Animation cycles

Hiiiiiii!
This week I am going to write about last weeks art assignment (as I imagine many Graphics minors are). We were supposed to create at least two animation cycles of the same character, and we were encouraged to pick a character from our shoot ‘em up. Surprisingly enough, I ended up animating my beloved pink Fish (!!!!). I decided to make a death animation, idle animation and a turn-around animation.
I started with the turn-around, because I figured it would be […]

Comment on Blog Post #1

Hey duder!
Good blog! Very descriptive. I like how you explain what you were going for when doing the animation of your character, it’s helpful to know – seeing how I have a hard time animating myself. One thing you could think about though is adding more pictures! I didn’t in my blog post either, and looking at other people’s blog posts makes it apparent that it’s more informative if you do!
It would be a more interesting blog post if you […]

Comment on Blog Post #2

Hey!
Good blog, dude. I really found it interesting to gain some insight, as a graphical student, into the programming process – and I really appreciate the detail you went into, without using too much programming-jargon that I wouldn’t likely understand! It helps me in understanding how I can make things easier for my own programmer in the future.
If I had to pick on something, though – it’s that I would like to see more ways in which us graphical students […]

How to use the Animation tools in Unity

This week we were a little short on manpower since one of the members on the team is on vacation. My tasks were more focused on importing and implementing done assets into unity as well as doing animations using the animator, instead of making assets as I usually do. Thank goodness for Scrum am I right?
So here’s a workflow instructional guide on how to import sprites into unity.
The Basics

Drag and drop all your sprite sheets into the Unity folder of […]

01-03-2018

This Monday we had our first playtest since the Alpha preview. This blog post will be about lessons I learned from the feedback my group got from that testing.
At first, some of the feedback we got was quite confusing, and some downright offended me as the programmer. People were writing that the attacks didn’t work and that enemies were invincible. And I knew that just wasn’t true! But why were so many people saying the same thing? The answer came […]

4th post – pressure before the Beta presentation

Beta presentation is coming up next week. By then we have to be finished with core features, movement, attacks, UI, and challenges. It is a tough week and we have felt quite a lot of pressure recently. Things does not always go as we want them to go. The harsh winter weather caused problems, because many people got sick, and so did some members in our team. We had some delays and it seems that we are running out of […]

Enemie Polish

Hello everyone. I have been working on and polishing the enemies in our game. In particular the Dragonfly, Spider, and the Wasp. First up was the Dragonfly. We wanted to clean the enemies as they play an essential role in our game and because what we had was mainly placeholder enemies so we could focus on more critical issues we had.
I modified the pattern to how it moved so it would be more erratic. More specifically I made so it […]

More than One Sprite

From struggling with one of the most difficult obstacles that I have encountered in programming so far,  I have now finally learned how to design a formation of enemies in my video game, that can also be called upon to attack our player. Very exciting indeed, and because of this, the main design and programming of one of our enemies, which is also the main attack called upon from one of our other enemies, is finally completed, and another Scrum-goal […]

One-page document

Hello, I am Hampus Bergström, the game designer for the team Wendigo that works on the game Umibōzu. For the last few weeks I have created and updated a one-page document for the team. The document contains explanations and images of every feature and asset in the main game mode of the game that is currently implemented in our development build or are soon to be implemented.
As we progressed further into development I noticed that not everyone could keep up […]

Redoing the animations before Beta…

It’s almost time for the next beta submission and everyone is barely wasting any time. Last time during the alpha presentation, few of the games were already way ahead of the others and not to mention as everyone in m group being totally new in this education without any prior experience, we were not one of them. However, the team effort was never less and thus at this beta point, we have a much better illustration of the game than […]

Blog 4

Starting Menu and GUI
Starting menus are very common elements for video games. They are so common that game designers would make these menus without justifying the necessity. In some cases, however, a traditional starting menu with different bottoms can be totally unnecessary. The menu will only break the illusion without providing any utility. Instead, a starting scene or a “safe zone” can well substitute the functionality of the game and help improve the immersion. The starting scene below made for […]

Ready, set, Scrum!

In order to keep track of our progress and make sure that we keep on schedule me and my group have been using an Agile development methodology called Scrum. The goal is to constantly work towards creating a minimum viable product, and iterating on that until the product has the features and quality desired. It is also characterized by working in small teams with short daily meetings in order to make sure that everyone knows what is going within the […]