Shawn Wang

reflection: STOP ADDING NEW FEATURES SHAWN. New ideas are exhausting, I should stay away from the designer’s side,no, seriously.

The poster is almost done and the game itself is,meh, missing a few details. I was thinking of adding skill trees… it would’ve been so funny

I had no idea why ending 002 is literally a dating sim from the 90s but here we are. I’ve spent stupidly amount of time in making this one single ending.

added notifications and wrapping up the new mode. I’ll finish everything asap as possible

I was trying to learn from the Stanley parable ultra deluxe trailor and I can not stop laughing while making my own lmaoooo

So I’ve implemented a small inventory system where you could inspect everything you’ve encountered with mail row ID. And I had to take screen shots of each of the item to make a thumbnail image and that’s just tedious

I took the inspiration from the UI from Mixtape. That’s a game made by twelve people. How is that possible. I be 11 and a half of them are artists or else it cannot be explained. Also, I wrote a plane worked as a widget, swaps materials as being hovered.

One of the reasons that made me love making games is that you can make the characters say whatever you want them to say, and they are absolutely helpless in that aspect. And I just can’t resist. Some of the jokes inside the game are worse than Matt rife.sooo

Anyways, as widget materials, they look bad. So I made materials with alpha masks(same as how I made the curtain flip book materials), so they are affected by lighting. That’s a bit tricky though, unlit/normal materials are bad for flip flopping.

I deleted every blueprint of the previous UI system, and I broke down so hard that I crumbled to find recovery hub. Ended up empty handed and had to redo most of the stuff while debugging it. I am not a programmer and never ever will be. Nah. Hand drawn some of the new buttons tho.

Baked the levels, mostly the lights. I tried static lighting and baking them but I can’t get rid of the “PREVIEW” text. Yuckkk so I gone full lumen and sacrificed a random TA to optimi god

sry that I logged so late but it’s been a stressful two weeks lolll. I finished two scripts and full sequencers, rigged every pose, wrote five systems and is currently making UIs. Man I feel like I’m taking way too many responsibilities and now I fully regret it

Reflection: honestly I think I could’ve planned it better. I’ve been doing UIs for the last four days and it’s still going nowhere. I finished set dressing in about two hours and the actual gameplay should’ve taken more time.

I wrote a material that can calculate X and y mult scale x and y and ox mult ky then append to one singular uv coordinate then I can finally do the cool fake 3d widgets. There must be some easier ways of doing this

Finished building my ugly corner!(The art assets by my team mate is awesome. What is ugly is my skill

First time doing UI. Finished most of them and found out most of them need debugging. I tried to get my camera pan but it just won’t do it. I had to make it move in relative distance and it looks so bad. No lol.

Using transparent background with stamp texture on the right place as master material, calls bUseStamp when stamped and shows the texture. Using tiny little cubes as parents and anchor for non-skeletal animation. I have programming. I can’t think now. My head hurts

used subsurface +thickness map as mask

Finished packing and checking everything. Who would’ve thought the packing process could be this painful that I had to debug at least four times to make it even working. The main menu is still bugging(the camera isn’t at the right place and angle, but if you access it from the pause menu it works)

Added audios and main menu! Made a tiny bit of menu animation, it’s only just the I set the player start and it spawns a spectator camera, which moves every frame.

Finished debugging. Took me a whole damn day to figure out why my work stations ain’t working. No pun intended. Turns out it was because I forgot to link them to the shredder, and they call separately.

prop concept designs

26/4/4 finished prototyping basic functions

*emissive