End of the Project

Well I have to be honest. The end of the year has crept up on me. I thought I have until the November exam period to finish my project but found out this morning that the SDI presentations are only a few weeks away. I haven't finished my project but I'm not going to keep working on the level itself. From here on I'll be tying up all the loose ends. I've finally built the $3000 computer that can run my project the way it's meant to be so I'll be running through that in my next blog post.

As it stands the ice part of the level is complete and I've even put in a small anti-gravity area in the middle. I haven't fixed the road/vegetation problem so that will be left the way it is. The dense and coastal jungles are finished.

I won't be putting North Koreans into the level after all. I don't have time and the whole "ethics of shooting virtual people" topic was way too big to cover in the limited time I have left. (To be honest I thought it wasn't an issue, they're only pixels on screen after all).

One of the last things I need to do is document my level with screenshots and video. I've used the free version of Fraps (video recording limited to 30 second segments) to capture video of the level in the editor and also some footage from Crysis itself. The footage from Crysis is a showcase of the game itself to show where I got the ideas and inspiration.

Basically, as far as the level goes, the parts that will be left out because of lack of time are:

• North Koreans
• Roads
• Towns
• Villages
• Military Bases
• Most Vehicles (a few example vehicles are included)

It pretty much just the terrain and lighting with examples of some aliens and vehicles.