We have been proceeding with our game Naar and reaching to new places, things are going a bit slow but if we nail the mechanics and have them done before Christmas, then we can start working on making a playable demo and hopefully with an interesting narrative.
I have been writing Devblogs for Naar so I had to prioritize that, you can read more about them at our website: NaarTheGame.net.
However, I have been doing a lot of work with my comrades, everything from creating spells, to designing levels.
My part is the being the Lead Designer, but as we are a small group of students that title seem to vary in work but at the same time a lot of fun. The negative thing about it is that I dont have the time to get stronger in one area, as I have to be everywhere at once, like for an instance, I worked together with our 3D modeller Marcus to establish rules for the magic casting and combining (We have a new design that should be fun and powerful to use) and then I jumped in and worked on animating a dash skill, and tried to create clothing physics for Mokhtar (Our character). Then I tried to create a new spell to learn how blueprints work in Unreal Engine 4, and to finally work some on adding stuff to the level.
It is a lot of fun! But I need to get better at producing more stuff, we need to get going!
The publication of Naar is getting bigger, a lot of middle eastern people have showed interest in our Facebook page, but sadly we have had more downloads than feedback submits, and we are still trying to figure out how to resolve that problem.
At first we only had the feedback link on our website, but then we added it into the game to collect people who forget to leave feedback, the result was a bit better but we wanted more people to leave us feedback.
Now so far we have released a 0.4 build including a little bigger level and tutorial information, two magic spells, refined movement and an enemy that chases and attacks you. So get in, download, play and tell us what you think about the game so far.
A Student Game Design Blog - By Ahmad Ali 