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About Lili B.

My name is Lili Ball and I am here in the Interactive Media Productions program because I would like to find a career in the graphic design world whether its creating logos for a company or making video games from scratch. Since 6th grade, I’ve always loved video games and had an interest in art. Cause of this, I figured trying this program would be the best for me to test my limits and see how well I like this field of work and so far its as fun as I imagined!

Lili B.

Interactive Media

Capstone Idea

My capstone idea for senior year is a joint effort between me and Jon Rivera to create a 2D RPG video game based in a walmart-like store with boss fights, unique weapons, allies and enemies. We hope to make this game both engaging and silly for all those goofy people looking for a good laugh.

So far, as of 9/15 the 32-bit art has been pretty fun to create and not as hard to work with as I thought it’d be. I’ve personally finished the tile patterns for all of the rooms and am half way done all the props in each area. The next part to start is the walls and borders for the rooms so it has a little bit of a fancy feel.

Capstone Week 1-2(9/29/23)

As of this week, I have completed the designs for the wall tile, props, floor tile, and nearly finished the border designs for each of the levels. While it has been a touch difficult to do the pixel art, I feel I’m adjusting well and hope to be able to finish the pixel art portion this month so I can look in to coding next month!

Capstone Update - October

Capstone work has been decently slow as of late. Personally still feel like the game is coming along but the only notable thing that has happened is testing out Unity and then studying C-Sharp coding with Brackey’s videos on YouTube. I believe that all of the props and tile work is complete so that is a plus side and I am hoping to finish up the code study by the end of the month so I can get into coding and painting in the game!

Capstone Update - November

For the most part, still on schedule and done the code study. I have been using many external resources too such as LinkedIn classes to get extra notes on 2D game design as well. There has been times were Jon and I have periodically switched places and I’ve been doing spritesheet work while he does some coding and starting up Unity as well. I will start to paint in the environment on Unity in hopes of having a completed environment by the end of December at the very latest.

Capstone Update - November 28-30

While progress has been slow in the beginning, both Jon and I have been able to transfer and start up a whole lot of progress on Unity. We have been transferring sprites and laying out the map for our game with little to no issues. We have yet to get into the coding part of the game but laying out everything will definitely help make our lives easier when we do implement C sharp code and RPG elements.

Overall, the capstone experience has been good! Not too much to add though for photography until the map is laid out and I’m proud of what has been achieved thus far. There were hiccups with making the tiles and when I first started Unity, but after the first time, it became second nature to use Unity and organize my files.

Capstone Update - December & January

Since November, there has been a ton of progress in Unity! Jon and I have been able to finish all the animations for the sprites and the produce section is completely laid out. We have been able to start with the coding and hope to be done with at least a majority of it in March.

Overall, the Capstone Experience hasn’t been too much of a burden and I feel Jon and I have been making great, consistent progress with our game. We have hit some bumps, such as animation taking longer than expected, but luckily made that time up since laying out the map was easier than expected! I have definitely grown more comfortable with using Unity and nothing really major has set us back, aside from some issues with sprite sheets (some pixels didn’t fully erase).

Hopefully, I can improve on my coding and keeping track of the time I spend on each task seeing as I sometimes forget to clock in on Clockify.

Capstone Update - February

February has personally been my most productive month thus far. I have completed coding for player movement and Jon has been working with the enemy AI, making it so they can notice the player character and follow them to initiate fights. I was able to add a patrol path to all of the enemies as well, allowing them to move in a set area and give the enemies more life. The health system for the player and enemies is nearly complete too so now it’s on to projectiles and final touches with the roleplay element and the menus!

Overall, the Capstone experience has had it’s ups and downs, but it’s still fun to work with. The coding has been frustrating at times but other than that, it’s been enjoyable and simple.

Some positives with working on this year-long project is plenty of time to make sure that the end result will be polished up or at the very least it can give an idea as to what the final draft of it would be. Some negatives with this is the frustration that’s come with the project and doing all of the coding without getting tired of working on the same thing most of the time.

I definitely feel I’ve improved with using Clockify and I have been using most if not all class time to work on the Capstone and have accomplished a lot in that time! I also am feeling more confident working with C# code, making scripting easier and I’m running into less logical and regular errors.

My goal for the end of next month is to make sure all the basic mechanics such as health, damage, animations, and projectiles all work accordingly so we can focus on the roleplay elements and the menus.

Capstone Update - March

March is already over and it moved by fast! Luckily, Jon and I have been able to make remakable progress, having all of the health, damage, and projectile scripts all set up. The only part aside from putting in the roleplay aspects is the main menu and making sure enemy animations are triggered at the proper times.

There were some bumps when it came to putting in the damage registering against enemies and getting the projectiles to move in the proper directions, but all of those issues were solved within the day! I feel confident in my abilities to code now and I’m so proud of how the game, Self Checkout, is coming together.

I hope within the next 2 weeks we can have the main menu and dialogue parts in the game, polishing up any glitches and feel proud of the project Jon and I have done.

Capstone Update - The Finale

Well here we finally are. After working every other day on a video game since September of last year, Jon and I finally made it to the end. We were able to get a fully functional dialogue system in and the main menu for the game even has a bit of life as well!

SkillsUSA went by and, despite some unexpected craziness, we still got 3rd place in the state for Video game design and interactive media application. We also had the dialogue up and running in time for the competition as well.

Over all, capstone was a bumpy road in the beginning, but as time went on and I started to get used to the applications we used, Jon and I were able to push through and show off at least a functional level from Self Checkout. To any juniors or freshmen looking to join the interactive media class, it is very fun and you will never have a dull moment. Just remember to prioritize and hold yourself accountable for getting your future projects or capstones done too.