With this week I started off with a team meeting over discord to discuss what we have been up to and how everyone is getting on with their targets and how the lock down has affected us as a team. From the meeting everyone in the group have been getting on with the work expect for a couple due to understandable situations which I have discussed in the last Reflection. As most of our team have a lot to worry about with this whole situation of lock down with many going home, others working and etc. This is understandable due to this situation which we have talked about and have decided as a group to take a more relaxed approached with the work by having the Easter Holidays off. So we don’t end up stressing ourselves out and each other which is the last thing we need with whats going on in the world. But also it allows us to take a step back and work out a new work flow due to everyone working from home. This is going to be challenge but I do think as a team we can carry on with the game but downgrade it a bit. As with this situation its going to happen if we want the game to get to a playable stage. Which is a shame as we are all on board with the game with the amount of ideas we have come up with the game and also its quality. As we have come up with so many good ideas that we were going to add to the game. But its something we need to do as we need adjust to our situation and see if everyone is capable to carry on with the work.
For me I tried to carry on working in my own time but keeping my group up to date on what I am doing. This is a rule we have come up with which I have discussed earlier in the journal. So with that for the rest of the week I went over my assets I made to see if I could improve upon or make different variants and finishing them off. As its the perfect time to go over all my assets and reflect on them to see if they could be improved. As some of them look really basic and could do with a polish even though they are meant to be low poly. With this I improved a couple of the assets such as the log and one of the buildings. Which for them I added more details to the log and a couple of the buildings as they looked rather plain. So to improve this I added more details to them so for the log I added more curvature to make it look natural and added some mushrooms to give it an over grown look. With the buildings I added ledges and balcony to break up the structure of the building as it look rather flat and plain. For these I used reference images for the log and the houses/ building. With the buildings I used reference photos of buildings from Lisbon which is where we a basing our game which we have embedded into our work. With these adjustments they have turned out rather well but I feel like I could play around with the design.
Overall this week has been some what productive but I feel like I could have been more productive as half way through the week I decided to take a break as I am getting stressed out with the change in the way we work and the revised submission as I am unsure of how I should I do some of the tasks. But hopefully after the Easter Holidays this should be addressed. Also another reason for why I am disappointed in my productivity is that at the beginning of the unit I started off strong producing a good amount of block out assets and began polishing some of them. But now I feel like I have lost my motivation with the unforeseen circumstances of the Covid 19 pandemic which we are all in the same boat as we are unsure of whats going to happen with the world and how this unit is going to change/affect us. Hopefully with this break it will allow us to relax and calm ourselves down so when we come back to it we will have a fresh mind set on the game and unit.
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