Elijah Dixson

2000 errors updating to the new engine version… legacy code causing issues with being able to pivot based on iteration… and a wild idea to have the players take their turns at the same time to encourage communication.

As the players move about the grid of an encounter their light source will uncover the tiles hidden in the shadows. Treasures and enemies can be hiding in the shadows; if they are in a player’s light radius, they won’t be added to the turn order array.

Last semester we were the underdogs challenging the taboo of making a fighting game and we came out victorious and arguably a fan favorite among our cohort. If last semester was Rocky 1 or Karate Kid 1 were no one expected us to win, but we worked hard and we succeeded anyways– this semester was the sequel. The expectations for our success rose tremendously, we got maybe a little over confident over winter break. When we hit our first major road block of figuring out our new art direction the team’s morale dropped off the earth, communication went out the window, and there were days to me at least were it felt like we were living the sequel that didn’t need to happen. But eventually we came around, we rose up from the ashes of the first half of the semester, and we started to live the sequel that everyone always wants– the sequel that is better than the original. 

We did it! We finished Lucha Megadrive and everything is all set up for the show! 

The game is almost done! The cabinet is almost done! The senior show is just around the corner! 

Lucha Megadrive was featured via Champlain College at PAX this week! Tori our environment artist and Natalie our UI/UX Designer / Associate Producer show off the game and here is what players are said about the game:

It is nice to be back in the swing of things!Team mentality is shifting from less discipline focused goals / task to more feature focused goals and tasks.

I was away at GDC this last sprint, but the team did a great job putting together our Alpha!

This week is spring break for Champlain College which means the Lucha Megadrive team is taking some much needed time off! 

For the past two months we have had a lot of progress in each of the areas of our development: art, design, programming, and sound; however, up until today we haven’t put our test scenes together to see how it all works in unison. This week we finally merged our test scenes! The game has gone through a huge amount of changes! We’ve increased our overall visual polish and put in our in progress models of our TWO characters! It was an exciting week for us.

Our team’s dynamic is on the up and up. We are planning out the senior show. And we are ahead of schedule with our arcade cabinet construction!