Final rush

Good evening, dear readers.
This last week has been, well. It’s been stressful. Our code is a mess, the collision still doesn’t work, there’s no feedback when the Aquila takes damage, barely any special effects, like sparks from the damaged hull or fire from the thrusters, are implemented despite having existed for weeks. I don’t even know if our sound works yet. It’s a mess, and we’re supposed to be done at this point.
What affects me more personally is the fact […]

Inspirational strolls and an obstructing headache

Good evening
This week has been… inconsistent might be the best word for it. Every day has been either nothing at all or everything at once, with very little in between. This inconsistency has not been kind to my mental state and the stress buildup has led to the mildly put fierce headache I am suffering from today. It has rendered me entierly unable to work on the project for the day, as looking at a computer screen makes it even […]

Canopy, shining ever brilliant

Good evening, dear readers!
This week has been a rather strange one. Being the week leading up to the Beta deadline, it would make sense for it to be a crunch-week, no? And yet, this is the calmest week I have had in two months. Sure, there is still work to be done, but almost all remaining tasks are code-related. As the environmental artist, I can now count the tasks left in this entire project for me to do on one […]

Shinier stones

Another week gone by in what seems like the blink of an eye. It took a while, but I have now finally, blissfully, finished shading the set of stones needed. There is a small issue I have with the illustrating program I use where it turns transparent pixels into black pixels, which is a problem. Fortunately, one of my teammates uses the same program and knows how to fix it. She is going to show me how tomorrow, so that […]

Stone-cold

One more week gone by in what feels like the blink of an eye, and another week where I feel I have been underperforming. A week where my problems once more has been of a personal nature rather than professional, for the most part.
I have quite learned to loathe stones this week, let me tell you. All day, every day, have been shading stones, and I am still not done. It is infuriating, as well as terribly monotonous. But alas, […]

Sticks and stones. So many stones

So, it would appear I am stuck doing backgrounds again. Marvellous. This is, what, my fourth time doing this? Out of four game projects I have contributed to? It is not that I mind. I do not, really. I do like drawing backgrounds, plants in particular, and with this underground alien cave setting I get to play with a lot of interesting stone shapes, glowing crystals and bioluminescent plant life. No, I don’t mind making backgrounds. It just feels like I’ve […]