Coco & Co constructive communication & collaboration

Dailies 11/6/2010

What I did:

• Cleaned up the split/unsplit camera behavior.
• Performance improvements for keyframed objects. (Like pistons.)
• The player can now see invisible pistons when dead. (Might be a bad idea, but we'll see.)

What I plan to do:

• A bunch of little fixes.
• Playtesting!

Dailies 11/5/2010

What I did:

• Multiple draw planes now work properly.
• Added a simple prototype that allows the player to control the voice tone of the character. It's kind of interesting but doesn't really work too well.
• Cleaned up scenes 4 and 5.
• Implemented basic system for emotional states, including texture swapping on the head, emotional postures, and voice changes.

What I plan to do:

• A bunch of cleanup and refinement items.

Dailies 11/4/2010

What I did:

• Rewrote color signifier system so that it handles glows automatically.
• Cleaned up scenes 1, 2, and 3.

What I plan to do:

• Clean up remaining scenes.

Dailies 11/3/2010

What I did:

• Big meeting to discuss progress until softs.
• Fixed call sounds over network.
• Added head tilt control.
• Added call sounds for arms out and head down.
• Added surfaces that can be drawn upon by the players.
• Started doing some scene cleanup.

What I plan to do:

• More cleanup.

Dailies 11/2/2010

What I did:

• Break.

Dailies 1/1/2010

What I did today and over the weekend:

• Added invisibility overlays to cameras and effects to podiums.
• Lots of playtesting at TigJam.
• IGF submission & prepwork including video, instructions, and description.

What I plan to do:

• Take a break.
• Lots of fixes and polish.

Dailies 10/29/2010

What I did:

• TigJam!
• Added PuppetAction to force the character to point or look at a location.
• Added fog planes. (Scrolling fog.)
• Modified visibility so that you can't see any invisible platforms until you stand on a podium.
• Fixed a few bugs.

What I plan to do:

• Invisibility/podium effects.

Dailies 10/28/2010

What I did:

• Camera views can now be angled.
• Updated all the platform prefabs with new models and colliders.
• Fixed the linked falling platforms in 4.1.
• Can now adjust pull/push speed of boxes for each particular box.
• Can now cheat through gesture tutorial. (Just press the C key a bunch.)
• Added support for random sound effects.
• Added very basic magic mirrors to 1.1.
• Added gradient terrain prefabs.
• Fixed bug where player can still yell while dead.
• Cleaned up a bunch of scenes, including reconnecting objects to their prefabs.
• Added sound effects to doors.

What I plan to do:

• Redo the whole visibility and podium system.
• Other less important tasks, time permitting.

Dailies 10/27/2010

What I did:

• Invisible platforms are now faded when no one is standing on them.
• Platforms now use box instead of mesh colliders, in prep for switching the model to something more box-like.
• Added very basic context-sensitive call sounds to characters.
• Big long meeting to discuss what needs to be done for IGF and at TIGJam.

What I plan to do:

• Change invisibility behavior to work with new platform concept.
• Random sound effects.
• Other misc tweaks and fixes.

Dailies 10/25/2010

What I did:

• Fixed a bug with networked actions.
• A bunch of big optimizations.
• Played with cool lighting and shadow effects.
• Switched to use our own master server and NAT facilitator.
• Mouse cursor is now faded when moving or puppetering.

What I plan to do:

• Make invisible platforms faded when no one is standing on them.
• Add context-sensitive call voices.