WEEK #6 – BIG GAME PROJECT – BETA WEEK!

Hey guys!
I am sorry for not writing last week, I have been so busy and I kind of pushed it away and forgot about it. So this weekend I will write two blog posts, one for last weeks work, and one for this week. Lets start with last week!
So what have I done the past week? I have mostly been doing all-around work. Basically everything was implemented art wise. Mostly the UI needed rework, and I worked with making some […]

Pre GGC!

Pre GGC
This week has been the last week of production for the team and also the last week before the Swedish Game Awards turning deadline, which was yesterday Friday, and before Gotland Game Conference which is today Saturday. Depending on how the game is received at GGC we might continue to work on it in the future, which is exciting.
Yesterday was an interesting and stressful day. The hours just disappeared. The SGA turn in went well, no problems with submitting […]

BGP: Seventh (and last) post

Last (obligatory) post for this project:
This week we just tried to make things work and avoid losing work in scary merges added some final touches like a little particle effect for health pickups, explanatory prompts, extra posters over the town and things like that, mostly using already finished assets so there’s not a lot of new things to show.

(Yes, the face is weird. Looking forward to that summer Life Drawing-course!)

Spark: Big Game Project Post #7

This week has gone primarily towards playtesting the game for the upcoming Gotland Game Conference. We felt we had nailed down everythign essential to the experience and my job was to experiment with different settings including how much health and stamina the player has, how far they can roll and how high they can jump, etc.
The game is meant to be quite difficult but fair, and to reward players for being patient with their strikes and making good use of […]

Symbiosis DevDiary #7

Beta
The first half of this week went into having a respectable build to show at the beta play testing. Graphic and code wise everything went as we wanted, mostly. When the time came to actually make the build, we realised it took much longer time than expected. The first one took roughly four hours, which resulted in the beta being played directly from Unity. It went surprisingly well though, despise some bugs and lack of tutorial. We received useful and […]

Sam & Nicole part 7

A little late. But here comes the trailer! One of the things I worked on last week. I put it together in adobe premiere CC while our producer Tova Svensson made the pictures. This week is the week before GGC and I’ve mostly just helped to put code together. Next week I’ll make a post about GGC at it will be my final post. Thanks!

BGP Week 8: We’re there!

The final week is almost over! The BETA was on Wednesday and it went very well, if I may say so myself! We had a beginning and an end, a bunch of different playable events and friends that the players could ask out. Our playtesters seemed to like it! They had some critique, of course, but it was mostly things we were already aware of.
This week I’ve done a little bit of everything again, since everything that has to be […]

Two days before GGC – Where are we at right now?

So we’ve been working on this new game for a bit more than a week now. A lot of things have changed in the game since we started working on it. We’ve managed to add a checkpoint system, a few different monsters with different mechanics, a smooth fighting system with two different attack styles, healthpickups, animations and a lot more! For the most part, I’ve been doing things like our different systems and not so much work on the balancing […]

Synapse, Spark and GGC

GGC is closing in and I haven’t done a blog-post since the start of this project. Since then a lot of things have changed.
Synapse our first concept failed as an idea which resulted in us pivoting to the concept that is now called Spark. Spark is a dark themed platformer which is offering a challanging combat system against different monsters you meet across the map.
Today was an interesting day to say the least. They day started out with me working […]

Big Game Project – Last Week

We’re on the last week of production but I think the game is in an okay state to showcase. I am implementing more sound effects and fixing bugs. Today I’ve fixed the building mode in which the player could place a new building anywhere, not considering other colliders. The actual bug was not that colliders weren’t checked, that was more a quick fix left from earlier to make sure that buildings could be built despite other problems with the collision […]

Rigging and animating!

Hello!
The only other times I have done any rigging and animating was in 3DS Max and Motionbuidler. However, that was using CAT rigs, which are essentially pre-rigged skeletons that are simply applied onto a mesh. These rigs are mainly for humans and animals, so in this case it would not work, since the mesh was of a mushroom that would close and open when the player stand on it.

With 49 bones in total, the segments of the shroom would close together, […]

Big Game Project Week Eight

The last week of production is upon us, this weekend Gotland Game Conferance finally happens and the game will be displayed on the show floor.
Before I talk about this week I must mention what I forgot to write about last week.
The air animations for Hoppy and Sticky has been changed so that they more closely resemble slimes in their movement.


I had to work around the fact that I did not rig them to actually be able to do […]