Mail Dog's Quest- Postmortem

• -Mail Dog’s Quest

This was a very interesting game to develop, the idea of creating a game based on an already established world and expanding it is very interesting to me.

In the beginning, there was a lot I wanted to include.

Some of those features were:

• • Free time.
  • Being able to walk freely around the town.
  • There were five levels.
  • You could buy different items at the market or bar.
  • All the dialogues had images.
• But due to time constraints most were sadly removed.
• So, what stayed were:
  • 3 levels.
  • A room where that works as an interlude between the levels.
  • Just Firulais and the boss have photos.
• The first iteration of the game was just a short proof of concept. There all the dogs had photos. The mail office was smaller, and there was just one level.
• Later I made the mail office bigger and included gold.
• In the second iteration, I started to polish the game, removing the break time, and removing the images for the residents. Adding cats to make the cast more diverse. Also adding a room where players can save the game.
• At the last iteration, I added the last level, and a short scene in the room when the player interacted with the bookshelf and the pizza in the second day.
• Some failures were not being able to create free time, because it was a mess in RPG Maker MV by creating switches that would trigger the different events, so I kept it simple focusing on the levels.  
• Then the profile photos were removed because I had to use sprites already made by other people, and the dogs didn’t fit most of the DAW’s dog cast (they weren’t the same breed).
• The successes were being able to deliver a complete game with three levels, creating cutscenes with a little movement to make them more interesting, and successfully developing the interlude house scene where the player can save their progress.
• If I would work more on this project in the future:
  • I would try to add break time, being able to go to the restaurant or the supermarket.
  • Being able to walk around the town and speak with other dogs.
  • Change the intro photo and put one more related to the Dogs at Work universe.
  • Perhaps being able to customize your dog.