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How To Merge & Insert Multiple Tracks Into One Observe In Audacity

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Asset Management: Together in the Dark (month 2) postmortems

Individual Postmortem by Stephen Rodrick

           My second month of work on Together in the Dark brought challenges, self-discovery and valuable experience to apply in the future.

           My main focuses were the pause menu, tutorials and sound design of the game. For the first two weeks, I ran into several roadblocks attempting to get the pause menu working for all players. Even though the inputs in Unity appeared to be correct, my C# script was not bringing up the pause menus for players 2, 3 or 4. I beat my head against this issue for several hours. Eventually, I realized that I had to consider the canvases and multiple displays we were using. I ended up polishing pause for player one and included a UI element that indicated to the other players if the game was paused.

           I discovered more about myself, especially how I operate under the extreme stress of crunch. Whether or not it is an intention of Asset Management class, our meticulously documented work schedule and the hours required created a high intensity environment for me. Each week seemed to be a sprint to the finish-line (Milestones 1-4). I know now that I can survive crunch and some cases thrive under the conditions. However, I do not know if I would be able to keep up the pace for multiple months in a row. Hopefully in the future I can help projects I work on avoid extended crunch periods. I will apply what I have learned about production pipelines and planning.

           Creating tutorial videos for players has been a worthy endeavor. In the past I have learned that some players prefer to learn about the game before they dive into gameplay. I kept that knowledge in mind as I designed and filmed the tutorials. I am proud of the tutorials that I created for Together in the Dark. If I make tutorials again, I think that they will be even better. I can improve upon my model from this project. The pause menu saga also is a beneficial notch on my belt. Every game needs a menu system and now I have some experience in creating assets in that domain.

           My time spent on Together in the Dark this month was a trial-by-fire. After self-reflection, I feel stronger as a game designer, developer and sound engineer.

Team Postmortem written by Blakeny Pittman, Chris Melton, Marc Schodorf, Mehmet Holbert, Riley Thompson, Robert Henk and Stephen Rodrick

Pros

The addition of Level 2 this month added variety to our game. This new level is larger than Level 1. The layout allows for more options for both the Hunter and the Survivors. Level 2, when playtested alongside Level 1, allowed for our team to start balancing the game. We figured out the ideal size and time restraints for an ideal gameplay. The larger, more elaborate design allows survivors more opportunities to hide in interesting places. Hunters also had more emergent gameplay strategies when tracking down survivors. For example, when a Survivor would place a trap in one of the courtyard doorways the second Hunter would go around and flank that Survivor.

Hunters chasing Survivors results in fun, frantic gameplay. The Survivor player experiences fear and suspense in attempting to evade the Hunter. The Hunter experiences a power trip where they want to chase down the Survivors. If they are able to catch a Survivor, there is a sense of exultation. The converted player may be frustrated at being caught, but they transition into the Hunter state-of-mind. Soon, they are experiencing similar moments. With the core gameplay aimed at a hide and seek style game, we believe that we nailed our goals for player engagement and mood.

The team maintained a clear direction of the intended goal (or end product) and was always willing to compromise. There are several instances where there were intended features to add into the game yet due to time restraints we had to focus on the vertical slice. For example, there were plans to allow the game to be played on a network. This was something we tried to tackle in the first month of development but was later pushed to this month. After about three more weeks of work on trying to incorporate networking, we realized that the vertical slice we did have working was just fine and we compromised as to settling with the working version of the split-screen. Another example is the pause functionality. Because we were going to have the game networked, we wanted every player to be able to pause the game. Due to the removal of networking and the challenges that pausing caused with the split screen setup, we stayed focused and only allowed for the player with the first controller to pause the game. We did add more PFI to the other players when the game was paused.

Cons

Due to our increase in resources, we decided to implement two new levels this month (level 2 and level 3). However, due to extenuating circumstances, one member who was solely responsible for creating level 3 was unable to complete the level. This has shown us to not put only one person in command of a task and to have a secondary (and possibly tertiary) resource dedicated to the task who can step up and take over if needed.

Allow ample amount of time and resources to implement networking. Especially if the project is continuing forward without a feature. The networking was a problem from the start, that once we got it to a point that we could actually implement it, it was already too late. The first problem was integrating our already tight knitted player controller into the network API. This caused an issue where the player couldn’t move when converting the player controller to one that handles UNET’s code. We then decided to find a plugin that could handle the network for us. We found that Photon 2 was the best option and proceeded to re-create the player controller to only use the plugins API. However, it was too late to fully implement it. Thus we decided to cut networking out completely.

Together in the Dark had many moving, complex pieces. Issues occurred when trying to get these items to work together. Networking between machines and swapping screens between machines took longer than expected and forced delays or certain items to be cut because of the complexity of the issues. Going in the team knew this was going to be a big risk and still decided to push forward on it. More steps should be taken if risks are going to be pushed forward so that if problems do arise they can be mitigated at best as possible. This will help the team be able to better manage tasks and hours and ensure that all milestones are completed on time.

Process

Throughout the two-month development cycle of Together in the Dark, we have dedicated over 250 man hours to networking. All of those hours are now unseen in the product. These hours could be spent on possibly implementing some of the other 100 features that we had brainstormed for this game. The good thing that came out of this was that there is a lot more knowledge on networking gained by two individuals on the team. However, this is information that not the whole team shared and can be considered wasted time.

In response to the networking features not being integrated into the game, we decided to implement a dual monitor, split screen system. This system allowed us to keep the needed suspense of not allowing the Hunters and Survivors to see the screen of their opponents. While the system did maintain this suspense, it was a very large and complex feature to tackle. Originally the system was set up with a default gameplay loop. Player one always starting out as the Hunter and the rest of the players starting out as Survivors. As we added rounds and player selection to the game, the dual monitor, split screen system had to adapt. The player who started out as the Hunter needed to be able to adjust in real time as scores and other UI elements updated values and positions on the screen. Making sure this system could handle a wide variety of setups became the major focus of this feature. Unfortunately, that focus did not leave much time for polish. The system as it is now can be jarring to the player when transitioning from Survivor to Hunter and when the split screen layouts adjust. The feature could use some fine-tuning and player feedback to get it to a point that is less intrusive to the players.

The team at the beginning of the month struggled with grasping the full concept of the amount of work that would need to be completed in the administration side of the project. Most of the focus from the team was spent on new additions to the game and not preparing all the essential paperwork that was required for the month. Focus was also not added to ensure that all tasks were completed when they were supposed to be and updated on the necessary paperwork. To rectify this the team decided to dedicate a meeting to getting all the paperwork up to where it needed to be and then during our normal monday meetings splitting the team into two for the purpose of having dedicated members ensure all paperwork was up to date before the turn-in the next day. This helped us get a better grasp of what all entails on the administration side of making a game, and that a proper task list can let us see what is supposed to be worked on and if personnel actually accomplished. This also allows us to see who of the team is taking on too many tasks so they can be watched to make sure they are not overworking themselves. The same can be said for those that are not performing up to their requirements they can be checked to find if they have to many tasks at hand or if the estimates are correct for the task they were asked to complete.

Final Analysis:

The team met multiple times a week both virtually and in person. Virtual meetings took place over Discord. The primary goal of these meetings was to give updates throughout the week on our assigned tasks. Our in-person meetups were held in Blackmoor Studios. These meetings focused on getting our administrative documents in order while also finalizing the milestone’s build.