Gorilla Run

Devlog

• Week 16 Devlog
  January 11, 2023 by Darragh Lynch

  Prepping for the final build of the game, recording the video and final bug checking... Continue reading
• Week 15 Devlog
  January 11, 2023 by Darragh Lynch

  This week not much happened, I edited the level a little bit as some bugs were discovered with the player's hands getting stuck in the floor in level 2, this should hopefully be fixed now... Continue reading
• Week 14 Devlog
  January 11, 2023 by Darragh Lynch

  No devlog this week as it is Christmas week!... Continue reading
• Week 13 Devlog
  January 11, 2023 by Darragh Lynch

  Week 13 was the week of the Beta playtest, This week we had two levels for our selected testers to go through. The feedback we received this time was an improvement and very helpful over the previous... Continue reading
• Week 9 Devlog
  January 11, 2023 by genericvillager.exe

  This week we started to finalize questions for our survey for the game to get as much accurate feedback as we can, and work on general fixes for our game that we found in testing. We will use the feed... Continue reading
• Week 12 Devlog
  January 11, 2023 by Darragh Lynch

  Week 12 was the week I (Darragh) tackled the playtest feedback presented to us. I improved the level design to provide clarity to the player as to what direction they would be going in, I also edited... Continue reading
• Week 8 Devlog
  January 11, 2023 by genericvillager.exe

  I (seán) continued to make the score board but found the more time I put into it that I didn't really feel that it made sense to have it in the vr game that we were making and that Gorilla run could... Continue reading
• Week 7 Devlog
  January 11, 2023 by genericvillager.exe

  Darragh added main area with a quit game function and a level select. I (seán) started work on a score board and timer so that each person can get their fastest time on the board and create a competi... Continue reading
• Week 6 Devlog
  January 11, 2023 by genericvillager.exe

  This week we started to finalize the first level and got people to try out the game. Seeing how they reacted to the movement and how they liked moving through the level and if they had any feed back o... Continue reading
• Week 5 Devlog
  January 11, 2023 by genericvillager.exe

  This week we looked at any issues that arose with how the level was designed and we also started to look at how we wanted our game to look. We then thought about what do we want people to see in the g... Continue reading
• Week 11 Devlog
  January 11, 2023 by Darragh Lynch#Alpha, #Playtest

  This week, the Alpha playtest took place during class time, we had the first years come in to test our game in a 5-minute rotation. We, unfortunately, had a technical issue at the beginning of the pla... Continue reading
• Week 4 Devlog
  January 11, 2023 by genericvillager.exe

  This week we looked at the previous prompts and thought about what did we want our game to be and I (Seán) looked at Darragh's week 3 game for the nature prompt and we both agreed that we liked how t... Continue reading
• Week 10 Devlog
  January 11, 2023 by Darragh Lynch#Playtest, #Alpha

  This week I prepared for the playtest that is going to happen during class time. I prepared an alpha build of the game to be playtested by the first years. Last week we submitted personalised playtest... Continue reading
• Week 3 Devlog
  January 11, 2023 by genericvillager.exe

  For this week's brief we were told to introduce nature into the games we were creating. I (Seán) looked at this week's prompt and thought about nature. For me it was the serenity you can feel by bein... Continue reading
• Week 2 Devlog
  January 11, 2023 by genericvillager.exe

  For this week the brief we were given to introduce some form of corrupted vision into our games. The way I (Seán) went about it was to look at the literal sense of corrupted vision and think about ho... Continue reading
• Week 1 Devlog
  September 27, 2022 by Darragh Lynch

  My name is Darragh Lynch, I have been learning about game design for 4 years now. During our brainstorming sessions, we went through a multitude of ideas, such as an FPS, a platformer and a fighting g... Continue reading