Creating the sounds of crystalline entities dying

Ever since the start of this project we were talking about a death sound effect for our enemies. However, as the original design used player attack FX as additions to the soundtrack it wasn’t feasible to have the enemies make any sounds when hit. Because of the recent redesign into a more traditional shooter however, the time was now ripe for some crystal shattering FX.
To imagine how sentient, murderous crystalline invaders hit by a burst of sonic waves and shattering […]

The Last Signal – Astronaut “Animation” & More

Sammanfattning
Jag jobbar på spelkonceptet The Last Signal och är nu inne på den åttonde veckan av projektet. Den här veckan har jag fokuserat på enkla animationer för astronauten då vi fick kritik för att den var alldeles för statisk och att en animation/hållningsförändring skulle göra astronauten mer levande.
Hur har arbetet gått?
Jag tycker att arbetet har gått sådär, inte lika bra som jag hade väntat mig. Jag är hyfsat nöjd med mina resultat hitintills men jag fastnade mycket i tankegångar kring […]

Artifact 6

Artifact 6

So our game project is coming to an end and most of the graphical part is finished for our final version. Even though it feels like we could have done so much more if we would have the time, I feel happy and very proud about of own and first made game for the game designer education.

So this week I am going to write about my work on the menu screen. For the beta I did a menu […]

Space Shooter Project Blog: Post #6

So, I’m back again. This time I had been tasked to animate our cryopod. With very little knowledge of animation, I had to ask a fellow team member who was in charge of most of our animation for advice on the subject. Below is an image of the cryopod as it was before we started working on it.

The animation I was requested to make was a kind of ”frosty smoke” effect that would help identify it as a cryopod. […]

Ambient Pressure – Last Blog

As we lack a lot of work to do, for us who aren’t programmers, I have been set to work on my project raport. As such, I have little to speak about in the manner of work I have done, as I have returned to look through my last raport for how we are supposed to write it, and I have started setting up for it. As well as looking through our documentation and my blog for what to write […]

Magic Writer – Week 6, Final Production Week

The time is finally here, this will be the last production post I will be making on our groups game “Magic Writer”, because as of next week our game will be completely done. It has been 10 long weeks of production, it has been lots of fun and we all have learned a great deal out of it. But as with all things here in life, it must come to an end. So, without further ado, lets talk about how […]

week 9, Game Design

This week was a mixed week. I have been sick on and off for two weeks now and tried to get as much work done as possible. I did not work on any sounds this week and went back to helping out with the art. I am making the starting screen and menu screen this week. I thought of some different designs but decided to go with a wooden board hanging from two ropes. The options are gonna turn up […]

Game Development – Introduction: Week 8

With soon 10 weeks since the start of the project we’re now entering the final phase. For me that has meant a considerable amount of stress, with other courses taking up a large portion of my time but also time to go back and do some more low-key work redesigning some assets so this week I will be speaking about the seeds and the seed inventory-part of the GUI.
When I first drew the seeds, it was the night before the GDD-hand […]

Game Production: Feature 6

This week I have been working on the end screen, it is the screen you get when you lose the game, and since this is a “no victory” game, you will see this screen a lot. Therefore I really wanted it to look nice. In the end of this game you will lose your “Life tree” so I wanted that to be represented in the Image, It is shown in the middle as a stump. It has a shaft of […]

The Fancy Mansion Heist: Final Animations

This’ll be the last blog post I write about the game my team and I are currently working on, called the Fancy Mansion Heist. By this point I’ve explained what the game is about several times, but let us do a quick recap: You play as a burglar breaking into the luxurious mansion of Mr. Otto von Fancy. Your objective? To steal as many valuables and as much cash as you can without getting caught by Otto, who is wandering […]

”In a [alien tongue] ravaged by [plant tables] our only solace is [different colored tiles]”

Okay so for this week I finished up Alien02 by giving it a tongue.

The tongue comes in two parts: the body and the head. The body is supposed to be stretched out while the head will just look menacing as it is extruded towards the player. There are barely any details on either the head or the body of the tongue simply because they need to be so small that details really does not fit on them. […]

Space Shooter Project. Blog 6. Level Logistics

So for this blogpost I am going to go through some logistical solutions regarding our level design. We have so far had a few problems in structuring our level. This is mainly due to the fact that we lack a proper tilemap. Hence we are placing interactive objects through hard coding. This makes moving objects around and testing different level structures very tedious. In addition to this we have certain graphical aspects of our level which needs to correspond with […]