Noah's Nightmare

Devlog

• Week #13 - Henrique
  June 05, 2021 by HenriqueMetas

  And so we reach the end. This week, we finally presented our (semi) final product. It was a joy to present our game at MOJO and I'm very proud of the result we were able to show. Of course now there w... Continue reading
• Week #13 - Lídia
  June 04, 2021 by LidiaGC

  Well, here comes the last devlog! On the past weekend we finished polishing up our game and on Monday we presented the final game at MOJO. It was really cool finally showing what we have been working... Continue reading
• Week #13 - Daniel
  June 04, 2021 by dserafim1999

  Hey everyone! As the semester comes to a close, so will our weekly devlogs! This week we finished the game! You can now try it out for yourselves and see why we are so proud of what we achieved! We st... Continue reading
• Week #13 - Ana
  June 04, 2021 by anocas-22

  This week we polished our game, released it on this page and prepared for MOJO. We were worried about the bugs we could have when delivering the game but it went great. Though some bugs still exist an... Continue reading
• Week #12 - Henrique
  May 28, 2021 by HenriqueMetas

  This was a very full week of development. Seeing as every mechanic/boss/enemy was done. It was finally time to start building the levels. So with the help of my teammates, we did all of the levels, I... Continue reading
• Week #12 - Lídia
  May 28, 2021 by LidiaGC

  We're in the final phase of our game! Everything we did so far revolved more around the various mechanics we would integrate in the levels. This week, we took everything we did and integrated in the 9... Continue reading
• Week #12 - Daniel
  May 28, 2021 by dserafim1999

  Hey everyone! What a busy week! This week was all about creating all of the 9 levels our game will have. We divided them amongst ourselves to speed up progress, as we also had other things to attend t... Continue reading
• Week #12 - Ana
  May 28, 2021 by anocas-22

  This week we are finally finishing our game! As I said in the last Devlog I developed the flower mechanic on friday. However the writers changed the story in the sense that the flower would not be a p... Continue reading
• Week #11 - Henrique
  May 21, 2021 by HenriqueMetas

  This was a week full of work. This week I was assigned the boss programming. This was a very challenging task since their logic is much more advanced than those of normal enemies, with mutliple attack... Continue reading
• Week #11 - Lídia
  May 21, 2021 by LidiaGC

  This week I worked on another mechanic: Slippery Ground. This is a mechanic that is planned to be introduced in the Depression levels. Like the name says, this is a ground that will feel slippery when... Continue reading

  
• Week #11 - Ana
  May 21, 2021 by anocas-22

  This week I was assigned destructible platforms. This is a mechanic we already developed in the last prototype so it was easy to implement. I couldn't find an animation where it looks like the platfor... Continue reading

  
• Week #11 - Daniel
  May 21, 2021 by dserafim1999

  Hey everyone! As our deadline approaches, more weekly progress is to be expected! This week, my focus was on finishing up the menus and integrating all of the progression of our game with the save sys... Continue reading

  
• Week #10 - Henrique
  May 14, 2021 by HenriqueMetas

  Another week of work on my part of the game. This week I wanted to finish all of the enemies that will be in the game. As such, I took the bases I did last week and programmed the other mechanics for... Continue reading
• Week #10 - Lídia
  May 14, 2021 by LidiaGC

  This past week I worked on a new mechanic that was assigned to me which is portals. It was one of the ideas from the workshop that we really liked and were eager to implement. These portals are part o... Continue reading

  
• Week #10 - Daniel
  May 14, 2021 by dserafim1999

  Hey everyone! This week, my attention was set on the "backend" of our game, focusing mainly on creating an abstraction for levels and collectibles to make the game work as a cohesive experience, and n... Continue reading

  
• Week #10 - Ana
  May 14, 2021 by anocas-22

  This week we continued our development of the game. Each member was assigned a task. I had to develop the activatable switches. This includes buttons that can be pressed by objects such as boxes to op... Continue reading

  
• Week #9 - Henrique
  May 07, 2021 by HenriqueMetas

  This week we continued development of our game. As well has getting some feedback from our focus group on our prototype. First, I'll talk about the prototype. As I said last week, I designed the enemi... Continue reading

