Temple of Light (28 April-4 May)

Last week I spent most of my time trying to implement light into the levels. The biggest problem I had was to get a cozy atmosphere in the levels but still make it playable and not to dark. The reason this was so hard was because our temple is positioned inside/under a mountain. An easy way to get the right type of light would have been to have windows for example which would let me use the light from the […]

Temple of Light (28 April-4 May)

Last week I spent most of my time trying to implement light into the levels. The biggest problem I had was to get a cozy atmosphere in the levels but still make it playable and not to dark. The reason this was so hard was because our temple is positioned inside/under a mountain. An easy way to get the right type of light would have been to have windows for example which would let me use the light from the […]

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Today my work has contained creating a “stop” function to make the player’s movement stop at the next queued tile.After that, I worked on making the vision cone for the NPCs. No, not to make them detect the player, but to make the vision cone visible to the player.I started off trying to make the vision cone with Gizmos (a type of visual debugging system in Unity) but after a hour I realized that it wasn’t especially well suited for […]

Fourth week of development!

Last week was an exciting week for me and the group in general! We have a game now, kind of. Our alpha is feature complete and we are ready this week for a feature freeze.
A lot of work went in to squash out the bugs in the movement system this week, and making sure it works for all cases. I devoted the first 2-3 days of last week to this. Also, we added items! Three items are in the game. […]

Mechropolis – The Grabber And It’s Chain

We call this cute little thing the Grabber. It’s able to fire it’s claw at a distance and grab onto things. A clever player might lure it into pulling a lever that is out of reach, or fuse it with a Controller (a robot that enables a fusion to be controlled by the player) and hookshot over a chasm.
One thing about this robot that we knew would be a challenge when we designed it is it’s ability to fire the […]

Fourth week of development!

Last week was an exciting week for me and the group in general! We have a game now, kind of. Our alpha is feature complete and we are ready this week for a feature freeze.
A lot of work went in to squash out the bugs in the movement system this week, and making sure it works for all cases. I devoted the first 2-3 days of last week to this. Also, we added items! Three items are in the game. […]

Mechropolis – The Grabber And It’s Chain

We call this cute little thing the Grabber. It’s able to fire it’s claw at a distance and grab onto things. A clever player might lure it into pulling a lever that is out of reach, or fuse it with a Controller (a robot that enables a fusion to be controlled by the player) and hookshot over a chasm.
One thing about this robot that we knew would be a challenge when we designed it is it’s ability to fire the […]

Day 17 – Alpha

Today was spent debugging issues for the Alpha presentation. We managed to get the game pretty much up and running, and went to the presentation.After the presentation, the day was called off, and we proceeded to take a long weekend.

week 4

I started working on the grappling hook item for the game. The item was to be modeled in 3ds max following the concept skis of it that was made by one other artist. I started by creating the hook and from that I created the rope. The large bundle of rope that the player was going to hold was created separately and simple. After it was done we needed to figure out how much we needed to scale it. By […]

Week 5

Most of this week has been to plan towards the open Alpha testing on friday. What graphical assets the game need in order to give the player feedback and directions.
I tasked myself early during the week to design the core lightning of the game, step by step progressing towards the aesthetic feeling of enclosed environment with fire as the main source of light. The torches had to go through several design processes and iteration until they became final. They began […]

Week 5

Most of this week has been to plan towards the open Alpha testing on friday. What graphical assets the game need in order to give the player feedback and directions.
I tasked myself early during the weekto design the core lightning of the game, step by step progressing towards the aesthetic feeling of enclosed environment with fire as the main source of light. The torches had to go through several design processes and iteration until they became final. They began as […]

Fmod

The primary artifact I’ve been working on this week is to implement FMod studio support.FMod studio is a sound design tool for games that quite recently added support to Unity. FMod studio is not to be confused with the FMod library which Unity already uses internaly to play sounds. The primary use of FMod studio in this project is that we can add variables to what FMod studio calls “Events” the sound designer then uses these variables to […]