Week Eight 3RD CLOUD Project Update

Much has happened over the past week.

Game Menus:

I have finished drafting up possible design options for the menus of 3rd CLOUD. I was thinking that as the player advances through the game, the menu look and feel should change. Here are the three design descriptions that I have come up with:

1st Cloud: The menu should look and feel light and happy. The farmers boy is going on a new and different experience and the menu should help support this. Because of this, the menu will look like rolling green empty hills. In the menu itself, a branch with leaves and berries are there to represent the growth of the character.

2nd Cloud: This menu should represent business as this is what the second cloud represents. The menus I believe should reflect the profession that the player picked. With this, I imagine the menus to be rolling blue hills with some development on them. Also, the branch with berries if replaced by symbols that represent the players profession (ie: swords and shields for the fighter).

3rd Cloud: The menu for the 3rd cloud is meant to represent the state of the cloud itself, which is full of death, decay and possibly demons. Because of this, The rolling hills will now be black with tombstones on them. The symbols of the characters profession will be replaced with a tombstone and a skull.

As far as navigation, I like how RPG Maker utilizes it's menus. Given that we have four weeks left for our project, I believe that the default menu navigation is fine.

Cloud Mapping:

I have created a basic map of all three clouds. They are still in a rough format and needs to be approved by the team. In our next meeting I am hoping to finalize the map of the first cloud.

Project Management:

Drew has requested that I become the project manager of 3rd CLOUD. He is a much better programmer than I and I am more proficient at documentation and thus our roles have been switched.

Weekly Meeting Time:

Tuesdays meetings will go from 2:00 PM until 3:00 PM. Last week we met in the games room of the Library.

Next Weeks Objectives:

For next week, I am hoping to have the map of the first, second, and third cloud finished. I also hope to have the menus finalized. I also hope to have the story for the first cloud to be completely finished.