Practice Level: Created using Mighty Fingers with assets sourced from opengameart.org

Using Mighty Fingers as an alternative to the Unreal engine for creating my 2d side-scrolling platformer, I created a practice level that I will use to base my final game from. In this test, i will be using assets not created by myself, I will upload those later while tuning the final game.
All artwork used in this test level is sourced from http://opengameart.org/.

To begin with, the program was a little bit unstable. However, I found implementing the visual assets was very easy utilizing a grid snap feature.

Assets

LO 1: Flowchart

Progress Review

What have I produced so far?

• Sound Effects
• Main Character animation model
• Basic Level Design
• Enemy Character Asset

What is left to do?

• Art for Pickups and Interactive assets (Door/Link Grasp)
• Character design and animation for NPC/Enemy
• Rest of level design

What is working well?

• Sound Effects
• Working on the level design and using Unreal

What is Difficult?

• Animating each individual frame for each character is time consuming
• Programming elements can be tough

Interim plan

1. 16.01.15 - Finish designs on all assets
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SteamGoon Audio

5 sounds that I will put into the game will be:

• Walking and Running on concrete
• Walking and running on metal
• Machine sounds for enemy
• Pickup sound
• Chain Reeling in

I will be sourcing these from my own recordings and from the website FreeSFX

Pickup Sound Editing

Using this original sound (upper) by Mitch recorded in a Sound Booth using a TASCAM DR-07 Recorder, I was able to remove the distortion and interference and merge the two sounds together to create a fledged pickup sound.

Using MAYA for 3D Asset Production

Evaluation

I found this software very easy and quick to learn and develop 3D models; for an introduction I created a 3D crate, texturing it with the same face graphic per side.

Unreal Engine 4