1-year milestone. Introduction.

Hello and welcome to my blog!
My name is Gleb and I recently finished my first year at Uppsala University in Bachelor Programme in Game Design. During this year I got to meet a lot of different people and experience a lot of things. The most important thing I realised was that I made the right choice by deciding to embrace my passion for games and wanting to create games for others.
So, what is the point of this blog? This blog […]

Presenting a Game

If there’s one thing I’ve learned during my two years of studying game development, it is that necessity is a harsh but highly efficient tutor. There is a hint of desperation in the struggle as a developer to meet each game-asset’s individual needs and requirements, under constant time pressure. Now, it may sound as if I’m not too happy about this process, but in fact, at risk of sounding like some sort of masochist, I love it! Necessity forces me […]

Allting har ett slut

I torsdags, den femtonde juni, var min sista dag på Cortopia Studios. Jag absolut älskade teamet och mitt jobb men livet händer och allting är inte menat att va. Så nu är jag ute på jakt efter ett jobb igen. Livet är så konstigt ibland, ena dagen har man en stabilitet och rutiner och dagen efter har en dörr stängts och en miljon andra dörrar öppnats. Jag är ännu en gång i en sån situation där jag frågar mig själv […]

Summertime 3D-fun The conclusion

After laying around on ice for a long while after the modeling was wrapped up a number of months ago I finally got back to it and gave it some well-needed UV:s and textures! The normal map took a couple of rebakes but I found a compromise between either too hard edges or having gradients in my normal map that took care of some annoying artifacts (which probably could have been avoided by paying closer attention to topology and especially […]

Delete all!

I detta blogginlägg tänkte jag skriva om hur spelet ligger till en veckan innan GGC och vilka förändringar som vi har gjort i designen. Vi har ändrat på craftingensystemet, grundtanken var att spelaren skulle kunna byta mellan olika ”recept” för att bygga olika proteser och dessa olika proteser behövdes sätt på rätt skada kroppsdel för att fungera. Eftersom det är så lite tid kvar och vi har fortfarande ingen vinstskärm eller tutorial nivå till GGC väljer vi att satsa på […]

Hit detection

Welcome back to Causality!
Elevator Pitch – “Causality is an action RPG game where you travel through a dungeon to challenge yourself against Monsters. We have a safe area for testing your abilities then a room with a bossfight where your skills are tested. Our target audience is people who likes to challenge their pattern recognition and reaction skills.”
 
This week i’m going to focus on how I worked and implemented the hit detection on the player’s weapon. The way we did […]

Scoreboard

Welcome back to Causality!
Elevator Pitch – “Causality is an action RPG game where you travel through a dungeon to challenge yourself against Monsters. We have a safe area for testing your abilities then a room with a bossfight where your skills are tested. Our target audience is people who likes to challenge their pattern recognition and reaction skills.”
 
This week i’m going to focus on how i implemented the scoreboard in our game. Our reasoning behind having a scoreboard in our […]

Lock-on camera

Welcome back to Causality!
Elevator Pitch – “Causality is an action RPG game where you travel through a dungeon to challenge yourself against Monsters. We have a safe area for testing your abilities then a room with a bossfight where your skills are tested. Our target audience is people who likes to challenge their pattern recognition and reaction skills.”
 
This time i’m going to focus on the lock on camera at the enemies. When working on the lock on camera I cooperated […]

Animations

Welcome back to Causality!
Elevator Pitch – “Causality is an action RPG game where you travel through a dungeon to challenge yourself against Monsters. We have a safe area for testing your abilities then a room with a bossfight where your skills are tested. Our target audience is people who likes to challenge their pattern recognition and reaction skills.”
 
This time i’m going to focus on how i did the animations in Causality. I started off by doing some motion capture for […]

Dimension swap

Welcome to Causality!
My name is Robin Berneby and I’m a lead Programmer for the team Yggdrasil working on the design concept Causality in Unity.
Causality is an Action RPG viewed from a third person’s perspective that is focused on adventuring and fighting inside a dungeon environment.
The player controls his character and is able to use a few basic attacks and also additional abilities and will face challenging monsters where you have to read and understand them to win. Causality take place […]

Post processing effects

Welcome back to Causality!
Elevator Pitch – “Causality is an action RPG game where you travel through a dungeon to challenge yourself against Monsters. We have a safe area for testing your abilities then a room with a bossfight where your skills are tested. Our target audience is people who likes to challenge their pattern recognition and reaction skills.”
 
This week i’m going to focus on the post processing effects on the dimension camera. Because we had two different cameras in our […]

Week six of Eyes Align: The final post

In this post I will shortly discuss the thumbnail for eyes align, as well as the title page.
TITLE PAGE: ”NOT TOO FLASHY BUT ALSO NOT BORING.” ”MAKE IT RETRO.” ”NO, MAKE IT IN THE SAME STYLE AS THE REST OF THE GAME.”
As the subheader not so subtly alludes to the ideas were plentiful and nothing was decided. I made three basic concepts for the title page which were then intended to be adjusted to siut the preferance of the group.
Number […]