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Luis Zeno Jr
Picture This!
The last and current project I am involve in is call Picture This!, a game where players would assume the role of an invisible player in a fantasy land, completing missions assign by the NPC and taking photos of objects for the quest objectives. Here, I was given a couple of task center around the NPC interaction and system features of the game.
I started off with working on a dialogue system between the player and the NPC. I found a five part reference video that would allow the player to interact with each NPC character in the game and how different dialogue depending on the NPC character itself. Some of the success center around the dialouge working for the most part on several characters have a variety of interaction with the player, allowing the ability to name each character of each character, and give character portraits to each NPC characters.
I shifted my work to the option features of the project, preferably the audio and the graphics of the game. I was given the task by the project lead to be able to handle the feature which took me a few weeks to get the feature to work and to implement it in the project. It was something new to me as I never consider the options feature in any of the previous projects I was involved in, either for education, game jam, or personal.
The final task was working on the music player. I mostly added in a large list of music from 5 folders containing about as much as 15 music in each of the folders. When I first implemented the music, the title, artist, and album, I placed them in the wrong location of the playlist. I done a research on how to create a playlist properly, similar to what was hear on games like Fortnite. After troubleshooting the error, I have manage to find the proper location on putting in the correct music which players can listen to or skip to a new song.
After putting in all the songs, I worked on adding in a special random feature that would allow different music to be played each time the player skips the song. Instead of going from one song to the next in an album, the songs will shuffle through a list of songs from different albums, allowing for a variety of songs to be heard through the game.
As of this moment, I am currently still a part of this project and three important task I have are the following: One, I am working on objective completion between the player and NPC. I am focusing on working on the NPC objective task and dialogue, allowing the player to accept or decline any quest the NPC has for them, and have a quest and have a visual aid if the quest is in progress or is complete. The second is to have the player interaction with objects to complete the NPC quest objectives, with the player either using the interaction on the object or take a photo of the quest requirement to complete it. And third, fix the playlist to have a music follow up after the current music end instead of playing the current music in a loop.
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