Post Mortem blogging.

So, we're sitting just before the submission date, here's a little retrospective. I really did quite enjoy this module, I'm a creative guy and this really allowed me to take advantage of that. I actually enjoyed working with my groupmates, and I feel we really came together, especially at the end and turned out a quality product. Our pitch went great, and that was awesome.

I really like the game we came out with too, it actually sounds like something I would play. I love steampunk, I liked the types of bad guys we came up with and I like the general concepts. It's really sweet. Hopefully our design doc does well.

A mistake I made was writing my blogs in my journal, I should have just done them online. It made me lazy in terms of transcribing. I also definitely should've been more forceful in terms of getting my group to come together and do work in the early stages, otherwise I think it's been fun.

Billy

Week 10: The Waltz

Ok so that goes to my friend Craig Boyle. He gave me the idea for the Waltz and I think it's genius considering it's a combat system based around a series of 3 inputs, it also has connotations of rhythm style and dance. Genius, I think.

Anyway I found a workaround for the huge moveset and got it down to (I think) 189 moves.

1. Input Commands:  (on XBOX controller for the sake of example)
2. X - Stabbing attack
3. Y - Vertical Swings
4. B - Horizontal Swings
5. A - Jump
6. LT - Dodge
7.  
8. [XYB][XXY][XBX][YYB][XXX] So this is a series of 5 triplets. What a triplet does changes based on the triplet used before it. They are sorted into 7 sections. These are:
9.  
10. Triple X [XXX]
11.  
12. Triple Y [YYY]
13.  
14. Triple B [BBB]
15.  
16. Double X [XXY]
17.          [YYX]
18.          [YXY]
19.          [XYY]
20.          [YYB]
21.          [YBY]
22.          [BYY]
23.  
24. Double Y [YYX]
25.          [YXY]
26.          [XYY]
27.          [YYB]
28.          [YBY]
29.          [BYY]
30.  
31. Double B [BBX]
32.          [BXB]
33.          [XBB]
34.          [BBY]
35.          [BYB]
36.          [YBB]
37.  
38. Button Mash [XYB]
39.             [BYX]
40.             [BXY]
41.             [YXB]
42.             [XBY]
43.             [YBX]

So that's what the combo works off of. I think this a stroke of genius.