A Mother's Call

Introduction

A narrative sidescroller set in the Antarctica. This is a game being developed as an entry to Women in games Jam.

Workflow Conventions

Folder Naming

• Never use Spaces in names.
• Use PascalCase.
• Prefer a deep folder structure over having long asset names. Directory names should be as concise as possible, prefer one or two words. If a directory name is too long, it probably makes sense to split it into sub directories.
• Try to have only one file type per folder. Use Textures/Trees, Models/Trees and not Trees/Textures, Trees/Models. That way its easy to set up root directories for the different software involved, for example, Substance Painter would always be set to save to the Textures directory.
• Use the asset type for the parent directory: Trees/Jungle, Trees/City not Jungle/Trees, City/Trees. Since it makes it easier to compare similar assets from different art sets to ensure continuity across art sets.

Asset Naming

• Keep the most specific descriptor to the last: VampireDark and not DarkVampire, TreeSmall and not SmallTree.

• For textures use the following suffixes:

  Suffix	Texture
  _D	Albedo
  _S	Specular
  _R	Roughness
  _M	Metallic
  _N	Normal
  _H	Height
  _B	Displacement/Bump
  _E	Emission
  _AO	Ambient Occlusion
  _Mask	Mask

  It is good practice to use a single texture to combine black and white masks in a single texture split by each RGB channel. For such texture combine the suffixes in the order of RGB.

Directory Structure

Assets
+---Art
|   +---Materials
|   +---Models      # FBX and BLEND files
|   +---Textures    # PNG files
+---Audio
|   +---Music
|   \---Sound       # Samples and sound effects
+---Code
|   +---Scripts     # C# scripts
|   \---Shaders     # Shader files and shader graphs
+---Narrative       # The narrative arc and ink scripts.
+---Docs            # Wiki, concept art, marketing material
+---Level           # Anything related to game design in Unity
|   +---Prefabs
|   +---Scenes
|   \---UI
\---Resources       # Configuration files, localization text and other user files.

Credits

Third-party assets

The following assets were used as-is or with modifications in compliance to the licenses attached to them.

• "Stylized Low Poly Sci-Fi Buildings" by Robin Butler is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial.
• "Signpost" by Andre B. L. Vieira is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial.
• "Some geeks room" (https://skfb.ly/6UxoY) by SyedAfiq is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
• "Room" (https://skfb.ly/6Y7rr) by Sara Martín is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).