Day 16

Today I’ve deactivated diagonal movement for the alpha tomorrow, and I’ve re-written the algorithm that checks if the NPC can see the PC to account for this.After doing this, I have been working with the implementation of the NPC death state and animation. I created a function called KillAI to perform these tasks, triggering the animation and making the NPC ‘dead’.
After this, I’ve been put to work updating the NPC models to include bows, since the basic enemy we planned […]

Logo Log

This week I have been focusing on the logotype of our game, since the game is a Bear simulator and the name of the game is ‘Be The Bear’ it would seem fitting to have the logotype of a bear. I first wanted a raging bear sine it can give a good impact but the others disagreed and wanted a more simple logo. While looking at other bear logotypes I found one I based my logo upon. The idea wwas […]

Logo Log

This week I have been focusing on the logotype of our game, since the game is a Bear simulator and the name of the game is ‘Be The Bear’ it would seem fitting to have the logotype of a bear. I first wanted a raging bear sine it can give a good impact but the others disagreed and wanted a more simple logo. While looking at other bear logotypes I found one I based my logo upon. The idea wwas […]

Alpha week

Lasts week the focus of the group was to get alpha done. Personally for me this has meant that  we have had to really decide what the rest of the group is to focus on.
We decided that the main focus for us should be to get all of the main features in and then polish them and add tutorial next week before the alpha testing.
My opinion in general is that the week was very successful. We managed to implement fishing, berry […]

Alpha week

Lasts week the focus of the group was to get alpha done. Personally for me this has meant that  we have had to really decide what the rest of the group is to focus on.
We decided that the main focus for us should be to get all of the main features in and then polish them and add tutorial next week before the alpha testing.
My opinion in general is that the week was very successful. We managed to implement fishing, berry […]

The Unity-3ds Max paradox

This week hasn’t gone as smoothly as I anticipated. I’ve been focusing on making the Forest chieftain which is pretty similar to the Forest creep I did last week. With the Forest creep I also had some problems importing it in to Unity with inverted faces and the weapon not animating correctly. The weapon was easily fixed by removing the parent/child constraint in Motionbuilder and adding it again. Of course I forgot to plot the animation before exporting it to […]

The Unity-3ds Max paradox

This week hasn’t gone as smoothly as I anticipated. I’ve been focusing on making the Forest chieftain which is pretty similar to the Forest creep I did last week. With the Forest creep I also had some problems importing it in to Unity with inverted faces and the weapon not animating correctly. The weapon was easily fixed by removing the parent/child constraint in Motionbuilder and adding it again. Of course I forgot to plot the animation before exporting it to […]

Slightly Coded – Potbellied King – Dev Post 5

Today I started working on the HUD, I didn’t do as much progress as I’d hoped for so I guess I’ll have to work some extra tonight to make up for it. I hate crunching so I’m probably going to take a few breaks to sleep.
Another issue present is the fact that we have to combine our projects into one single for the Alpha presentation. Right now we have some trouble syncing it all toghether meaning that we need to […]

Day 15

This morning was interesting, having slept through both my alarms I awoke just before 11, more rested than I have any weekday the last month, and hurried off to work.the work on the project was far less eventful, though, as more time was spent chasing down annoying bugs so that we have a functioning prototype to show off on friday.During the day, most bugs were luckily eliminated, and the game now works pretty much as intended.

The project

It has been a while since my last post! Working on the first drafts for all the animations and map objects takes up most of my time right now. The focus for us artists on the project has been to create as much placeholder graphic as possible to fill out the alpha version of the game, these placeholders then works as the foundation for the final product. 
The best thing about working with first and second drafts and placeholder graphics, is […]

Attracting people; A second try

I wasnt that pleased of the last result i had regarding the banner, so i dug around and got a second chance in creating a new one.
I consulted Nicodemus (A guest lecturer in the Game design program) about my banner and he gave me some good pointers. My previous banner lacked a good construction, the main focus in the picture fell on the middle part of the picture where the “&” sign was located. And applying the characters to the […]

Slightly Coded – Potbellied King – Dev. Post 4

WELL! Last post I said that I would post the very next day about what I’d done but… I kind of forgot. So I’m posting today instead, hopefully this won’t be a thing that happens far too often.
So we had another Quality Time with Marcus yesterday and it went alot better than the last one (that’s not saying alot though since last time was rather abyssmal) we had far more to show and most of the group members were there […]