Dev log 7 (Oct 23 - Nov 5):

* Dev Log 7 covers two weeks due to Reading Week

Overall progress:

• Conducted additional playtests:
  • Individual playtesting
    
  • Ubisoft playtest
• Designed 3 new levels.
• Aggregated feedback from previous playtests.
  

Art team:

• Finalized all asset models and UVs.
• Finalized game title design and UI designs.
• Finalized character model and UVs.

Music team:

• Began work on background music and put a plan in place for dynamic layering.
  
• Identified issues with synchronization and looping.

Programming team:

• Fixed identified bugs.
• Implemented new assets.
• Implemented new levels.
• Implemented AI hint system.
• Implemented control popups.
• Implemented the option to highlight level differences.
• Separated SFX, Master and Music volume sliders.
• Smoothened movement by giving player acceleration.
• Implemented memory of player settings and progress.
• Implemented continue option.
• Made tile colours alternate.
• Implemented occlusion for the player.
• Made hidden walls update on rotation.
• Implemented trap door.
• Removed manual desync.

Challenges:

• Designing an efficient AI hint system:
  • Tried to precompute solutions in build but ran into issues with data persistence.
  • AI hint system needs to keep up with mechanical changes.
• Avoiding duplication in occlusion shader of boxes.
  • All boxes using the same occlusion shader causes minor visual quirks.
• Coordinating the undo system for more specific action types.

Future plans:

• Polish all asset textures.
• Implement assets and decorate all levels.
• Finalize the list of SFX and implement them.
  
• Determine the final “roadmap” of levels and plan background music accordingly.
• Identify and resolve issues with consistency.
• Determine a plan for reverb, volume normalization, etc that works for implementation.
• Resolve issues with synchronization and looping in music.
  
• Fix more bugs.
  
• Implement tutorial.
• Implement new assets.

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