Production II at Champlain College

Gaze of the Abyss Postmortem - Part 1: Team Postmortem

I am very proud of the work that my team accomplished during the development of Gaze of the Abyss. However, in hindsight, the game was...

Gaze of the Abyss Postmortem - Part 2: Personal Postmortem

I am very proud of the work that my team accomplished during the development of Gaze of the Abyss. However, in hindsight, the game was...

Production II Team Meetings

Week 14 - Meeting and Working With Teammates While as a team we meet to go over what everyone has been working on and will be doing, the...

Production II Level Design

Week 12 - Designing the World Once we cleared the direction of the game and its mechanics, we could begin work on levels. The first step...

Production II Designing for Separation

Week 10 - Asymmetric Gameplay One of the core concepts behind the game was separating the camera from the avatar--both are controlled by...

Production II Joining a New Team

Week 7 - Joining a New Team Integrating with the Team Normally in our production classes at Champlain, all of the teams are new for each...

Production II After Mid Mortems

Week 6 - After Mid Mortems Cuts The Mid Mortem presentations blew me away. There were so many good games and presentations--I’m really...

Production II Before Mid Mortem Presentations

Week 5 - Before Mid Mortem After our final week of prototyping, we were given two weeks to refine one of the games that we’ve been...

Production II Choosing a Prototype

Week 4- Choosing a Prototype After presenting our final prototype during the fourth class of the semester, we needed to start thinking...

Production II Prototype 3

Week 3- Prototype 3 Concepting This week of Production began similarly to week 1. We started by brainstorming and then concepting three...

Level Designer