Blogpost II – Fancy Mansion

The ”stealable” items continues
New week, new challenges. I have continued developing and designing the items that the protagonist is going to steal. Not only have I made the design on the finished artefacts better and given then a more equal look to each other.
This week I have put down lots of hours on Mr Fancy’s old grandfather’s clock. Since we stuck with the original stealable items from the concept document, we have been able to save time that we […]

Feedback received! Redesigning the movement system. Week 5

Note: I forgot to mention last week what game concept I am working with and I deeply apologize for that! The game concept me and my team chose is The Last Signal. And without any further ado.
Welcome back for another week of game design with Morgan Nilsson!
Let’s jump straight into the action! This week we had a day dedicated to testing our games, and it was very fruitful. Tons of great feedback and ideas where brought up! Which is great […]

Space Shooter Development – Upper Floor Walls

New week, new blog post. Last Thursday I wrote about painting the walls in a basement level of a 2D topdown game, from a frankly bizarre perspective, as shown here

Confused by what’s going on in this picture? So were most people who have seen it, and, during this Monday’s playtesting, most people who played it were no more clear, even with the context of the rest of the level (floors, space to move in and so on).
So, that very […]

Objects and Tilesheets

This week I worked on our teams collidable objects, or furniture. I worked on designing and organizing them into a larger tilesheet. We in Team 4 wanted our levels in Fancy Mansion to feel cluttered so in order to achieve that feel we needed a lot of furniture/objects and decorative items. The planning process began by listing all the objects in a list and counting them. Once I knew that much I designated a preliminary sizes. Each size was counted […]

week 5, Space Shooter Project

This week is just as busy as any other! I think I have gotten a bit better at planning how much work I can take on, and how long it will take. I have to consider and plan carefully due to my other classes. Goal number one for this week, don´t die, -check! The second goal for this week is to finishing making two enemies and to animate them before the end of the sprint.
The style of our game is […]

Week 5 – Monster dying sprite

Hi again!
The last few days, I have been working on another sprite, and this time for when our monsters dies.
I didn’t really know how to tackle this sprite at the start and I more or less just tried working it out as I went on. We had talked in the group about visualizing it by letting the monster sink in to the ocean and disappear. So at least I had something to go on and when doing the sprite. One […]

Paladin Concept Art

I have been working on a new piece of concept art for our upcoming game for a while now. It is another take on my paladin that I created earlier. This piece has given me a lot of practice in things that I have never or very rarely done before, for instance a full horse rendering and environments. It is very clear how much I have learned since starting school, but it also shows where I need more practice.

2D2 Character design

Last week we got an assignment to create three different character designs for one single character. This was a fun and different assignment because up to this point when I have designed a character I have thought about what I wanted and then done that. But this assignment forced me to think a little further and create a few different alternatives in terms of style, probably what it will be like when I get out of school and start working.

When […]

Game development process week 5

Last week I talked about how I thought when I was creating the sprite for the ranged enemy and some images from the development process. This week I have been working on the sprite for the astronaut which is the main character for the game. At the beginning we used an image from the concept just to get a picture of how large everything would be in the game and to have something nicer than a black square for a […]

Game Development – Introduction: Week 4

Last week we handed in our Game Design Document and (since it ate 25 hours of my time last week, leaving little time for anything else) that’s what this post will be about (so you have been warned). Note that this blog post will not be the actual contents and nitpicks of the design document (since that’s what the document is for) but rather a description of the structure of our document. Hopefully you’ll find at least something valuable in […]

2D Game Project: State Flowchart

So another week is soon at its end and the game is coming along nicely. I sent it to a couple of friends to try it out and we also had a game testing session with the other groups from our class. Not only did we get a lot of feedback for our game we also had the opportunity to test the other projects. I personally is very impressed with the lot of them. Its really insane that we all […]

Blog 2 Group 4

Fancy mansion menu states
This week we felt the need to have some sort of win scenario before our game hits its alpha state since our pre alpha was basically just walking around and doing nothing. This week we implemented a way for your enemy to kill you. Otto (the enemy) will shoot you when he has detected you and is within a certain distance from you. He kills you with one shot, so you need to avoid or escape […]