The Incredible Journey Continues: An Animate Arts Project Midterm Presentation By Reid Delfeld

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The Incredible Journey Continues An Animate
Arts Project Midterm Presentation By Reid
Delfeld
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The Original Goals/Concept

• Portray the dynamics of playing an instrument in
  a video game
• Illustrate the tactile aspects of music, along
  with auditory and visual aspects
• Develop an innovative input system, portraying
  the analogue nature of music
• Create a unique feedback system combining
  tactile, visual, and audio signals

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How Goal Have Changed

• Less focus on matching touch and feel of playing
  and instrument
• New focus on manipulating preexisting audio clips
• New goal to make visuals reinforce the audio
  cues.
• Introduce multiplayer?

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What went right

• Learned XNA well
• Analogue controller input is effective
• Turn based Simon gameplay is fun
• Visuals and audio are weird in a good way

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What went wrong

• Problems with uncompressed .wav files
• Game portability issues

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Regrets

• Look at other types of programming software for
  project before choosing XNA (due to portability
  problems)
• Playtest more often

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Advice to other students

• Playtest project a lot, with diverse audience
• Look at a variety of platforms before settling on
  one
• Be flexible about the project idea

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Current Status

• Simple, mostly place holder graphics
• Core Simon-like gameplay in place
• Basic audio and visual cues in place

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Next Quarter's Plan

• Give player more control in manipulating music
• Add instructions screen
• Tweak the input cue sequence to be clearer
• Focus on visuals
• Cleaner, more professional look
• Integrate visual and audio cues
• Make visual cues more intuitive
• Playtest at every opportunity