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• No Need to Read It's Old News
  April 16, 2026 by ejcaie

  As is inevitable in any project, our team has faced its fair share of difficulties getting our project functional and meeting our recent change in direction. With shifts in responsibilities and countl... Continue reading
• Devlog: God has Cursed Me For My Hubris and My Work is Never Finished (Evan Caie)
  March 22, 2026 by ejcaie

  As expected, as we approach the end of our development cycle, our team is left with some tough choices about what content will and will not make it into our final vertical slice. Shifts in responsibil... Continue reading
• Devlog: Downscoping the Onboarding Process, Turning a Placeholder into a Game
  March 20, 2026 by gallae#downscoping, #scope, #onboarding, #tutorials, #minigames, #design, #asset reuse, #code reuse

  Going into the final sprint before our beta playtest, it was clear that our original plan for onboarding was not going to be attainable in time for the deliverable date. We initially wanted a cutscene... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #3 - Mistakes, Hard Pivots, and Something I'm proud of
  March 20, 2026 by Taco

  The weeks between this upload and the last have been generally quite difficult. My original goal was to focus on creating the textures for the already modelled environments of our game, which I starte... Continue reading

  
• Dev Log 3: Beta – Polishing up the game – Transferring skills from UI to 2D Art
  March 18, 2026 by michelleV225

  My task as well as my battling my mentality – Posing Challenges As the final finished product deadline approaches, sometimes unprecedented circumstances can happen during this pivotal moment in time... Continue reading

  
• Devlog: Arc of Play
  February 21, 2026 by gallae#game design, #narrative design, #game pacing

  Going into the Feb 5-12th sprint, one of the biggest question marks about our game that remained to be answered was a finalized, or at least formalized, arc of play that created a clear path towards t... Continue reading

  
• Devlog: Environment Design
  February 21, 2026 by gallae#game design, #environment design, #level design, #3d modeling

  During our end of January sprint, I decided to tackle designing the environment the game would be played in, a wizard tower that would be filled with magical trinkets and which would have different ar... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #2 - Art Direction and Communication
  February 13, 2026 by Taco

  For the last 2 weeks there have been major internal shakeups to the team dynamic because of outside factors. This has led to me becoming the current art lead, and thus, shifting the look of the game t... Continue reading

  
• Design Process of Representing a Phone in a Magic Orb
  February 11, 2026 by michelleV225

  Context and my task Due to our recent shift in the game concept, we still had some design challenges that popped up during alpha production. One of the main obstacles we were attempting to solve was r... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #1 - Minigame Mockup Art
  January 29, 2026 by Taco

  During our discussion of how we would translate the original project’s minigames into the new vision for the project, there was a lot of talk about turning the minigames into tasks in the format of... Continue reading

  
• Devlog: Finding a New Direction and Balancing Time Pressure (Evan Caie)
  January 22, 2026 by ejcaie

  Our New Direction and Rationale Our biggest learning point moving into the preparation phase of development came from our complete change in game direction, fueled by feedback from professors and a gr... Continue reading

  
• Cauldron Minigame and Navigation (Michelle Vuong)
  January 21, 2026 by michelleV225

  Catch-up for the community – Introducing the new concept Before going into what my individual contributions are for the preparation phase, let me quickly update the community on what we changed. Our... Continue reading

  
• Devlog: Choosing a pet
  November 21, 2025 by 8huva

  The Social Circle is a transformative game about managing social media addiction. It explores this concept through a small tamagotchi- like pet that the player takes care of. The player can interact w... Continue reading

  
• Devlog: Functionality Testing (Joshua James)
  November 21, 2025 by joshuaj1231

  One of the key areas I identified to prototype for this project was the different health meters that would serve to demonstrate the pet's health. The idea for these four energy bars is that they would... Continue reading

  
• Devlog: Gamifying Doomscrolling (Olivia Workman)
  November 18, 2025 by gallae#social media, #minigames, #prototyping, #game design

  When prototyping for our transformational game about social media addiction, the thing I wanted to tackle most urgently was the how we would go about gamifying using social media in the first place. T... Continue reading

  
• Devlog: UI Assets Direction and Navigation Functionality
  November 18, 2025 by michelleV225

  For my prototypes, I decided to explore UI assets and navigation. Social Circle, as of this time, is meant to be a game designed for mobile. For mobile games, UI design is one of the most important as... Continue reading