16/01/2026 - Final Blog post for this assignment

SITUATION: We need to polish the game and add details to the levels

TASK: my tasks were to help tom polish the game and fix any bugs as well as adding text to the reels for the purpose of the story

ACTION: I fixed a bug where the player would spawn in the air when going down or up the stairs. this was due to the stairs origin being accidently moved somewhere in the middle. to fix this I simply reduced the Z axis movement of the player in both cases.

The reels would not display text properly. It turned out that we forgot to set Multiline to True.

We needed a newspaper at the Beginning and the end of the game to introduce the player and describe what happens after the player escapes the mansion. Thus I made a Newspaper template using canvas

RESULT:

Changed the Z axis from 500 to 250 for Up and from 0 to -250 for down

For the Story text we enabled Multi line

The newspapers I made using canva:

The code that displays it at the beginning:

and end:

Final Reflection

I think the hardest challenge was delagating people to certain tasks as some of our skills overlapped which caused a bit of tension on who should do what for the sound design it was easy as only one of us had experience but the ones working on the game had overlap in the fact that we ended up coding multiple of the same system in different ways for the different aspects of the game such as the stairs and the door being similar but then the Reels use a global interaction system which could have been used to simplify and optimise the game as a whole.

There was also problems with chasing people up for things such as the storyboard which caused the narrative and how the game played out to be slightly different to the storyboard.

I believe I can take this experience as a lesson as in hindsight I have realised a lot of our problems would have been solved with a bit more communication among the team. I want to use this experience as a way to get better at leading a team as one of my future goals is to be a lead developer on a triple A IP and for that I will need to be able to effectively run and organise a team.