https:\/\/e-jayy.itch.io\/haerenga<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\nProject Reflection<\/h2>\n\n\n\n Reflecting on this project as a whole, I believe I have made some significant growth in both creatvie and professional departments during the development of Haerenga. At the beginning of this journey, I approached my role purely from an illustrative point of view, not considering how my assets would look in game. However, as time progressed, I began to understand that art should compliment the environment and funcitonality of the game. Through constant collaboration with my team mate, iteration, testing, and failures, I developed a much stronger understanding of how the visual design I put out there supports gameplay and readability. Starting production was initially nerve wracking considering that this was our final project and I wanted to make something that reflects my 3 years here at Winchester. I joined E-Jay’s bandwagon as I believe that both of our opposing strengths would uplift and make eahc other’s skills shine even more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One of my biggest strengths throughout this project was definitely how strong mine and EJ’s communication was. However since we both specialise in the opposite disciplines, our thoughts and words would get lost in translation. Either way, constant communication was essential in ensuring that the game play systems and visual design worked together harmoniously. Our discussions revolved around collisions, platforming, readability, environments, character, dialogue, and the small details that add up to make the experience only that more enjoyable. Having these constant discussions helped me adapt my artistic decisions in order to fit the game play requirements and limitations. I truly believe our communication and constant feedback was our greatest strength and it’s apparent through all of our screenshots. This constant collaboration mirrors industry practices, and has further strengthened my knowledge in problem solving, time management, and how to adapt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Throughout this development, I have also become more confident in my own workflow. Early in production, I struggled with constant indecisiveness and not knowing if the decision I had made, was the right call. Due to strict deadlines and scope of the project, I learnt hoq quickly it is to plan and prioritise what needed to be done. As a direct result, I became more decisive when creating concepts and producing assets. This had greatly improved efficiency and becomes more apparent as the project progresses, most prevelant when I was making backgorund assets and backgrounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Another major area of growth for me was understanding implementation focused art creation. This included creating work such as UI, tile sets, sprite sheets, and particle effects had pushes me outside of my comfort zone and forced me to think more techically about my work and how it would be seen in game. Instead of focusing purely on aesthetics, I needed to consider factors such as readability, scale, and collisions. Testing these assets in game would prove the importance of iterative work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, no other feedback was greater than playtesting and seeing what our peers and the public think of our game and how they would navigate it. Observing others interact the game helped me understand the importance of accessibility and environmental readability. Some players struggled to figure out where to go next or found certain platforming sections too difficult to complete, this showed that level guidance is necessary for level design in games. Playtesting taught me that creating immersive worlds is not only about visual direction, but making levels hard enough for players to complete and feel rewarded afterwards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One of the biggest personal achievements I have made is engaging in areas of my discipline that I am not entirely confident in. This primarily included working in animation. Involving in this medium was difficult at first, but as soon as I applied an animators workflow to my work, it became less daunting. While these animations are relatively simple, I believe the style that they’re animated in contributes to the hand drawn art style we wanted to achieve in the first place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Looking back at this project, it has been my most valuable one yet at Winchester School of Arts. It refined my artistic abilities but it also helped me gain a deeper understanding of collaborative game production pipelines, implementation, and professional practices. But above all, it reinforced my passion for creating immersive game worlds and showed me how much I truly enjoy visual storytelling and interactive design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thank you for reading along!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(Our Miro board)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nI decided to make another sprint as I was technically done with the big tasks. This sprint will be dedicated to improving the visual quality of the game and adding small unplanned assets. MUST GET DONE: Could have: Sky Assets for Wayfinding Mechanic Starting this sprint with the mechanic that formed the idea of this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sprint"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23-yr3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23-yr3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23-yr3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23-yr3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23-yr3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1483"}],"version-history":[{"count":46,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23-yr3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1695,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23-yr3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483\/revisions\/1695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23-yr3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23-yr3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23-yr3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}