Newsletter 14 : Week 14

Date : 4/29/2015

“Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning”

-Winston Churchill

This week the team geared towards preparing for softs opening which is on Tuesday, April 21, 2015. A completely new environment, new game map, a updated tutorial mode and also, all the animations were added in the game. We conducted a playtest on the 17th and the 18th April, 2015.

Newsletter 13 : Week 13

Date : 17th April,2015

“Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be”

-Khalil Gibran

This week the team geared towards preparing for softs which is on Tuesday 21st April, 2015. Which means that there was a lot of improvement in the build then what it was there before. The team also conducted two playtests to see if the game was easy to understand and play.

Newsletter 12: Week 12

Date : 10th April, 2015

The team spent most of their time, getting the balance right in the game. By tweaking different set of parameters in the game such as the cool down time between sending the minions, time in which the minion generates back, amount of time for the blocks to glow to break the bridge.

Newsletter 11 : Week 11

Date : 3rd April, 2015

“Feedback is the breakfast of champions”-Ken Blanchard

Feedback to whatever we do is really important at this stage. So, team Illusions have internal play test every week and play test with its peers every week and a half to make sure we are heading in the right direction.

Newsletter 9: Week 9

Date : 20th February,2015

The team was out for a long 2 weeks: 1 week for Game Developers Conference and 2 week for Spring Break. So, there was not much significant progress in those weeks. But, we are back to get things started and work our way towards the softs and finals.

Newsletter 4: Week 4

Date : 6th February, 2015

This week was pretty interesting was Team Illusions. They had both ups and downs. The team went a little slow in its overall game design process and deciding upon a particular. But, then it picked itself up and starting working for the quarters next week.