BGP Week One: Getting Started

Last week we started off with the big game project, and I’ll be back blogging about it. Were making an Arabic themed action adventure game, I won’t go into detail on what it’s about right now, but I’m sure I’ll write some about it later on.
The first week started off quite slowly, we hadn’t assembled the full group yet, and we were spend most of the time setting up the “office”, scrum documents and planning. We already had a bit of a head start, […]

Snow Day Mayhem

Apologies for the lack of updates lately, things have been very busy! Our last project ended and now it’s time for Theme Park instead. Unfortunately, we weren’t able to finish our space shooter, Green Warden, because of the lack of manpower. But this doesn’t mean the project was a failure! I think we learned a lot of things in the process that we will be able to use during Theme Park.
So! My Theme Park group consists of me and two other […]

BGP Week 1 – the adventure begins

So, here we are, finally. The last course of my studies at GAME, “Big Game Project”, or BGP for short; during which me and 4 other aspiring game designers, artists and programmers, spend 7 weeks to develop a “vertical slice” of a game that could eventually turn into a complete, sellable product.
One week has passed since our concept, currently called “Exploring Wind”, got greenlit, and we started producing. We decided early on that we wanted to *start off* by crunching, […]

GodFire Forge – And the Project continues!

GODFIRE FORGETheme Park 2015
The second week of game development is over and I have been pretty busy drawing weapons and working on the game menu. In GodFire Forge the team decided on having three different types of weapons, axes, swords and spears. 
The “Rock, Paper, Scissors” mechanicWe were thinking of giving the enemies in our game, the giants, the same type of weapons as the player. The tactic for the player would be like the game “rock paper scissors”. the axe […]

Tamarrion, post 2: Modeling and sculpting

This week I’ve been working on the model for our game’s boss, whose design process I documented in my previous post.

Earlier this week I worked on putting together a base mesh for our boss. Generally, basic low resolution models are created of your game characters early during development for use as a base for misc. animation and modeling work. Often a rig is created using this base mesh so that work on animations can be started before the model […]

Big Game: Week 1

Hello. This was the first proper week of the Big Game course. I managed to get into Project Steel as a 3D artist / pseudo level designer. Project steel is going to be a racing game and act as a spiritual successor to the F-Zero games.
This week I have worked on a concept for one of the racing pods which will be in the game. I spent time researching on different techniques which can be used when creating a 3D […]

BGP#1 – A Good Start

Greetings!
Been some time since I posted something and I think it is now time to get this going as a weekly thing again.
Big Game Project is a course that started two weeks ago and has been going strong. I am in a team of seven (three coders, one designer and three artists) and I have the role of environment artist. My job is to create all the assets for the environment and give the game the right feel with the use of […]

Z-Brush

Yesterday I continued on the mesh of the main character in 3DS Max, at the end of the day I had reached the point that I was ready to take it into z-brush and have a go at it. I had blocked in all the armour pieces but decided to only export the body itself, leaving the armour for modeling separately at a later point so they are not in the way.
I managed to get far enough to export the […]

Base Mesh

As I finished the turnaround for our main character last week and did a quick colouring during the weekend it was time to start working on the base mesh. It was originally supposed to be due today, but I rearranged the schedule slightly to accommodate for the increased time spent on the concept art. I did manage to get quite far though, and might get it done tomorrow if everything goes well. Today was quite laid back and the offices […]

Week 1

The first week of production has now come to an end. Some of us met up for a voluntary day of casual work in the office, because of it being a holiday it was very relaxed and we had a few visitors come by to hang out and look at what we are doing.
Although it could still do with some additional cleaning I finished the turnaround of the main character today. Mostly I have just cleaned up the lines a […]

Tamarrion, post 1: Boss Designing

For the Big Game course, I’m on the team working on the game Tamarrion, which we’ll be displaying at GGC in late May. I will be posting at least one blog post per week showing what I’ve personally been working on for this project.

We’re aiming towards having one boss available at the GGC demo. Originally, Camilla and Måns had planned to model this boss for their 3DIII group assignment, but they were displeased with their final result and wanted […]

3DIII – Linkle

I haven’t been required to make any blog posts for classes lately, but I thought I’d make a post for the character I modeled and animated for the 3DIII course, together with Anita Stenholm.

This character is based on a concept art made for a potential female version of the player character Link from The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Warriors.
We chose the design above to adapt, and I drew a turnaround with an adjusted design, as well as […]