description
Our project depicts an apocalypse story happening on Planet Veggie. The planet is going to be destroyed. Tomato happened to own a spaceship and he can choose who to go with him. So basically the story is unraveled first by a single story line and then diverges. The different choices you make will lead to different consequences.
process
Adam and I first divided the job equally into two. For the visual assets, he first came up with the sketches and then I manipulated them. To make it look nicer on the screen, I manipulated them by using photoshop to get rid of those paper-like elements, changing the background color into white and use brush to enhance the border lines. One problem we have encountered during the visual setting process is that it is so time-consuming to first draw all the panels on paper and then manipulate them through computer. It is hard for us to keep track with the schedule. On account of this, we condense our follow up situation from four to two, which is actually a pity for the overall project. If we have made it to come up with all the panels, there would have been more to play with on JavaScript.
For the coding part, we divided works as well. Adam made the title page and two endings, I made the layout for the rest, and we do the interaction part together. In my opinion, we also encountered some problems during the coding process, which is the lack of communication. We both uploaded our code to the google folder to keep track with each other and adjust each other’s works. However, since I often forgot to tell him what I have done and what I was going to do, the work we had done sometimes overlapped, which also made the process sort of inefficient.
At the very end of the process, we decided to add background music to every single page we have to add interaction as well. For me, this actually stepped up the interaction between our project and the user. I’m really satisfied with the decision we made.
post-mortem
To sum up, I think this is a very precious experience for me to both enhance my photoshop and coding techniques . For both, I gradually learned a great bunch of keyboard shortcuts to make working more efficient. In addition, in terms of coding, I learned a lot of techniques such as how to use incorporate buttons in html and the if function in JavaScript, which I think is very valuable, especially the technique by using the if function to change button with an identical one, which helped a lot for our comic project.
In terms of teamwork and cooperation, I think I still need to work more on that. Since communication is an extremely crucial element in the process, I was thinking that if we had communicated more, we could probably have a relatively greater outcome, even though I’m really satisfied with what we have now.