First Animation

I am not unfamiliar with animation, in fact, I studied animation in highschool. While it might not have been as in depth as I wished it would have been, it has still given me an advantage. Consequently, I was tasked with tackling the animation of our project.
What I consider the most important aspect to keep in mind when animating a character, is to make them look alive. This becomes quite the challange, considering the top-down perspective that we’re using. […]

An update long overdue

So, long time no write but now I am back and hopefully will keep this up with at least a post a week.
Right now, or since the start of this semester really, we valiant members of group 10 have been working on Escape, a top down stealth game set in an office building during ca 1950. Our Min character is named Tommy and he has killed a dude and he wears a duster coat and a fedora. Not a trillby. […]

An update long overdue

So, long time no write but now I am back and hopefully will keep this up with at least a post a week.
Right now, or since the start of this semester really, we valiant members of group 10 have been working on Escape, a top down stealth game set in an office building during ca 1950. Our Min character is named Tommy and he has killed a dude and he wears a duster coat and a fedora. Not a trillby. […]

Tail of a Tailorman

The concept that we chose, aptly named ”Suit ‘Em Up”, is about a tiny tailor. He’s been tasked to fight off evil bugs before they munch up his favorite suit!
Given the concepts focus on tailoring and fabrics, our minds we’re instantly drawn towards early 1900′s. With this, an idea regarding the visual design was born in the mind of our dear lead artist; namely that of early Disney cartoons.

Researching this a bit narrowed our visual guidelines down to a few […]

Game development week 4, Design Document writing.

During the week i have been writing the design document for the game i am working on. In the start of the week the design document was containing around 800 words and a lot of unneeded material. During most of my monday i spent reading trough the Design document and commented on what was in need of cleaning and rephrasing. Throughout the rest of the week i have been reading others design document from earlier project to understand the structure […]

Watergun Alien

This week I have put focus on drawing sprites. As I have not really done top-down sprites before, I had to learn some new techniques. I googled around to find some reference images for top-down sprites and stumbled upon the classic title Alien Breed for the Amiga.
Alien Breed’s player sprites’ has served well as references but I felt like it would look weird  if the player character had the weapon straight in front of the face. I mean; who the […]

Game development week 4, Design Document writing.

During the week i have been writing the design document for the game i am working on. In the start of the week the design document was containing around 800 words and a lot of unneeded material. During most of my monday i spent reading trough the Design document and commented on what was in need of cleaning and rephrasing. Throughout the rest of the week i have been reading others design document from earlier project to understand the structure […]

Problem with perspective

What: This week I’ve been continuing working on the tiles for the walls and floors in our game. I have also been working on other elements in the game such as posters and some furniture.
Since our game will be a stealth game we have decided to have a top-down perspective. But in order to get more feeling to the setting we decided on this sort of fake-isometric perspective for the walls, this will allow us to put posters and stuff […]

Watergun Alien

This week I have put focus on drawing sprites. As I have not really done top-down sprites before, I had to learn some new techniques. I googled around to find some reference images for top-down sprites and stumbled upon the classic title Alien Breed for the Amiga.

Alien Breed’s player sprites’ has served well as references but I felt like it would look weird  if the player character had the weapon straight in front of the face. I mean; who the […]

Reflektion av veckans arbete

Den här veckan la jag det jag höll på med åt sidan därför jag blev ombedd att skapa en enemy till alpha. Det skulle vara en fisk som inte stack ut mycket och som skulle passa att dupliceras många gånger. Den skulle passa in i stora stim och kännas neutral. Den skulle inte ha så mycket karaktär eller några i ögon fallande aspekter. Jag fann inspiration från sardiner. Så jag började med att skissa fram något enkelt i photoshop, som […]

Heart of the Machine

When it comes to the design of the health meter for our game I drew many quick design I had on my mind. All just to see what I could come up with.
Overall the design stemmed from having a heart-shaped tank, filled with red goop, that was being surrounded by gears and other steampunk-esque props. So this is a couple of the sketches I made trying to find the one I would continue work on.
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The Death of a Main Character

This week I have been working on the sprite sheet depicting the death of our main character, having him going through the stages of joining the choir invisible as one mights say.
Starting with him in his regular sneaky pose that everybody in the team have grown to know and love and then having him suddenly jerking up, clutching his chest in confusion and pain before finally falling over and ruining the carpeting of the office or corridor where he […]