  
• Week #9 - Lídia
  May 07, 2021 by LidiaGC

  This week we finished the control and presentation prototype and shared it with the people on the focus group. The prototype allowed for different types of keyboard input so we asked them to fill up a... Continue reading

  
• Week #9 - Ana
  May 07, 2021 by anocas-22

  This week we finished our control and presentation prototype and tested it with our focus group and other people to see what they thought of the different control schemes as well the UI and level mech... Continue reading

  
• Week #9 - Daniel
  May 07, 2021 by dserafim1999

  Hey everyone! This week we shared our control and presentation prototype with our focus group and other select few in order to gather feedback regarding possible control schemes and UI. We concluded t... Continue reading

  
• Week #8 - Lídia
  April 30, 2021 by LidiaGC

  At the beginning of the week, we had a meeting with our artist and writers where we discussed the results of the workshop regarding the several worlds, enemies, bosses and level mechanics that we woul... Continue reading
• Week #8 - Henrique
  April 30, 2021 by HenriqueMetas

  This was oficially the 1st development week. At the end of last week, we came up with the idea for what was important for our prototype to present next week, and among other things, "basic enemy" was... Continue reading

  
• Week #8 - Ana
  April 30, 2021 by anocas-22

  This week we reunited with the writers and the artist to decide how the story was going to be developed and how the art would convey that. Considering the feedback we got from the workshop we divided... Continue reading
• Week #8 - Daniel
  April 30, 2021 by dserafim1999

  Hey everyone! Our week started with a meeting with the entire team, where we defined the key aspects of our game's progression. Namely, the overall narrative arch that will run through our game. I'm e... Continue reading

  
• Week #7 - Ana
  April 23, 2021 by anocas-22

  This week we did a Workshop with our focus group. We started with a brief and informal discussion about what they thought about the prototype developed in the last semester and then did the activities... Continue reading
• Week #7 - Henrique
  April 23, 2021 by HenriqueMetas

  A very exciting week! This week we did the workshop, and that was a very fun and gave us important insight into what our focus group thinks of the game as well as directing us to what we should focus... Continue reading
• Week #7 - Lídia
  April 23, 2021 by LidiaGC

  Last Sunday we had the workshop with our focus group through zoom. We discussed the feedback they had from the previous prototype, what worked and what didn't, and performed some activities to gather... Continue reading
• Week #7 - Daniel
  April 23, 2021 by dserafim1999

  Another week, another devlog! This week started with our Ideas Workshop! We gathered the 6 participants of our focus group together in an informal session, where we discussed the shortcomings of our o... Continue reading
• Week #6 - Henrique
  April 16, 2021 by HenriqueMetas

  This week we had to group up and creat a workshop with our focus group! We had some doubts about what we had to do exactly, but after talking with out professor we understood better what the objective... Continue reading
• Week #6 - Lídia
  April 16, 2021 by LidiaGC

  This week we start our 2nd development cycle. The first order of business is to prepare the workshop with the focus group. We talked with everyone in the group and set up a time for Sunday to start th... Continue reading
• Week #6 - Ana
  April 16, 2021 by anocas-22

  This week we prepared our Worshop with the focus group. After discussing the ideas we wanted to get feedback about we decided it would be best to do a Cart Sorting and a Zen Voting. In the card sortin... Continue reading
• Week #6 - Daniel
  April 16, 2021 by dserafim1999

  Hey everyone! This week, we started preparations for our Design Ideas Workshop. We had a meeting where we discussed what were the concepts we would like more feedback on, as well as discuss which acti... Continue reading
• Week #5 - Henrique
  April 09, 2021 by HenriqueMetas

  So, this week I took all the information I gathered from my low fidelity prototype tests last week, and wrote (with my colleagues) the feedback report to deliver at the middle of the week. This task w... Continue reading
• Week #5 - Ana
  April 09, 2021 by anocas-22

  This week we tested our prototypes with some players. They weren't part of our focus group since these prototypes were made of paper and the purpose of the prototype would be lost if an online testing... Continue reading
• Week #5 - Lídia
  April 09, 2021 by LidiaGC

