FMP 21 - 29th August

Regarding the playable character, I have yet to produce something I am completely happy with, and if I am honest, I doubt I will in this time-frame - he's starting to look decent enough, but in the final stretch here, imagination and creativity fails me.

As it looks now, I'm eally glad I had a buffer period here at the end!

This week was for producing more graphical doodads like trees and textures to populate the areas with, and here are some screenshots of that:

 

 It's starting to look up I think (as well it should, there's a week till hand in)!

 Level design is never really done, you can always tweak and alter things to be a little better. I've been looking a lot at the earlier Paper Mario games to try to research how they made their scenes work, and how full of graphical objects they were.

I recently read an article on Gamasutra about level design and telling stories through the level, without dialogue or exposition, and while a demo like mine has next to no relevant story, I have added a single piece which I hope to enhance upon further in the future versions, and get a sense of mystery to this island.

Till next!

Source:

http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/DanTaylor/20130929/196791/Ten_Principles_of_Good_Level_Design_Part_1.php