Fast Gear – Week 7

In order to move the AI they have a force applied to their rigidbodies in the z-axis that pushes them forward. We use a property of the rigidbody called drag, which is how much air resistance the car will have when forces are applied to them. It is a scale from 0 to infinity where 0 is no resistance at all and infinity makes them unable to move. We are using drag to make the cars stick to the road […]

DynaMine

You are a thief rushing through a mine shaft, tossing and detonating dynamite sticks to fill up your cart with gold. Yet the night is short, hurry up and collect as much gold as possible before sunrise. Timing is crucial! If you detonate the dynamite too early, you fill your cart with worthless stones, but wait too long and you lose your earnings. Perfect timed explosions results in a “Gold Rush” state, which increases the score multiplier and the pace […]

Week 7, Highlights and thoughts

Hello again everyone!
Week 7 has been a a stressful blast.
Our main goal this week was to polish up our environment to a standard that we were happy with as we needed to provide  screenshots.
The work this week has been in form of different kind of in-game object that are usually refered to as props. However, today i want to dive more into the technical side of the creation.
To be able to fill the world with different assets, reusing parts is […]

BGP Fifth Post

We are drawing nearer to the deadline of this project, something that many times reveals whether or not one has over-scoped or stayed within realistic margins. As it turns out we have over-scoped to some degree. Something that is made apparent due to our need to cut a feature from our game, that being the pliers. This decision was pushed by the coders and then agreed upon by the rest of us. From a practical perspective the choice is a good […]

Fast Gear Blog 3

Denna vecka har arbetet med positioneringen av samtliga bilar i spelet under fortsatt utveckling. Till att börja med så blev alla checkpoints placerade runtom på banan och blivit inlagda i en lista för att på ett lättare sätt bestämma vilken ordning alla checkpoints skall passeras.  På detta sätt bestämmer jag att när bilarna korsat sista checkpointen i listan så har de åkt ett helt varv.  Med hjälp av denna kan jag kontrollera vilka bilar som har åkt flest varv och passerat flest […]

Hearing the Call

This is something that I have been working on in my spare time for a while now, and I think I am about ready to call it done. With this I mostly wanted to work on my colour skills and apply some of the ideas and techniques that I learnt while working on my sword and dagger that I made previously. (Finished pics of the dagger will be coming up in a near future)

What I wanted […]

BGP Fourth Post

After having tested our engines, Unity’s, IK system the results have turned out rather poorly. It would seem like there are a couple of reasons for why this is the case, most of which stem from the simple fact that Unity’s Built-in IK system is somewhat lacking. To explain the first one I will need to describe the basics of how to prepare a character in Unity for animation. As per the methods I have seen you can go about two […]

BGP Third post

An increasing amount of complications have arisen as the question of how we implement our animations into our game engine, unity, becomes more prominent. That is to say, the problem does not lie with the prospect of implementing all of the animations but rather  specific group of them. That group is the one that has our character, the goblin, interact with the tools in the game. Items such as the pliers, the stretcher and the axe are problematic due to […]

Part 3: Learn Modularity or die

My dream job at the moment, besides becoming a world famous drummer, is to become an Environment Artist at a cool game studio. Pursuing this goal I have actively studied job openings for the past 2 years. Learning about what different qualifications studios need out of their artists has become helpful for me. It has helped me pushing myself to learning more and understanding what it takes to make it in the industry. During Alumni Days 2016 I met

Behind the scenes

A peek behind the curtains on a Saturday; our 1st year students hard at work building their games for the GGC Show Floor. Only 15 days to go!






It might be weekend-work, but it’s not in vain; there are well over 300 people currently signed up to come and playtest! Make sure you have a ticket too. The Visitors Pass is the cheapest option (pay what you want) and is good […]

Behind the scenes

A peek behind the curtains on a Saturday; our 1st year students hard at work building their games for the GGC Show Floor. Only 15 days to go!






It might be weekend-work, but it’s not in vain; there are well over 300 people currently signed up to come and playtest! Make sure you have a ticket too. The Visitors Pass is the cheapest option (pay what you want) and is good […]

Fast Gear

Fast Gear is a story driven racing game where the racing affects the story and the story affects the racing. The art style and music is 80s themed. The game is made in unity, the 3d art is made in 3Ds max and the 2D art is made in photoshop.

Team
Fabian Thoma – Producer,
Tim Rojo – Programmer,
Daniel Qvarnemark – Art Lead,
Morgan Kringstad – Lead Design,
Simon Glans – Lead Programmer,
Jari Melgén – Artist,
Lucas Pålsson – Artist
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