Busy, busy, BUSY!

The Team Daemonocle production ship is currently firing on all cylinders! (minus this gloriously sunny first of May on the island). With the first of May coming around so soon we’ve been putting some hard working hours to get ready for the SGA (Swedish Game Awards) and the GGC (Gotland Game Conference) deadlines.
The programmers, Alex and Leevi, and our lead design, David, have been swatting those bugs in ‘Unity’ and keeping the DynaMine cart running as smooth as possible… There’s a […]

Sound of Life Blog #1

Hello and welcome to one of my first blog post for the project called Sound of Life. My name is Kadar Ali and I am a second-year student studying Game Design in Graphics in Uppsala University (Campus Gotland). I will be posting six blogs (possibly more) throughout the project and I hope that you guys will enjoy, or at least find something interesting.
So what is Sound of Life?
Sound of life is a first-person game, where you play as a rescue […]

Big Game Project Post 2

There has been some time since my last post, this post will recap everything I’ve done since. I would recommend that you read my last post if you haven’t, considering that i will be referring to it.
The first priority was to complete the turnarounds for all the remaining player characters. A Rat Betwixt is supposed to have 4 playable characters all from different made up religions and cultures. First we have the Dyrkare the character featured in the last post. […]

Neon Skies

Week 4-5
 
Hello! My name is Erik Levin and I am in the second year of the Game Design, Graphics, program at Uppsala University, Campus Gotland.
Im working on a game called Neon Skies.
 
In my last entry i ended it with that was going to start with the animations. This took longer than i thought due to the shear amount of different animations that was needed so i decided to compile two weeks of work into one entry this time.
 

Above you can […]

Colors, models and main menu

This week I started working on several items, mostly the main menu and UI. I also helped with graphics for upcoming presentations and the website. I also started modelling some of the models we need for the game such acs bridges and landing pods.
Beside this I also continued to work on the level and the content in it, fixing most of the colliders in the level, optimizing some of the nature and textures and adding and upgrading some of the […]

Bgp update #2 need to make more off these.

There hasn’t been much development since the last post. we did have a alpha test for some teachers and got pretty good feedback, it was mostly stuff we already knew were problems but that we have had a hard time fixing.
As for my own work i learned and made some partical effects for the cars, it was pretty fun i’ll se if i can make more and fit them in to the game at some point.
if think we got the […]

Week 4 and 5, Security systems online

Hello again!
Due to sickness and a full schedual outside of the production phase i´ve decided to incorperate these two weeks with each other.
With the level boxed out and the core mechanics in place we needed to create some conflict. So a threat is added in the form of a security system.
When trying to come up with a design for the security system there were three features that were important for the main function of the system.
A camera to detect the […]

Critter Flux: The Story So Far…

Last year around this time I was working on Zombie Crawler with the Molamola team in preparation for Gotland Game Conference. This year, I’m with a new group of five students and together we’re developing a game for android devices called Critter Flux. It’s all very exciting and rewarding work; Not to mention completely and utterly terriying, the weeks are flying by and we’re closing in little by little on the dreaded deadline…
Once again I am in the role of […]

Neon Skies – Week 5

This week has been consumed by revisiting the old cliff objects to make them look better. Some of the old cliffs didn’t have a good normal map and most assets in the game do not use normal maps either. As such, I went back and started retopologizing (lowering the amount of triangles in the object) the object, but now I am more skilled at capturing details and now, we don’t use any normal maps on it to capture details (everything […]

Week 5 – Big Game Project – A helpful hand

This week started out with the team having to go to several meetings at school, going through our game and graphical art.  So, we lost a few hours and didn’t really get to work until Tuesday. From Tuesday and onward I worked with the game’s placeholders, fixing faulty assets that were the wrong size/didn’t look good and creating new placeholders from the Asset list. During that whole time, I also ran around helping everyone with technical and graphical issues.
As I […]

Part 2: Fantastic Brushes and where to find them

Brushes. You are going to need them.
I have gathered some the best free Zbrush brushes there are. if you are an artist reading this, wanting to get into digital sculpting, then you should have these.
Most important – Aj brushes and Orb’s brushes.
For fun- Michael Dunnam XMD brushes.

About the brushes
Aj brushes are amazing for stylised realism and stylised work. I use these brushes everytime I sculpt environment assets. They can be found here: Link
Then there are the Orb brushes, from legendary Michael Vicente, […]

BGP – Day 24

Animation
Ending the 4th week I spent the day with starting the final work on the animations, we had some troubles adding a bone to the characters rig and then merging that with the current Motionbuilder file. So instead of delaying my work any further I chose to start over, importing the character and all the takes. I also cleaned the last more ”Cinematic” motion capture data we recorded. So now they are all in Motionbuilder.
Another problem managed to occur, where […]