  Last week was Easter break and we worked on our low fidelity prototypes. We tested them with users and recorded our interactions with the prototype. This week, we wrote the report with our user testin... Continue reading
• Week #5 - Daniel
  April 09, 2021 by dserafim1999

  Hey everyone! This week we finished our low fidelity user testing, and wrote a report that gathered all of our results. We submitted it to be reviewed by our teachers and intend to use the information... Continue reading
• Week #4 - Henrique
  April 03, 2021 by HenriqueMetas

  This week each member started doing and testing their low fidelity prototype. After a discussion, it was decided I would be testing enemy interaction with my prototype. I decided to do it out of paper... Continue reading
• Week #4 - Ana
  April 02, 2021 by anocas-22

  This week we gathered with the arts student, Andres, and the game writing students, Rubia and Ariana. It went very well, they seem to have liked the concept of our game and they look like hardworking... Continue reading
• Week #4 - Daniel
  April 02, 2021 by dserafim1999

  Hey everyone! This week was an interesting one. We started off by meeting with the full team: Andres, the artist, and Rubia and Ariana, our game writers! We discussed general aspects of our game and o... Continue reading
• Week #3 - Henrique
  March 26, 2021 by HenriqueMetas

  This week we finished the design document and delivered it, that took most of the work we did apart from some general discussion regarding the game. Now that this is done we can move on to the low fid... Continue reading
• Week #3 - Ana
  March 26, 2021 by anocas-22

  This week we finished our Design Document. After the teacher's feedback we improved our scenarios and added another persona. We also contacted people for our focus group that match the personas we cre... Continue reading
• Week #3 - Lídia
  March 26, 2021 by LidiaGC

  This past week we finished the Design Document taking into account the feedback we got back from teachers. We defined our personas and scenarios, and contacted people to be part of our focus group. We... Continue reading
• Week #3 - Daniel
  March 25, 2021 by dserafim1999

  Another week has passed. This week we finished our Design Document, after receiving feedback from our teacher. This document will serve as a base for development to come. We also got in touch with our... Continue reading
• Week #2 - Henrique
  March 19, 2021 by HenriqueMetas

  This week was discussion week! The group got together to throw ideas at the wall and see what would stick and not. After this good discussion, I believe we have a more clear focus going forward, and w... Continue reading
• Week #2 - Ana
  March 19, 2021 by anocas-22

  This week we had a reunion so we could discuss the several ideas each had about the game. These ideas were about important aspects of the game like the main story, the game's progression, the level me... Continue reading
• Week #2 - Lídia
  March 19, 2021 by LidiaGC

  This past week we focused on discussing specific features of the gameplay we wanted to keep as well as features that didn't make sense to include anymore. In the end, we defined a more cohesive struct... Continue reading
• Week #2 - Daniel
  March 19, 2021 by dserafim1999

  This week was focused on discussing ideas for our game, namely what features we are going to keep from our previous prototype, and what features we are going to introduce. We also discussed how progre... Continue reading
• Week #1 - Henrique
  March 12, 2021 by HenriqueMetas

  This week we did the pitch presentation for our game. For that we had to prepare our presentation and throw some ideas at each other to define what would be best to say at this early stage of developm... Continue reading
• Week #1 - Lídia
  March 12, 2021 by LidiaGC

  My colleagues started developing this game in the previous semester so I'm the new member of the group. This week I got more acquainted with the prototype they developed as well as scratched ideas and... Continue reading
• Week #1 - Daniel
  March 11, 2021 by dserafim1999

  Development has officially begun! This week, we submitted a pitch for our game to our teacher's, where we explained our goals for the game. Most importantly, how we intend to remake our original proto... Continue reading
• Week #1 - Ana
  March 11, 2021 by anocas-22

  This week we presented our game concept pitch after deciding we would continue the development of the game we already developed last semester. Since we are building it from the ground up we have to th... Continue reading
• Hello World!
  March 11, 2021 by dserafim1999

  Hey Everyone! We are a group of Game Development Methodology students from Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa. This semester we will be developing a 2D pixel art platformer game called Noah’s Night... Continue reading