Tuesday, April 22, 2008

zoo racer critisism

zoo racer is a game where animals racer to get to noahs ark, not the most exciting prospect in the best of circumstances, yet all this becomes pointless to mention when you see the graphics and general style. the levels themselfs look like they have been put together from a childs drawings, the textures are completly the wrng sizes for what there on, for instance atree with a 512 texture then a wall 10 times the size with what looks like a 128 texture. theres no normal maps or speculars, and the only thing that looks like they pt any time into what the animation and stupidly unfitting music. if dancing unrealisticly animals is your thing and you like looking at 50 poly people, then go for it but other than that i think the makers would have got more credit if they did finger paintings.

Monday, April 21, 2008

conclusion, pig

well its at the end now, after lost of sleepless nights and days of none stop work weve done it, i finished all my assets and everythings been put together. in the end we got there, after spending 3 monthish doing this i feel i was put into the right group and im very pleased with all the work ive done, but thats not to say that it cant be better. i think the other group had alot more drama than ours, they had people not turning up, conflicts of intrests and people not working quite as well in a team as the other would have hoped.
well in the end top stuff and im well chuffed :D

how its goin ,pig

well half way through now, and its had its ups and downs people have argued and there have been some comminication issues but on the good side were doin great work. we finalized the main idea very early on and made a system to keep control of the assets. im very stressed at the moment as there are many assets to do. also i think i may be neglecting drawing but i think this is a problem everybody is having. nobody wants to let their team down and ive noticed people becoming very stressed and i feel there just not enough time to do everything and have a life, its like living sleeping and eating this project. in my first post i said about team spirit and my group has it in buckets, also people have always helped if ive asked. i think so far this project has made people view what were doing in a more proffesional manner which is great but i think people can be over critical.

team, first impressions

when i first found out which group i was in, i was pleased yet anxious, this is the first team project and i dont want to let people down. all the people in my group ive spoke to before and generally get on with them all quite well. i do however have some worries that some people may decide to try and take over the project, or force their ideas on people, but i'l see how things go.
Im really pleased to be doing a team project as i feel like im a team player, also when in a team you have other people to fall back on and team spirit to keep you going, i hope our group will be both of these.