Today I have made some progress regarding the room sizes. The first 2 iterations were very small, which first felt big. But when you move around in it with a first person camera it was very small. I also forgot to add 2 of the doors. So I had to re-do the rooms, add 2 more doors so we have doors in the middle of every wall. I made the room much bigger as well. But even with the room getting bigger we still need to take into consideration the wall sizes and how much furniture and stuff is going to be added. So rather that we do the rooms bigger and make the speed of the player faster perhaps. The room size that I came up with now feels much better at the moment but I still have to "decorate it" to see if it still feels good.
On top of all that our government issued a statement that all schools should be preparing to close down due to the corona (Covid 19) virus. It's just a recommendation for our sake, we are not prohibited to go to school. But they prefer if we work from home. Which is something that none in the group actually wants to do. It causes most problem for the programmers this early in the production. Since we are developing for the PlayStation 4 this time around this will cause some trouble if we are being held at home. Since we are only being asked to stay at home we can still come to school. But we should start to work from home either way if this thing becomes permanent. So we are more comfortable to do so if the worst were to happen and the school shuts down for real.
If this keeps going I hope we get some extra time with project 2. Since this is the most important thing for us.
Regarding the game we have and when I say we I mean me and Emil who is the other level designer. We have looked at some architecture , and layouts on how modern Asian buildings could look so we keep in mind how and where to put the walls.
I have also looked at a GDC talk about level design working with negative space. That well placed nothingness is highly important and could do wonders for how you make a level. So some research and some work done and some meeting regarding this virus and how we are going to work from home. How we structure meetings and role calls and everything regarding this.
So tomorrow I will work from home. That will be a challenge since I'm not comfortable working from home, so much distraction.. We'll see how it goes.
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