Week 3 of Spelutveckling, introduktion. Mapdesign

This week I have mainly worked on the game design document, but I also created this first draft of the map layout.
In this layout there are four types of squares, the white squares being the space that the player and NPCs can navigate, the blue squares being the spawn points of the enemy NPCs, green squares being impassable and the red square being the location of the life tree that the player has to protect.
Lets analyze the map from […]

Vegetables n stuff

Making the top down game Mole Munch, one of the most important objects are vegetables for the mole to eat.
Before deciding to deviate from the concept document on what vegetables to use I began, among other sprites, to draw the highest scoring vegetable. At this point going by the concept document it was a cauliflower. It was limited to 64×64 pixels to have the correct size in the game. It worked well in the sense that a cauliflower is distinct when viewed strait from […]

The 4th Week of Game Development! Magic Seeds!

Hello!
This is the first official blog post in Holms Corner, and the first post about my work in our current game development project. However, this is actually the 4th week in development.
It might seem a bit odd to start blogging about something that’s already quite a bit into development, but it doesn’t really matter, since the first three weeks were filled with mostly design discussions, concepting and scheduling. Nothing really worth talking about. However, now that the deadlines are closing […]

First reflection of my work

The first month of working on our project is running to an end. It seems very clear to me that we are getting closer and closer to a finished product by the day. Never would I have imagined getting this far in just a month, but thanks to everyone’s hard work we are not far off from our goal of a finished prototype.
While the programmers are working on getting the AI to work properly, us artists are dealing with animations, […]

Day of the Piñata Week 4

A new year, a ned course, a new project.

Game development is our new course and we are developing a game, from concept to finished product over a ten weeks time. We are in our fourth week in developing “the Day of the Piñata”. The concept for the game is to play a Piñata who got possessed by a vengeful spirit on the day of the dead in mexico. The Piñata want revenge for all of the poor piñatas who get […]

Game development & design document

For the past three weeks, we have been working on a game as a part of our course in Game Development. The concept of the game was chosen from other groups ideas from the previous course.
My group chose the concept for Day of the Piñata – a side-scrolling action game where the player takes control of a possessed piñata during the Day of the Dead festival, and must collect candy and smash decoration to win.
 

 

With a deadline of tomorrow midday, […]

Artifact post #1

Creating an animation for “Enemy 1”
The artifact I’ve been working on during this past week has been the animation for “Enemy 1”.
The animation I’ve made is going to be used for our the first enemy out of two in our game project.It will represent our enemy moving around the level and towards the player.

Enemy 1 version 1

The animation takes it’s inspiration from snakes, moving their tail back and forth, as well as an eel […]

Ambient Pressure Screens Background

I spent a 40 minutes an evening looking up ways to create an underwater picture, before settling on a simple method only utilizing six PhotoShop tools.
A blue and black gradient is the biggest part of the background.
I then used white and black to render clouds – after that, I used the filter gallery to turn a plastic wrap filter (settings being Highlight Stregth 12, Detail 9, Smoothness 7) on, followed by adding linear dodge to make it blend in with the background. Free Transform […]

Game dev week#3; Magical prototypes and design documents (Team 13)

Hi!
I am doing a new course; introduction to game development. The idea is to band together with the five other people one worked with during the Introduction to game design course, pick a game concept created by another group during that course, and then create the game over ten weeks.
I have been chosen as game designer for my group, so I have been doing a lot of design documentation ever since the start of the project, three weeks ago. We […]

Dragon Song Blogpost 1

Concept Art
Dragon Song is a rhythmic game where you play as the only singing dragon. His world has been invaded by crystal entities and fire can not stop them. My main role in this project is to create art assets for the game. Right now my focus is to create a background for our first level.
The inspiration for this background comes mainly from our mood board.
The mood board consisted mainly of three landscape pictures. One with mountains, green islands and […]

Environment Art: Hedge

Mole Munch Dev log 1
Mole munch är ett spel där du spelar som en mullvad. Du ska undvika fienden och samla in grönsakerna. Du kan gräva dig under marken och på så sätt röra dig snabbare men ifall fienden kommer på dina tunnlar så fylls dem med vatten. Detta gör att spelet kräver strategiskt tänkande i olika situationer. Vi siktar mot ett arkadiskt spel där du känner att du får ett utmanande gameplay som är enkelt att ta till sig. […]

Game development weekly blog post nr1.

Time for start my weekly blog post about our game we are making.
We like the story with the whole game and also the visual of it. But as artist it was kinda hard to redesign the characters so what we did was changing the game visually. By doing this it was easier for us all to stand behind the game and say ”this is our game” since we came up with the design of the characters and environment and not […]