Week 5 (Oct 9 - Oct 15):

Overall progress:

• Began official playtesting and gathering feedback.
• Improved pre-existing level designs.

Art team:

• Started texturing assets.
• Worked on a placeholder for the UI.
• Created character model.
• Rigged and animated the character.

Music team:

• Completed basic sound design, focusing on sound effects.

Programming team:

• Fixed various bugs.
• Added control rebinding.
• Added level select.
• Began creating formal documentation of code.

Challenges:

• Balancing volume balance.
• Balancing time between other work and this project.
• Unable to notice several bugs before playtesting.
  • Some bugs are hard to reproduce (and thus hard to solve) due to only occurring in builds or with specific instances of race conditions.

Future plans:

• Improve audio balance by controlling peak/loudness.
• Creating the actual level soundtrack.
• Learning how to implement audio in Unity.
• Polishing the assets and character for our game.
• Implementing a hint system through puzzle-solving AI.
• Implementing an undo system.