Week 2: Rewriting the Rules of the Race

Hello again, readers! It's been a week since our last devlog and a lot has changed; so let's go over how the project has evolved.

Game Pitch Presentation for Industry Guests 💻

On Wednesday, May 21st, 2025, our team had the pleasure of pitching our game to a few industry guests. The presentation included:

• Explaining the mechanics
• Showing the screen layout
• Describing the core player experience and fun elements
• Describing what makes our game unique
• Showing a demo of what we made in a short game jam

After our 5-minute presentation, the guests and our fellow peers offered their feedback. Before we talk about about that feedback, here are some of our takeaways from the presentation itself:

Spend more time talking about your mechanics and how they work

When you're pitching a game, explaining how stuff works is more important than the art and music direction, for example. As such, you should spend more time going over how the game plays rather than giving that time to what the game looks and sounds like. This will give more information about the play experience to the audience you're pitching to.

Clarify when something that you show isn't representative of the final game

Using temporary assets is a great way to jumpstart your development. As someone working on the game, you know what will be changed in the future — your audience does not. To them, seeing is believing. No matter how experienced you are in creating video games, your brain can't help but jumping to conclusions based on what's shown to you. Therefore, acknowledge your temporary assets (especially ones that may be contradicting what you're pitching) so you can be on the same page as your audience.

Organizing Feedback 📑

Our team met up the day after the presentation to sort the feedback that we received

Week 2 Progress (5/21 - 5/28)
✔️Shifted Gameplay Focus
✔️️Refined Camera System 
✔️️Updated Character Movement