Interactive Characters - s5294895 Dharma MacDonald

  Presentation Slides Finally We're getting somewhere Finally, after week of gruelling lack of progress and a lot of confusion and frustration, I managed to pinpoint when the error occurred and was able to slowly transfer data over. I built the project a total of 10 times over the course of this past week, and let me tell you, a 16GB USB is not a big enough storage device. I made a few alterations; I no longer have roaming NPC characters (even though that would've been so cool) and now they stand still around the (now considerably emptier) marketplace. They have randomised dialogue when the player interacts with them, though, so at least that's something I didn't have before. I instead used the NPCs as a way to guide the player to Alex, who now no longer has a sick character model, but is now a default Mannequin. I got a few people to playtest my project as it stands, and most enjoyed the experience.  Behold Lyra, the player character. In this picture, you might notice ...

  Progress At this point, it seems almost ironic that this is the title of this section of my journal. Because what I have made this week is not, in fact, progress, but I have backtracked about a month of progress. I have mentioned that my project has had trouble building. Well, it turns out that not only is it having trouble building, but it is eating itself from the inside out and slowly destroying both itself and my sanity (and potentially the universities computers.) I've come to the unfortunate realisation that attempting to resolve this issue is futile, and I've wasted the past few weeks trying to fix this error. It would've been easier to backtrack from the beginning. I've lost progress in my attempt to embark on this quest alone. Alas, I am stubborn and it has taken me half a trimester to come to this conclusion. It was when I hit my breaking point, in the middle of class and no work to show for myself other that an blue screen of utter humiliation and a few me...