had put time into making. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On my end, I wasn&#8217;t completely perfect, I was slow with my response times and could&#8217;ve made myself clearer. I also should&#8217;ve made my concept art a bit more coherent with its annotations. But it didn&#8217;t excuse discarding my concept art with no communication at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I believe our team needed better communication as our workflows are very dependent on one another.\u00a0 The language barrier was the biggest obstacle in this, as varying English proficiency in our team made misunderstandings common and probably lowered an overall frustration threshold. It&#8217;s extremely easy to confuse or lose tone over text so on top of working through miscommunications and criticism, I was very aware of how I could accidentally alienate people in the group with my language and\/or tone. Even after very long exchanges on slack, I still felt as though we hadn&#8217;t fully deconstructed the issue so it was pretty demotivating and I lost a lot of energy to work on this project. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I knew that some issues would be inevitable so it wasn&#8217;t very surprising as game development is incredibly complicated and difficult. All in all, I felt like I learnt something in teamwork and the importance of rigorous communication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week was very tough for me to endure due to the numerous miscommunications that had entailed leading up to the playtest on Thursday. Seeing the projects the other teams had developed made me realise how far behind we were. Which is especially concerning as I think our game has one of the highest scope [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,27,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daydream-blog","category-production","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/er7g24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/er7g24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/er7g24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/er7g24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/er7g24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/er7g24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":370,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/er7g24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions\/370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/er7g24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/er7g24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/er7g24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/er7g24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}