Ark! Complete
Posted: 7th July 2010
After four weeks of continuous development we have finally completed our prototype of Ark! for our Integrated Development Project. The game was originally pitched for the Dare To Be Digital competition but unfortunately we were unsuccessful in securing a place in Dundee. Nevertheless we persevered and persuaded our lecturers that this project would we worthwhile and more relevant to the careers we are pursuing. Unfortunately we lost a programmer in the process due to him being on a separate course but we gained an additional artist. This required the project to be re-planned and a few features had to face the axe unfortunately in order to ensure that we had a quality product at the end of the project.
It has been extremely good fun working on this project and what really pleases me is that we haven't made a quick and dirty prototype - we could easily continue development on this game and scale it to be a fully fledged product without having to drastically change anything. It also runs smoothly despite the fact we haven't tried to optimise it at any point so far which is something we would should we add more complex features into it. You can download a copy of the prototype from the project page as well as other design documents etc.