Thursday sprint report
Sprint target: release 1.5 (avatar upgrade)
Days worked: 19/31 | Pomodoros logged: 158
Task points completed: 100/248
Today, in prep for tackling the avatar makeup task, I recreated the work I lost recently when Illustrator crashed. I took the opportunity to correct some facial symmetry issues – just a few pixels (most notably moving the nose up slightly as suggested by Senaar), but the agents look prettier to me now!
Victoria has created the childhood versions of all the different facial features. They all look adorable. <3 She's working on avatar musculature now, which includes experimenting with the default shoulder width.
Next dev day is tomorrow, see you then!
Link to the Trello
Comments (7)
Will our avatar ever be shown in poses/doing stuff? It would be cool to see something a little more interesting than a T-pose, show off some body language depending on the current scene.
Yeah I hope so! This is actually already in one scene in the game – if your agent goes all the way through Operator Training, her hands get cuffed behind her back during the Resistance To Interrogation phase in Norway. I definitely want to include more scenes like this. The challenge is the amount of artwork requirements we're generating. Bearing in mind that now each top has 6 bra sizes x 3 body shapes: every time we create a new top, we have to draw 18 unique versions. If we add (say) one new arm position, every top we add to the game requires 36 pieces of artwork to support it. There are some ways to get around it: we could limit the clothes that are worn in the pose scenes, and we could just stop bitching and knuckle down and draw 36 versions of everything :-D I'm interested in doing it, but not exactly sure *how* to do it yet.
So, one thing I was wondering about looking at the Sprint Report that I hadn't noticed until now, why is it that having more control of your agents hair color is limited to rock chicks? I'd love to give my Blonde, Cheerleader, Alpha female the ability to have pink highlights.
Great idea, I'll try and squeeze it in!
Yay!! Excited about the new body options!
the avatar really is going to be the centrepiece of this game :) i love that you keep adding more and more to it.
I approve of your choice of image for this post.