A Wizard's Wool
postmortum
a game that never was
Caveats
Who's in the room?
DEC 2021
PITCH
2 pitch deck ideas over christmas
CONTRACTS
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Share holders / Directors
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publisher
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freelancers
Asset Audit
Tools:
- Miro / google docs - design docs
- Google Slides - Pitch deck
- Whiteboards / pen & paper / postits - team design meetings
- Clickup (Notion competitor) - wiki, links, docs, notes
- Git (Azure) - code repo (we tried Plastic)
- Unity (obvs)
- Google sheets - financial forcasting
- Freeagent - accounting
Tech Pillars:
- Modular
- Composable
- Scenes are clean slates / can be individually tested
- Design tools at runtime
- Onboarding - style guide / access to git, docs, guides, resources...
Tech Pillars:
Open project - bit.ly/unity-open-project
HDRP vs URP
or up front tech debt
Asset store & plugins
plugins audit
Asset store & plugins
- cinemamachine - virtual camera / camera shake
- Unity's new input system
- Unity localisation system
- Unity audio
- ProBuilder
- Easy save
- DOTtween
- MM tools Feel
- Beautify - render postprocessing
- NodeCanvas - Ai (not sure if we use much now)
- hair plugins...
Bug / bad decisions
Unity Crashing log
runtime Scriptable objects
double spend physics
Game Systems
- scene loading / unloading
- subtitles / location / audio / VO
- narrative / quests / dialogue
- currency / upgrades
- coach co-op / spawner
- triggers - audio / camera shake / camera change
- post processing volumes
- in game comments
- AI characters
tid bits
- lights need baking for additive scenes
- gravity -9.81 -> -7 more floaty
- porting -> investigation and getting consoles
- object persistence??
- Build machines
Audio
- dont use mp3's as they dont loop
- surround sound
- Vorbis for music and longer sounds, to cut down on file size.
However it takes processing to decompress the files on the fly, so PCM and ADPCM are used for the shorter frequently repeated sound effects.
PCM is obviously lossless since it's just a wav, but ends up with the biggest file sizes. ADPCM compresses wavs up to 3.5 times, but does have some impact on tonal quality, so it's used on noisey sounds with a wide spectrum
(footsteps, impacts etc)."
Playtesting / events
UKGF & VGTR
