Sunday 31st March 2024

Blog Entry 9

I have spent time working on the games environment and making it look nice. I have hated every minute of it.

I have found out that I hate artistic design and laying out where trees should be and all the other parts of making a game look pretty (except shaders they are cool). Every time I have opened the project since starting on the environment design I have hated it and just wanted to give up. This is really bad when the project is due so soon and I have to spend time making it look pretty.

I discussed my dislike of design with my supervisor this week and he gave me some very good advice. He told me it was clear he made a mistake telling me to make the game prettier given he knows my opinions on artistic design and he told me that instead I should convert my project into plugins. At first I was shocked that he wanted me to completely change my project so close to the deadline however now I realise that it is good advice. I prefer the technical/programming side of this project as evidenced by my choice to do pure C++ and converting my code to plugins while difficult and time consuming would allow me to use the skills I am good at.

I have committed the level design stuff I have done and now I will be working very hard to get the conversion to plugins done before the deadline.