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Introduction
Hello, my name is Linus Bjernhagen and I’m going my first year of Game Design and Programming at Uppsala University – Campus Gotland. The course I have now, Game Programming I, gives 5 points towards the project we have to do for this course if we make a blog about it with at least 5 posts.
We’re supposed to make a clone of a game from a list of 12 games. The game is to be programmed in C++ and SDL. It has […]

Start of my journey, 2D Computer Graphics, Week Uno~

This week I for the first time started to learn how to draw. Le gasp. We started by having some croquis lessons, and then got our first assignment! *Here is my reflections
This week I chose the concept “Clash of Heavens”. It seemed like a challenge since it had quite a vague character description. Only that the character should be tough, stubborn and a bit snarky. And that the character lives in a modern dark and gritty version of our time. […]

The progress of Naar

We have been proceeding with our game Naar and reaching to new places, things are going a bit slow but if we nail the mechanics and have them done before Christmas, then we can start working on making a playable demo and hopefully with an interesting narrative.
I have been writing Devblogs for Naar so I had to prioritize that, you can read more about them at our website: NaarTheGame.net.
However, I have been doing a lot of work with my […]

Texturing

This week I started working on a new and updated version of Tamarrion’s texture maps. I had to redo parts of them due to adjusting the model but we felt that we wanted to take the texturing to a new level and decided to redo them completely. What we want to achieve is higher quality textures that has a more hand painted look than I managed to achieve on the old ones. It is a challenge, trying to level up […]

Motion Capture and 3DII

So last week was the last week of the first two course of my second year here, which means this week two new courses started!
First off, we had Motion Capture, which was really cool! I kind of expected us to only do theoretical stuff and talk about the software we’re going to use, but our teacher Nataska had two students from the class dress up in black velcro suits and act out some fighting scenes! One of us also got […]

More Fun with Animations!

Finally, I have work to show again!

Oh it feels good to be back working in Unreal rather than grinding away at the report I’ve been doing for the last couple of  weeks. During the last two days i have been working on very simple AI behavior to use for enemies by this Friday. It’s coming along but it has had its issues.
I started by following the quick start guide from Unreal’s website, (found here: https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Engine/AI/BehaviorTrees/QuickStart/index.html) and for the last two days i have made […]

Working on Tammy's rig

I have been tweaking Tamarrion’s rig to get better results when animating the shoulder, as an extension of the work that I have done with the edge flow. I am still unsure about the best way to place the rig, but I am hoping that I am better on the mark this time around. On the left side I have moved the shoulder and arm bones to where the actual bones should be. The reason for them being where they […]

Finished character modeling & board game!

This week the first two courses of year two ended! I really feel like I’ve learned a lot, especially when it comes to 3D.
Here’s the final version of Quinn:

And some details:
    
Quite a big step from last week, I think! I have to say, I’m very pleased with the result. It’s a bit strange to think that a couple of months ago I could barely make a box in 3DsMax and now I can create […]

3D-I Character modeling and texturing

So it’s been a while since the last post. During that time we’ve been entering the world of character modeling and texturing, both very new to me. For our third assignment in the 3D-I-course we had to both work according to another classmate’s concept art and art direction as well as direct the person bringing our own concept art into 3D.
For my concept art I got this guy, named “Peanut”:

I discovered fairly quickly that some elements about this design, while […]

Scrap Pirates Pre-Alpha Prototype Release!

You can now download an early version of our game!
Head over to our homepage and get the latest version now!

We love feedback, it is very helpful and essential for future development of the game. If you’ve played our newest prototype, please feel free to leave us some feedback and tell us about any bugs you’ve encountered!
Hopefully some of you will playtest our game and let us stay in touch with you!
Thank you!

Scrap Pirates – Test Version is Live!

It’s finally time for the much anticipated release of the Scrap Pirates test version!
For those who don’t know, Scrap Pirates is a mainly co-op focused 2D platformer where you use a whole lot of magnetism to advance through the levels.
But fret not, there is a singleplayer mode as well for all those who don’t want to bother with people and stuff!
So get over to http://scrappirates.com/download/ and try it out! (and please do leave feedback while you’re at […]