It has been a long but not very fruitful week. When coming back into town after a year away, it seems that everyone wants to see you. I have no problem with this, and family and friends are important, but it means that this week has been a slow one.
The good news is that I planned ahead. I had scheduled this week to be a setup/relax week so that the team could get settled (if they were moving), get some rest, and prepare themselves to start on the Cynapse TD Alpha. This week, we will be having a meeting to review our group coding conventions and to go over a the existing game code, as there are large chunks of code that were written by NCSU video game development club members that are now no longer students. Our goal is to identify places where we can optimize existing in game functionality and to establish a coding convention for us all to use to keep our group code clean.
The A Big Mistake — our fully voiced Skyrim mod — has not been worked on at all; my brother and I have been working for quite some time and have (for the last little while) been stuck on making scenes in-game due to needing voicework to fully implement them. Though I have made voice acting temp tracks for a few character roles, I still wish we had better voice acting for these roles*. I have scoured /r/voiceacting and message boards (http://voiceacting.proboards.com/thread/22491/elder-scrolls-skyrim-voices-needed) in a desparate search for quality vocal hobbyists to some avail, yet there are still some roles that I wish were better. At this point in time my brother is in town and time dedicated to this project has been cut down for the next couple of weeks while he is here as he is now working full time in his genetics lab and no longer has time to help with the mod.
That was about it for this week. Things are off to a slow start, I am “working” on and off by establishing communications and trying to round the team up. and my brother is in town until who knows when, so I am taking time from the Skyrim mod to relax with him for the next week and a half. I’m looking forward to sharing updates soon!
*contact me if you know good voiceactors that would work for free on a hobbyist project.