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MIDTERM
- choose a memory, or moment, or real-world real-life aspect of your life / daily routine / identity
- keep it small (you only have 3-4 weeks to do this), keep it short (1-4 minutes long)
- must have 1 interaction / mechanic / verb other than basic movement (e.g. jump, pick-up, vomit, sing, dance, etc.)
- must be "character based" (control a character in a game world)
- must use 3D assets (a "2.5D" game is OK)
- you must model at least one of each in Blender:
- a character (player or npc)
- gameplay object / powerup / pickup / item
- world object / decoration
- must maintain a Git repo on GitHub and update it each week, or I will give you a lower midterm grade you will be graded on:
Criteria:
- completeness; can we play the game from start to finish? did you do at least 3 models in Blender (a character, an environment object, a gameplay object/powerup)
- balanced production; did you iterate evenly on gameplay, art, etc? (if you did all art and no code,- that's bad -- if you did all code and no art / polish, that's also bad) (it's OK if the art is ugly, it's OK if the code has some bugs)
- basic usability; what are the controls? does the player to know what to do? do we know when the game is over, and if it has a lose state, is there a way to restart the game to try again? basically, can people play your game?
- reflection; on your project's itch.io page, you need 2 paragraphs in the "description":
- paragraph 1: describe your game, what do we do in it, why you chose the topic, etc.
- paragraph 2: describe the process of making your game, what was the funnest part for you and what was least fun to do, did you make any good decisions or bad decisions?
- CONSTRAINTS:
- NO TERRAIN TOOL (if you want terrain, model it in Blender)
- NO UNITY STANDARD ASSETS (make + texture your own assets in Blender, with textures you've made / sourced yourself)
- NO CODE FROM THE ASSET STORE (roll your own code using the techniques we've covered.)
PERMITTED OUTSIDE RESOURCES:
- SOUND / SFX - source music and sound from wherever you'd like, or make it yourself.
- SITUATIONAL GENERIC TEXTURES (grass, plaster, wood, metal, concrete, etc).
If you need wood for a wooden chair, a google image search should suffice.
As always... SCOPE RESPONSIBLY
Example Finished Projects (these all took ~a month to make)
https://lukebrockmann.itch.io/airport-anarchy
https://dataecto.itch.io/mind-cleaning
https://annamariakoshy.itch.io/midterm-game
https://azhcreates.itch.io/mental-checklist
you can update / patch your game afterwards, but there is no guarantee that I'll grade it after you patch it if you are sick / have a bad life situation / overwhelming workload, Slack DM me by Sunday 6:59pm for a possible extension on your due date