Something over the horizon

Why, hi there!
Gotland Game Conference 2017 is just around the corner and you can feel it; almost taste it. This week, overall polish has been on the menu. One larger change in the level is the outlook of the second half of one of the areas. All areas in the game have different looks and this specific area is school-themed. Like the other parts of the game, it has been modeled and remodeled again and again. To be frank, I […]

Eyes Align – Devlog 1

When making a futuristic game about space, you can’t just have aliens, fancy weapons and spaceships, but you also need cool sound effects to help your high-tech world come to life. And for this devlog I’m going to show how simple it is to design a laser blast from a space gun using a synthesizer.
The laser blast effect I made for our game Eyes Align, I used Native Instruments’ VST plug in FM8 as it handles frequency modulation very […]

Fast Gear blog 5

Jag har lyckats fixa positioneringen av alla bilar. Vi valde att införskaffa en asset som hjälpte oss med problemet. Vi valde att göra detta eftersom att tiden inför GGC är knapp och vi kände att vi inte kunde lägga ner mer tid på detta problem.Detta underlättade arbetet med positioneringen. Denna asset fungerade på exakt samma sätt som vi gjort tidigare men använder ett annat sätt att räkna ut vilken bil som är närmast nästa checkpoint. Problemet med denna asset var […]

Fast Gear blog 4.

Det är fortfarande problem med positionering men i syfte av att ha lite mer varierande innehåll så ska jag inte gå inte på exakt samma problem igen denna gång. Jag tänker detta blogginlägg istället nämna problemen vi haft med att spelarbilen automatisk accelererar framåt. Efter ha speltestat under veckan har vi konstaterat att spelarbilen accelererar framåt automatisk utan att reagera på input från spelaren.
Detta påverkade hela spelupplevelsen för spelaren och var ett prioriterat problem krävde omedelbar lösning. Detta påverkade även […]

Refracted Fate: Tools in Color

While I got everything into a confused mess as several windows closed or disappeared yesterday, I managed to find where you reset the hud in 3D Coat.
And as such, the tools are finished, in full color with metal and rubber materials.



I’ll update again tomorrow about some thoughts on the project as a whole and the day after with how it went during GGC.

Week 7-8 : The final touches

This is polish week and almost all of what we have logged as artifacts is now within the game itself. What this boils down to is that at the moment no new systems are added, but  tweaked, updated or made to shine just a bit more (sometimes literally).
What then could there be to discuss? Quite a bit, as those tweaks tend to be what takes a game from being acceptable to being either great or awful.
For instance this week we […]

BGP Bloggpost 5

Once I was done with the rigging and the skinning of the boss model, I could finally start with the animations for the boss and player character. Since I made our player character in a previous course, 3DIII, I did not have to model, skin or rig that character, this was already done. I also took the course “Motion Capture” before BGP, in which we got to do animation takes. Since this was a very good opportunity for us to […]

BGP Bloggpost 4

The next thing on my agenda was the last thing needed before I could start animating, the skinning of the boss model. Skinning is the process of how much of the mesh moves with the bones you have set in the rigging, so the movement of the character do not break the model. This was important for us to get good since we have a big focus on the animations of the game. Our goal is to make really good […]

Digital Keypad

Hola!
We stated at the beginning of the project that we needed a keypad for one of the puzzles in the game. The player will have to find a code and use that on the keypad. So my first instinct was that this would have to be a rather interesting keypad and some what a little more high poly.
I started my research by googling and using pinterest to find some inspiration. I found this keypad that used a glass display with […]

It’s Unreal.. 2!

 
Here comes more pictures in-game and what changes we have made. At an early stage Thea our producer was building the levels and boxing out where things ought to be after the concept art I’ve made early on in the project. I’m very happy with the end result and how close it actually is to concept art and plans. Much of this is because of our talented lead art, planning every model and piece needed in each room! Here is the […]

Errant Signal, live at the GGC!

YouTube, as a maturing platform, has given us some amazing things! We have channels exploring games culture and social politics, cultural reflection by way of car reviews, games industry consumer rights, sexplanations – all kinds of wonderful, insightful and important content, and we are massive fans of the medium!
A couple of years back we had Super Bunnyhop over to lend his heavy research and journalistic style to the conference. This year […]

Garage background and dialogues.

So aside from our press-conference, we were also gonna have someplace else where the character interacts with the other drivers. As everyone is in their racing-gear it would make sense to set these interactions in the garage before and after the race. For this I looked at some different garages and chose one picture that I built my own upon.
The more difficult thing to decide with this was how stylized I should make it, and what colors I should use. […]