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Week-1 The beggining


The first class of this week was mostly us making up a game concept which ended up being a “lumberjack simulator”, our selling point is going to be the chicken in the game which you can kill and get a KFC bucket. we also plan on having the chickens flock to meet out learning outcomes which include flocking and a strategic AI which by my understanding is a AI which takes into account how strong the heard is before making the decision to attack.

There were also some decisions taken to set up bit bucket for version control and to use the latest version of unity so that there would be no issues for version control during this project like we have faced in previous trimesters. Also we set up a group chat for communication and trello to keep track of our weekly tasks.

Although we did come up with a solid concept it needs to be further refined in order to take into account that we don’t have any animators or audio students helping us for this project & we will have to ask the higher trimester students for help if we are too having any good assets for the project. As collaboration is a learning outcome, I am unsure how we can complete this for the semester but I do have 12 weeks to do it.

Our second class consisted of some content where in we had a recap on the studio one topics such as the UML diagrams along with what some of the arrows mean in the UML diagrams. We also had a brief overview of design patterns and how they can be used to wrote “Cleaner code” and how they can be used as solutions to some common problems in object oriented programming.

The third class consisted more of design patterns and some of them were explained by myself and my peers to get a better idea of where and when to use specific design patterns, I myself explained the observer pattern but the explanation was very poor in my opinion as there was much more which could be elaborated on.


After the third class we decided to refine our idea so that it could be pitched in week 2, the progress was not as much as I could have hoped but it was not very bad either.  After the class we found out that we can’t use 3rd party plugins from the asset as we were planning to have a night and day cycle but after some research I found that a simple night or day cycle can be easily done within a week by my estimates and can be modified to be a re-usable tool for my projects later in the future.

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