Week 9, Last sprint and GGC

Hello everyone!
The last sprint before GGC, aswell as GGC itself is now over!
It has been a blast to work on this project and i´ve learned a lot, especially about Unreal Engine 4.  It had its ups and downs, nothing is perfect.
However the project itself has inspired me to learn basic code so that i can prototype games.
To communicate ideas is an important part of the work, and with a prototype, that is one additional way of communication. I also wish […]

Week 8, Beta rush

Hello again!
 
We been working towards the Beta testing comming up this week.
Our goal was to polish the environment and tweak the lighting  to give the player visual cues to solving different puzzles in the game.
 
Due to the amount of content that we had to cut, we needed to rethink our design of the game and therefor extend the amount of gameplay to the content we had available.The cut content have really changed the design of the game in terms of […]

Welcome to our ”new” project

Hello and welcome to the ”new” project that im working on.
In the timeframe of 10 weeks we, as a small team, are developing a Puzzle platform horror game called Refracted fate.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RefractedFateGame/
We are at this moment far into the production period, but i wanted to share with you the development process and highlight from both my own, and my groups work.
Im working on this project as both a previously lead designer (we get to that point later)
and 3D artist, so then […]

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 […]

Week 4 and 5, Security systems online

Hello again!
Due to sickness and a full schedual outside of the production phase i´ve decided to incorperate these two weeks with each other.
With the level boxed out and the core mechanics in place we needed to create some conflict. So a threat is added in the form of a security system.
When trying to come up with a design for the security system there were three features that were important for the main function of the system.
A camera to detect the […]

Week 3, Learning particle effects

Hello Everyone!
This week has been a slow week in terms of production.
As this is my first time working in Unreal Engine 4 i had to learn how the engine functions. Not only the engine, but also particle effects to use in our game.
When trying to learn how to use particle effects i decided to watch the videos on youtube that the Epic team, creators of Unreal engine 4, had shared on their youtube page.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXK2Xbd7D9w&list=PLZlv_N0_O1gYDLyB3LVfjYIcbBe8NqR8t
Unfortunally i spent the majority of the […]

Week 2, Establishing the art style

Hello again!
This week we´ve been establishing the art style of the game.
Previous week we translated the concept into actual design for the game, breaking down our intended aesthetic goals to fail and sucess states that can guide us when creating the tuning the mechanics.
The mechanics have a major impact on the art style and the environment.
As an example from our discussions:
When creating the mechanic of dimension shifting we were toying with different ideas for that concept. What could be a […]

Week 1, Design

Hello everyone!
 
We are just about to start production on our game. But firstly, we needed to break down the concept.
The game is a 3D puzzle adventure game with horror atmosphere where you’re able to switch dimensions to solve the challenges ahead.
The concept was too vague for us to start working on so I laid down the base design of the game this week.
The problem with the concept was that when we were discussing what kind of gameplay there would be, […]

Welcome to our new project

Hello and welcome to the new project that im working on.
In the timeframe of 10 weeks we, as a small team, are developing a Puzzle platform horror game called Refracted fate.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RefractedFateGame/
We are at this moment starting the production period, but i want to share with you the development process and highlight from both my own, and my groups work.
Im working on this project as both a 3D artists , so then you know what content to expect!
I will update the blog frequently […]

Week 8, The end(Screen)

Hello and goodbye!
This will be the last update for this project!
A lot of polishing has been done, but we have also tested our way through the game and everything surrounding it. Working with the navigation through the menu, tweaking and other small details that we think make our game, a better game!
While everything felt solid, we were still missing a proper function for highscore.
We were not happy with the current one. We did not only redo it because it was […]

Week 7, OMNOMNOM

This week i have finished the animation for our last enemy to the game.
I have made references to this enemy before in an earlier blogpost called ”Vecka 4, Show me your moves”, where i called it ”Gammelgäddan”. The name was just a placeholder for whatever horrible beast that we could come up with!
After a few ideas about giant octopuses, actual pike or maybe a shark, we came up with something. As this enemy is suppose to be a one hit knockout […]

Week 6, It is friendly, right?

This week has been hectic!
A lot has been done, but nothing new!
We had our core down at the Alpha, and we knew things had to be fixed and added.
But we also took alot of knowledge from other peoples presentations and the feedback that they got.
With alot of knowledge under our feet about color, about shapes and about symbolism we started working on our pirate-themed pick-ups and power-ups.
A cannonball just looks like a black ball, so we need to add something. […]