Trebuchet Games Ltd

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Dev Blog WE 6/12/2014

Welcome back to another weekly instalment of the indie developer blog.

Note: We have three games currently in production at different stages for the sake of this blog, until the games have been announced in more detail, they will be called Project A, B and C.

Week in Summary

It’s been a week of mix fortunes, some positives and some general meh moments. I started the week generally productive, where I continued working on the group dynamics screen. This has nearly been completed and is ready to get mocked up. I then moved onto working back on Project B’s editor, some very laborious work was required to update the editor from where I had stopped working on it about 3 weeks ago. Sometimes you find it better to move away from part of the project for a bit because when you get back to it, you suddenly question implementation. I’ve improved (for now) how I want it to work, and now hopefully i can get back to programming it. My aim is to have a working prototype by the end of December ready for when art production proper gets underway. It’s important to know exactly what will appear on screen, and though mockup’s are great, you never really know how something will work until you actually get it working on screen.

After Thursday, I felt too tired to do any more and pretty much stopped working on the computer. I gave blood on Friday evening and decided to take the evening off. Saturday I decided to watch both the Video Game Awards and the Sony Playstation experience streamed on TV. This took up about 6 hours to watch, but it was certainly fascinating seeing some of the indie games companies showing off their games.

So that’s about it for the week, not great, and I will certainly need to pick up the pace in the coming weeks to ensure i hit the ground running in the Christmas holidays.

Time-Spent

  • Working on Project B Group Dynamics Screen Mockup.
  • Working on Project B Design Doc.
  • Purchased Parallels Upgrade.
  • Watched Walking Dead - Final Episode before Season break.
  • Fixed Facebook password.
  • Posted some stuff on Facebook.
  • Worked on the editor for Project B.

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Software/Purchases

Purchased Parallels version 10 to speed up using Windows on the MAC.


Social Media

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