DevLog 10 Overview of Lost in Zania Development

I am proud with what I managed to complish and achieved with my final year project Lost in Zania. before I working on this project I knew what I what to do, and I knew it was going to take alot of everything work, time, passion, deternation, skills, management, hardware, approaches, fixing, testing, and many more on all the roles within game development and production. Things I that people do not get to see and expierence in the background. and I wanted people to see and feel that hard  work and effort into the game while they are playing it. Becuase it is hard to translate all of the hard hours visually.

I didn't just learn about game design and asset skills from this project. I also discovered a lot about myself- how to push my limits, execute tasks, and maintain the right mindset in different situations. I learned how emotions can either boost or hinder progress, the energy required to perform at my best, and the importance of perspective. I'm proud to share this journey of personal growth with you.

When I made my game design document, I was excited about envisioning my game to its fullest potential as an AA open-world game experience set in a fictional version of Tanzania. I wanted to push myself to deliver something that would resemble that vision on a smaller scale within this project, regarding unique and characters, the non-combat, the dynamic gameplay, the constant nature player engagement, I was purely driven by excitement and passion which got me to create amazing things, like the 15 different unique characters all with their separate animations and just copied and pasted, the entire building, dialogue system, trust system, the assets, and the rest. But too much can lead you in the wrong direction, where you begin to think about stuff that nobody will notice or care about in the game, and you might get lost in the details. For me, it was the assets, mainly knives and cups, which never got added to the game, where I focused and put much energy into the details, when a basic version would have done the job and saved me much time. During the 2nd semester, I began to control when I should excite, I had a more reserved approach, knowing where to spend the energy on and what to focus on, and seeing the work from different perspectives. Staying calm under pressure, even when the mistakes you made came from you or when things are not going as intended, learn to recover and focus on the greater goal and role you are positioned in.