Creating houses!!

In today's lesson i started on creation of houses for my game, I m really close to finishing this one, it just needs some texture to be put onto it. So far the creation of it has taken me about 3:30h and i still have a bit to go. Below is a video which i am using to create this house. I am currently 2/3 through the video so i would say that about 1 more hour of work and the house will be complete.










https://youtu.be/TMnfeV2KRGU?t=1706

Week by week timeline for my game project.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1d3AhNx-Yq0rgRu7MZ3sy940wJelyVOfmaEahjIjbKwk/edit#gid=1816343427

the document goes a little bit weird as all the days are shown as '#NAME?' id be better off printing it out from my memory stick if possible!

What will motivate the player in my game?
Starting from the bottom all the way through the top to become the best there ever was and have tons of fun and also maintaining a great experience playing the game

What will be the challenges the player will undertake while playing my game?
Different race types, different cars, starting small with a low end car to progressing and upgrading to high end cars, time trials, laps, sprints, escaping the cops, racing other players (bots) during free roam.

What will be the rewards in my game?
The rewards in my game will be as following: cash rewards, chance to win the bosses car which will have custom parts which cannot be bought in the shop. Only obtainable through winning it.

Player Profile

Sources;

(so you're able to access them) 

http://www.bigfishgames.com/blog/2013-gamers-survey-results-demographics-platforms-and-smartphone-use/

http://www.theesa.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/ESA-Essential-Facts-2015.pdf

http://essentialfacts.theesa.com/Essential-Facts-2016.pdf

Controls for my game

So i decided to get rid of the grid system as i realized it will be a failure, instead i decided to use the spline tool to create my roads, its way faster and easier to do it that way. I've put my texture onto the road mesh which was already within the engine and used it for the spline tool, I am really happy with the outcome just need to fix a couple of things, also 3ds max on my computer is broken and whenever i access it it just kicks me out. 

Prototyping my website.

In todays lesson i was asked to pick a website template of my own choice. I went with a parallax effect. I changed the background image to the one taken from the game I'm creating and I also wrote something about my game, not too much as it was mostly about changing the visual effects of the website. Furthermore i have changed some of the colors on the website.
Below you will be able to see how the original one looked like.

Presenation:

here is a sketch i did however i felt like this was pointless and i anotated a parallax effect in powerpoint as you can see above

http://www.awwwards.com/20-best-web-fonts-from-google-web-fonts-and-font-face.html

Minumum system requirements

What are the advantages of producing a game for high specs PC?

• You will be able to make your game with really fancy graphics and other features that an old PC wont be able to run.
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What are the disadvantages of producing a game for high specs PC?

• You might not get a higher player base to try out/play your game as not everybody can afford a high end/gaming PC.

Advantages of UE4

Nice Graphics Quality, you can make games for multiple platforms.

User-Friendly Interface, very easy to learn for beginners.

Disadvantages of UE4

• Performance can be rather unstable at times.

Inspirations for my website

Todays lesson wants me to search for web animation and get inspired by it to create my own website .



The GIF you can see to the left is basically a transition from this website i found. I really liked it and felt like its just so smooth and fast. this is the website http://www.species-in-pieces.com/# , the website was made by 'Bryan James' (his twitter https://twitter.com/WengersToyBus )
The animations were made in CSS below will be a picture of what Bryan wrote about making the web animation.

Another 'animation' i found was on the angry birds website. They have recently released a new version/edition of their game. The thing you can see above this writing is basically a short game play video thats on loop and will play forever or until you leave the site. They have included a different variety of clips from different levels which makes the video not look as if its looping.

I believe that the website as a whole was made with CSS. There actually isn't any animation on the website apart from video playing in the background at a certain part. The website and animation/game as a whole was mady by 'Ravio' Link to the website: https://www.angrybirds.com/games/angry-birds-space/?ref=space.angrybirds.com 

I really loved this 'scroller' parallax effect animation i found on the internet. I feel like it would be the perfect animation to use for my website. The animation just felt so smooth while i was scrolling through it it was in Brazilian so i wasn't really able to understand what it read but it was really impressing. I think that this animation/website was made using CSS, it was created by a company/organisation named 'CCR'. Link to the website: http://www.grupoccr.com.br/10anosipo/ . Honestly I would really consider using something similar for my website.

Once again i have found a 'parallax effect scroller' as i believe this is what i want my website to be. This scroller is a timeline map through the whole of California coast, I found this website really infomational and enjoyable not only because i liked the parallax effect but also because it had loads of information within it aswell, i wont talk about it too much as this isnt the point of this exercise. The link to the website is the following; http://www.exsus.com/highway-one-roadtrip . It was made in CSS by the travel company named 'EXSUS'