Kevin's Log - July 25, 2002
Well things are rolling along. It is nice to have the music in the game. It adds
a lot to overall feel of the game when the music is speeding up near the end and
so on.
I think maybe the transitions between the ?moods? of the music is a little too subtle. But then again music isn?t my thing, I just expected to have a more pronounced point made when I start losing or winning. I am sure this is something Saul is keeping his eye on though and as it starts getting played by the beta testers he will finally get the return input he has had to work without for so long. I?m sure its made his job harder, not having more input since the music system was one of the later elements to be implemented.
Jason is working out really well. He is just as freaky as the rest of us and likes being here hammering on things. It's good when you find people who are just as obsessed as you are to work with you!
The environments are all working out really nicely. There are two added arenas to the list making for a total of ten now instead of 8. I have more ideas as well and if other arenas go in as fast as the last two have then we could end up with many more by release.
One of the newest arena?s is being played by the beta testers now, and I want to commend them all on not telling the general board members about it. We asked them not to and they didn?t, so you guys ROCK OUT!
Just for fun I figured I would post an image of the very newest arena, that not even the beta testers have gotten a glimpse of. Since we don?t get to spend as much time on the regular message board, we feel a bit guilty.
Anyway, there should be new arena preview images up sometime soon. And new arenas in general being worked out and eventually worked on, so there should be a lot more content in the game than we originally planned for. The ideas about workflow that we have been applying over time have really come to fruition at this point since making environments is getting very fast and resulting in very nice work.
I?m pretty proud of what we have accomplished so far. It?s really going to be a good game. Of course it?s a pretty ambitious project all around I am confident it can and will be appreciated by the majority of people who try it out!
We have worked too hard at this point to let it suck! LOL.
I think maybe the transitions between the ?moods? of the music is a little too subtle. But then again music isn?t my thing, I just expected to have a more pronounced point made when I start losing or winning. I am sure this is something Saul is keeping his eye on though and as it starts getting played by the beta testers he will finally get the return input he has had to work without for so long. I?m sure its made his job harder, not having more input since the music system was one of the later elements to be implemented.
Jason is working out really well. He is just as freaky as the rest of us and likes being here hammering on things. It's good when you find people who are just as obsessed as you are to work with you!
The environments are all working out really nicely. There are two added arenas to the list making for a total of ten now instead of 8. I have more ideas as well and if other arenas go in as fast as the last two have then we could end up with many more by release.
One of the newest arena?s is being played by the beta testers now, and I want to commend them all on not telling the general board members about it. We asked them not to and they didn?t, so you guys ROCK OUT!
Just for fun I figured I would post an image of the very newest arena, that not even the beta testers have gotten a glimpse of. Since we don?t get to spend as much time on the regular message board, we feel a bit guilty.
Anyway, there should be new arena preview images up sometime soon. And new arenas in general being worked out and eventually worked on, so there should be a lot more content in the game than we originally planned for. The ideas about workflow that we have been applying over time have really come to fruition at this point since making environments is getting very fast and resulting in very nice work.
I?m pretty proud of what we have accomplished so far. It?s really going to be a good game. Of course it?s a pretty ambitious project all around I am confident it can and will be appreciated by the majority of people who try it out!
We have worked too hard at this point to let it suck! LOL.
