Project “Totemic”

 

Concept art by Nils Wennergren

Theme Park
We’ve been tasked with creating a Game for a course called Theme Park. This involves building a game cabinet and then design original and interesting controls for said cabinet. The games we’ll be creating during this course will be presented at the GGC (Gotland Game Conferance) in Visby, Sweden. Croikey!
Totemic – Our Game
Alright, so we got together, and managed to salvage three people from the last group, Myself (The lead designer), Camilla Jacobsen (The […]

Big Game Project

The Big Game Project has been kicked off and we are now in full development of our next game. The Big Game Project is the final course of the 2nd year here at Uppsala University GAME department. It entails the development and showcasing of a larger scale game project which is to be displayed and judged on this year’s Gotland Game Conference.
Similarly to our last game CoBots we are developing […]

Big Game Project

The Big Game Project has been kicked off and we are now in full development of our next game. The Big Game Project is the final course of the 2nd year here at Uppsala University GAME department. It entails the development and showcasing of a larger scale game project which is to be displayed and judged on this year’s Gotland Game Conference.
Similarly to our last game CoBots we are developing in Unity 3D […]

Terminal Post-Mortem

Post Mortem – Terminal Game
The Game can be downloaded HERE! (If it doesn’t work, you might need to download x86 vcredist which can be found HERE!)
I’ll start off by saying that I’m extremely satisfied with our final product – especially seeing as this is our first project ever.
Reflection:
I strongly believe that the group managed to consistently work towards a combined goal. The game had a healthy rate of progress throughout the entire project and the aesthetics, mechanics and dynamics […]

Terminal Post-Mortem

Post Mortem – Terminal Game
The Game can be downloaded HERE! (If it doesn’t work, you might need to download x86 vcredist which can be found HERE!)
I’ll start off by saying that I’m extremely satisfied with our final product – especially seeing as this is our first project ever.
Reflection:
I strongly believe that the group managed to consistently work towards a combined goal. The game had a healthy rate of progress throughout the entire project and the aesthetics, mechanics and dynamics […]

Pathing and smelling

Now the bears can move! Also the fishes look great but Jesper made those =) This post is a day late so, yesterday I made a smelling system! Which is basically making all the animals two trails of particles. One is faded and one is not. The one not faded is in a layer usually hidden but can be shown by (for now) pressing the x button. Works well, wind makes it look good and makes the mechanic quite realistic.
Today […]

Pathing and smelling

Now the bears can move! Also the fishes look great but Jesper made those =) This post is a day late so, yesterday I made a smelling system! Which is basically making all the animals two trails of particles. One is faded and one is not. The one not faded is in a layer usually hidden but can be shown by (for now) pressing the x button. Works well, wind makes it look good and makes the mechanic quite realistic.
Today […]

The Bear

Day three.
Today consisted of getting the modeling stuff in motion starting with the avatar; The Bear.
The plan was to create only arms (as the game is supposed to be in first person) but after talking things through it was decided that we are going to use the whole body as I will model it anyway.
And on it went.
After several hours of trying to slim a previously made (but slightly to fat) bear model, I realized that the model would need […]

The Bear

Day three.
Today consisted of getting the modeling stuff in motion starting with the avatar; The Bear.
The plan was to create only arms (as the game is supposed to be in first person) but after talking things through it was decided that we are going to use the whole body as I will model it anyway.
And on it went.
After several hours of trying to slim a previously made (but slightly to fat) bear model, I realized that the model would need […]

Tileable texture work

The past days I’ve been working on textures for a level in Mechropolis. It has been a bit of trial and error for me, as the first iterations was way too realistic. We decided early on to not bake textures from high poly 3D models as it would take too much time, so I went 2D at once. But default when I made a stone texture, I tried to make it look as realistic as possible, all while forgetting that it […]

Tileable texture work

The past days I’ve been working on textures for a level in Mechropolis. It has been a bit of trial and error for me, as the first iterations was way too realistic. We decided early on to not bake textures from high poly 3D models as it would take too much time, so I went 2D at once. But default when I made a stone texture, I tried to make it look as realistic as possible, all while forgetting that it […]

Day 3

Today my main focus has been Pathfinding, and I’ve discovered that the A* algorithm might be suitable for our needs.
When I decided to run the code that had already been implemented, I rapidly noticed that the camera controls I created yesterday weren’t working, and I spent about half an hour debugging them to no avail,and when I was trying to debug it using the Debug.Log() function native to Unity it suddenly started working flawlessly again. I have no idea what […]