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Meeting Notes

Kyler Li edited this page Feb 15, 2023 · 15 revisions

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Meetings notes have been shifted to a folder in the Google Drive.

12/16/2022

Agenda

  • New member!
  • Meeting notes location
  • Check in
  • Talk about workload

Meetings notes

  • Now in Google docs

Art

  • Decided on blue background
  • Kept rendering
  • Dividing into sections
  • Workload divvied in project
  • Terminology
    • Foreground is non asset foreground elements
    • Foreground assets are the tiles, detail stuff, etc.
    • Midground are layers in between the foreground
    • Background is the back most layer

Cat Design

  • Bingus
  • Dream cat?

Programming

  • Nothing

Sound

  • Finished 2-3 pieces of music (all in wiki)
    • Next layer 1 theme
    • Title
    • Layer 3 theme

12/9/2022

Agenda

  • Go over action items
  • Level creator!

Action Items

  • Fix level editor - Kyler
  • Figure out new artist - Regina
  • Get layer 1 concept fully finished - Diane and Regina
  • Continue to work on level design and music - David

Level creator

  • still has some bugs, will fix

Art

  • Current background has a beginning part, middle and end part
    • Middle part will be repeated/made so it can be repeated and well
  • Main art will be sort of Sky: Children of the Light themed

Music

  • Michael working on opening and layer 3
    • working on them at the same time for like motif stuff
  • Also working on layer 1

Character abilities

  • Night vision with POV (mentioned earlier in the notes) (second layer?)
  • As a cat, player has cat to do something that causes corruption to react (third layer?)
    • Tentacle in ground that would be like the red and blue blocks in super mario (where one is always out, and one is always in)
  • Hairball in cat form that shoots to like push a button or something (possible redundant?)
  • Cat can mutate or something to show eldritch influence (maybe)
    • Can go through areas they cant go through before
    • Increased movement?

12/2/2022

Agenda

  • Go over action items

Action Items

  • Create something cohesive of layer 1 with foreground bg and other stuff like that
  • Get level design done with tiles
  • Cat MC design - Regina
  • MC cat animations
    • Jump
    • Run
    • Wall hang
    • Wall jump
  • MC human animations
    • Jump
    • Run
    • Picking stuff up
    • Holding things
  • Different orientation tiles

New Song Draft

  • New one might be layer 1
  • Old one will probably be layer 2

Sound effects

  • Will be 8 bit to be more cutesy
  • Make the track 8 bit too

MC

  • Design is finished
  • Cape color might change

Layer 1 Design

  • Some tiles are finished
    • Rock with grass on top
    • Dirt with grass on top
  • Actual layer design also finished (in terms of gameplay)
  • Background design is finished too

11/25/2022

Agenda

  • Think of mechanics and puzzle elements for use within layer 1
  • Decide on the special cat feature
  • Decide on the main character's cat feature
  • Decide on how items will be represented on the character

Action Items

  • Sort out the Pinterest board - Regina
  • Work on MC design - Regina
  • Start designing layer 1 - Diana
  • Work on cat -> human and vice versa transitions - Michael
  • Continue working on music - David
  • uhhh chill or something idk - Kyler

Layer 1 Art

  • Grey cave house vibe
  • Light shining from holes in the wall of the pit
  • Forage taking over the houses and stuff

Art Style

  • Pixel or 2d art?
    • 2d art would take too long
    • Pixel with mix of 2d (if time allows)
  • Mysterious rather than cutesy
    • Fantasy mix

Abilities

  • Layer 1: Turn into cat
  • Layer 2: Claws for wall hanging (make level design much more vertical) ?
  • Layer 3: Night vision?

MC

  • Masked
    • Silent protagonist
  • No gender
  • Caped

Murals

  • Decide later whether we want to have murals or to tell story through environment only.

What will the special cat look like?

  • Bingus cats?
  • Cats with a third eye would be kinda random and unexplained

Dog easter egg :D

  • Just a random dog somewhere

11/19/2022

Action Items

  • By Wednesday, have 2-3 additional main character sketches - Regina
  • By Friday, have concept art of decided character in various poses - Regina
  • Basic movement for cat and human - Kyler