For Week 7, I've written and finalized the dialogue between the Well-Witch, Pettenedda, as well as finished the cutscene details for the introductions of two different enemies: the Boogeyman-like antagonist, Babau, and the Bog-borne lizard creatures, the Biddrina. The dialogue utilizes a screenplay script format, making the appropriate usage of action lines and spoken lines. Other than Pettenedda's dialogue, I have fully written the cutscene details for the aforementioned enemies, Babau and the Biddrina, documenting their behaviors, the "mood" for the scene set-up, and noting everything that will happen during their respective scenes, in order to fully represent them, and implement them into the finalized, packaged version of the project, further into development. Another responsibility I chose for myself was to write the "plot summary" on our project's Itch.Io page--drafting it first within its housing Word Document, before porting it over to the page itself for when the project is released, and uploaded here at the end of its development cycle. Fully scripting the in-game dialogue, cutscene sequences, and the summary on Itch.Io took about 1.5 hours, from start to finish (editing and revising included).

On top of completing the dialogue and cutscene details for Soul-Ladra, I also began researching extra tutorial and tips/tricks videos to help with my block out for the "central" region for our drafted map of the game's overworld (map credit to Andrew Foradas). My responsibilities involve prototype the environment for both the Outer Woods, and the Pathway that resides within it (i.e. the "middle" portion of the map attached above). The path within the forest-y area under my "jurisdiction" will require, most likely, a spline of some sort, so I have been delving into several videos in which splines are examined and taught in-depth, so that I may better utilize them for Soul-Ladra. Combined with those videos, I've been refreshing my memory on many different aspects to environmental design--material layers and blending, the newly-released PCG framework, and several other basic "refresher" videos for a low-poly game, like our proposed project is. As my block-out is set to begin on October 4, 2023, to meet our team's second Sprint deadline--October 16, 2023--I wanted to ensure I fully re-learned all of the aspects for the entire process of environmental design--blocking out, detailing, polishing, lighting, and finalizing--to that I can dive headfirst without any problems or hesitation in regards to a certain tool or area of the engine. In total, I have spent five hours watching and refreshing my memory with these videos.