Games - Hobby to Career

About the project Brainstorming & initial research Initial project setup Camera Movement & navigation The Inventory System The Dialogue System Game progress & data storage Animation & Cutscenes UI…

Assignment Submission In the middle of week 12 was the the deadline for submission of the pitch presentation and documentation. This was the culmination of all work the team has put together in both…

Leadership Being a team leader is of course a lot of work. Most of my time has been spent discussing with the team what needs to be done to ensure everybody understands it and we are making consistent…

Assignment Preparation As the deadline for the group assignment gets closer, I created a list of tasks that need to be done before the submission. The team reviewed them and agreed. Once the plan was…

Losing a team member This week our UX Designer Mary decided to take a break from the course and continue in the future. This came as a surprise for the team. Regardless, we support her in her decision…

In Week 8 the team raised some long-hidden concerns. Being part of the team Early this week, our UX designer Mary raised some major concerns she had. She felt left out and felt that the team was…

This week we finally solved our 3D assets bottleneck. Blend of skills Our supervisor Giovanni prompted me to think about utilising more Asset Store (Unity Technologies, 2021) assets to reduce some of…

Halfway through the course, it is time for a mock pitch. "Will pitch for money" Pitching is something every professional has to do in one way or another in their profession. I like to look at it in a…

Week 5 is when all the materials came together (and had a party). Shaders This week my tasks have all been around the shaders for the different materials players will be able to change the environment…

Week 4 for The Cake is a Lie team was single-handedly the busiest week so far! Creating the first-person hands One of the reasons we chose to go for a first-person game is to reduce the complexity of…

Week 3 was when team The Cake is a Lie really took the batter and started cooking! Teamwork FTW This week the team really joined together and collaborated. We got the whole team on a call and spent…

Joined Together After a long break from the previous game jam, I participated in it was time for another one. This time it was the GMTK Game Jam's turn. I've been watching GMTK's videos for a long…

The second week has been rather uneventful for The Cake is a Lie team. However, we did progress with our ideation. Ideation We continued with our ideation from week 1 and expanded on the idea we had…

Welcome to my Development Log. The second course in my Indie Game Development masters degree called Co-Creative Design & Development Practice has started and it is time to dig into it. Forming the…

Ludum Dare with IGD In this second game jam of the year, I had the opportunity to join another five students from my Development Practice course. I enjoyed working in a team after working by myself in…

Now that the second Rapid Ideation session is complete, it is time to look back and reflect on it. Execution During the theme reveal webinar, Jamie White suggested we should jump into the action and…

Goals Similarly to the first Rapid Ideation Session, I started with defining the goals I would like to achieve. Theme The theme for this rapid ideation session is - our creations should be guided…

The Rapid Ideation Session 1 officially ended this Wednesday. At the start of the two-week-long session, I wrote about the goals I would like to achieve. Now is the time to review and reflect on what…

My first game jam Like many other participants, this was my very first game jam. I've participated in hackathons, but I've worked exclusively with programmers. I powered through my impostor's syndrome…

Hi, I am Georgi Tsaklev, a Senior Software Engineer. I've recently started the MA Indie Game Development course at Falmouth University and I am going to be using this blog to record my journey through…