Project Blog 1

Let’s start this one back up again.
In the upcoming weeks this will be the place to find updates on my current work with the project currently known as Alien Station.
I will act as the Leading Artist on the project witch gives me responsibility for the over all look of the end product.

Concept
The concept for the game is that it will be a story driven sci-fi adventure about a human being dragged in to a mystery with conspiracy and strange characters […]

Please Behave and introduce yourselves!

To start of this series of posts, I will talk about my role in the project as well as what the project actually is.
During the coming weeks i will primarily take the role as lead programmer in the project Rune Mages which is a turn based strategy game that is played from a top-down perspective. You take control of a couple of Rune Mages that combine elemental runes to cast different spells such as fireballs, earth walls and water sprays. […]

BGP – Vecka 4

Denna vecka har grafikernas prioritet legat på att modellera. Då jag inte har läst kursen 3D-3 så har jag alltså inte lärt mig att animera. Vi delade därför upp uppgifterna som så att jag modellerade alla statiska objekt så som yxa, svärd, facklor, stenar och så vidare, medans vår andra grafiker har fokuserat på att modellera vår karaktär, boss och animera dessa.
Med hjälp av de städade Mocap animationerna jag tidigare gjort så underlättade detta arbetsbördan för vår andra grafiker då […]

BGP – Day 15

After Easter Work
This week it’s mostly about animations and the first step to get our captured motions into proper animations is to clean the motion capture data in the program we are using, called Motive. The cleaning involves watching the different tracking markers and see if any of them disappear. This can happen if they are getting occluded by a body part or if they are confused as being another marker. This is fixed by either re-labeling them to their actual […]

BGP – Vecka 3

Denna vecka har jag arbetat med att skapa en HUD och designval till vårt spel. Vi valde att ha stilen i spelet i 1500 talets England, och använda därför detta som utgångspunkt i alla grafiska element vi gör.
Efter att ha kollat på andras spel HUDs och jämfört, så valde vi att behålla vår HUD relativt simpel. Jag gjorde en HUD med kopparring, där karaktärens huvud är tänkt att vara i, som ett porträtt, med tre stycken bronsmätare till höger som […]

Keeping the distance

There has been a long weekend but I have implemented a distance check. This will also be the firing range later on. It was really simple. It is an new integer member of tank’s base class Agent. I call it distanceUnits. I just assign it the number two for now. When I search the path from the behavior tree, I also fill the tank’s path list. The path finding algorithm fills its own path list by adding the goal node and […]

BGP2017 – An Introduction

For the next six week I will be working on a game production project for the course Big Game Project.
The Project
The project I am working on is called Goblin Doctors. It is a co-op game for two players. The project tries to make a twist on the fantasy theme, with some humor and the setting.
The players play as goblins which have the role of doctors for an orc army. The goblins must co-operate to maneuver and operate the over-sized tools […]

Elias Engine with UE4

This is the first blog post of several during the time I will be working on the game project Amenti at Uppsala Universitet Campus Gotland.
The previous weeks I have been working on to incorporate the Elias Software in to our game. The Elias plugin works well with having dynamic transitions in between themes and being able to corroborate an event with a musical theme. It comes very handy to be able to trigger when and where the music is supposed to be […]

Part 1: I’m not a character artist

I have always found people annoying as they enter the stage saying ”I am not a speaker but…”. Of course you are a speaker, you are doing it right now in front of a crowd. There is this general idea that you have to excuse yourself because in your own eyes you’ve not yet achieved a level of excellence in that particular area.
This is where I am currently at. I am working on the project ”Rune Mages” as a 3D […]

BGP #4

So I have just tried making the camera and chose to walk away for a bit and start with a new task. Because we were 4 programmers it often lead to a person making small and not so very useful things to the alpha. So I became that person and started working on the HUD, which made me create a start screen and a pause menu. This had not been any art created to yet so it has to wait […]

BGP #3

First two days we established an organized KanBanFlow page and put each person on assignments. For each week we will have a meeting where we go through each person and see what they have done and can do better, thereafter set new assignments on those who do not have none. This system worked well and is making us do the work we need to. I started working on making the camera for the player, this assignment I went in with […]

BGP #2

We have just gotten green lighted and can start create our game. As a group we decided to sit down and discuss what we had to start with so it is well organized and we are all coordinated. I came up with the idea of using a tool named “KanBanFlow” which is a site where you can easily divide up assignments to people. You make an assignment for example “Art for the player”, and then set the person responsible for […]