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Week 19: Alice's Adventures Off The Map

alice in wonderland character character artist game art off the map UE4 Yep. You guessed it. It's that time of year again which can only mean one thing; DMU are entering the OTM competition for the third year running!

Tuesday meant judgment day, we all found out what the project was really about, previous entries and the people we were going to be working with for the next 12 weeks. Luckily, I'm in a fairly balanced team with some pretty awesome people, so...no complaints from me! The GA team set us the task of creating a 3D side scroller game, which by the sounds of the debate, a lot of people hated. Ah well, I guess you can't please everyone. However, this was later changed and we're free do do whatever we want! Awwwww yiss. Anyway, back to the brief. There's three topics to choose from - Oxford, underground & the gardens. Of course, they can all be incorporated together, but there has to be a 'main theme' of sorts. There's also no texture or tri budget so we're free to go as crazy as we like...providing it runs.

I really need to make smaller moodboards. Argh.

This week was just spent figuring out what it was we wanted to do, research and a shed load of Pinterest. We haven't yet decided on a style which isn't an issue yet, but after meeting with Chris and Steve on Friday, we were told that by the middle of next week (11th Feb - ish) that we needed to have this sorted. Help. Everything is so pretty.

Storyboard of our initial idea

Towards the end of the week, I also helped out with some engine work and managed to get a couple working. More on that on next weeks post...