So, new week and new Monday, which brings with it another meeting! This time around we've talked a lot about the near future, basically where we're heading from here and what's the most important on our to-do lists.
For Teddy and Fred, this mainly means the Luke battle and the cutscenes directly after and a final one leading up to where Frontline will end this time.
For me, there's a lot more improvements to the earlier stages of the game, particularly around Evergrind City and the like.
And for all of us, it's still the quest for the perfect final dungeon. We've already had a bunch of meetings discussion a variety of ideas, but seeing as we want a lot of floors, there's still some work to be done and more floor ideas to shape - and eventually, actual floors to design. This week our homework is the sit down for 20 minutes to an hour here and there and create those ideas, so that next week we have even more of them to discuss. This will continue on while we finish up the rest of the ship until we have enough ideas, and eventually, proper designs, that we can make a whitebox sketch version of the final dungeon which we can run through and try out without the mechanics being implemented yet.
The main thing we want to avoid is one of the pitfalls that made work on the Ghost Ship such a struggle; in every other previous case where we designed an area or a dungeon, we had a clear design in mind before we actually started making the proper graphics. With the Ghost Ship, we did a whole ton of just winging it and designing as we went on, and it's fair to say that designing a dungeon like that didn't work out as well for us as the other way at all. So - no more of that, and more pre-design like we did before! With some luck, we won't struggle as much this time, and it won't be as long before an update hits ever again (touch wood) :)
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