Week 7

Hi, this post is a little bit late.
During week six a lot of small fixes was made, for example:

Made the sawblade more visible in the sawmill
added rope to the elevator, so no more floaty elevator
Tiled the cookie that casts the shadows in the jungle
Set up different cameras and lighting for the jungle and island

Also I made the trailer, which took up a lot of my time.

 

Breaking down art

One of the first steps I took when defining our art style was to try and break down art from different artist in order for me to come up with similarities and differences. I aim to include similarities and to fuse differences in a cohesive and non-fractured way. The goal as stated earlier is to properly represent the subject and this also includes having art that is immediately recognizable to people familiar with Finnish artists and animators. Different ways of […]

Flexible fish feelings!

Contrary to what my previous posts might’ve indicated, I don’t just go around thinking about design problems all the time when working on Slumber. I’m also the makeshift Unity guy, responsible for implementing stuff, animating, building levels and generally being the link between the artists and programmers.

So let’s talk about something NOT design related for a change, like fish animations! As the team’s makeshift Unity animator, it was my job to animate and implement the fish animations used in Slumber.
This was […]

Big Game: Week 7

Nearing the end, it’s just small stuff left to be done. I’ve been playing around a bit with particle effects, started working on UI and menu in-game as well as finishing some more decorative assets. Here’s a few examples of what I’ve been up to this week;

Butterfly that will fly around in the background, as well as on the path  where they will fly away if triggered.

A crosshair for the projectile, which is animated in-game.

Icon for life, which also is […]

That Final Week of our Project

And it’s officially okay to panic!! It’s been a busy week seven for team Molamola… so busy in fact, much to all of our dedicated followers great disappointment, our weekly blogpost was woefully neglected. We’ll do our best to make up for your loss, honored fans and followers, by presenting an even better zombie crawling experience by the end of this week. Along with all the other groups in our class, we had our game beta-tested and evaluated last […]

Kei game trailer

Here is the trailer as promised!

There are some things needing fixing but we plan to fix it before the actual presentation of it at GGC. Enjoy!

BGP week 6 – Animation updates

This week doesn’t have a lot of very visually interesting updates. Mostly I just spent it working on the animations – small fixes as usual, like an animation not playing as it should, or adjustments to the timing. I also made a fair few new ones, such as animations for a couple of different landings, and just generally updating the current ones to be more fluid and engaging.
Since at this point we have pretty much all the animations we need, […]

7. Uniqe Scenes

Förra veckan jobbade jag på att rita unika scener till spelet. Dessa scener kommer komma upp under de större eventen under spelet för att ge lite mer variation och känsla. Jag har ritat sju olika scener – två varianter av slut på spelet, Nicole sittandes ensam i fiket, när Sam kommer ut till till sina tre närmsta vänner och när Sam och Nicole kysser varandra för första gången.

Symbiosis DevDiary #6

Polish
The first week of polish has come to an end and even if it always feels like there is so much left to do, I believe we are in step with our goals. I have continued working with shaders and done some experiments in shader forge, even if it feels like most of it won’t make it into the game. Some of them just did not work out as planned, mainly because my lack of experience with the software.
Below is a […]

Target Doll

So the process of creating practice targets for our avatar continues. I am currently creating a target doll that will be used as a part of an in game tutorial in Tale.
The doll is supposed to resemble the enemies in the game. The enemies are little knights that roams around the world of tale. They are very short but a bit buff. The target doll is adapted to their length and width.

The textures i am using are fiber textures, wood […]

Big Game Project, Week 6.

I’ve been struggling with finding adequate sounds for a walk cycle. It seems most of the available ones that are free to use are recorded outside, with lots of background noise, understandably.
It’s been a problem for me so much that (despite my necessary emergency trip home to stockholm) I will have to record some own sounds in the week and throw them into the game as quickly as possible.
The last sound that I can think of that we need is […]

Synapse: Tying Things Up

As promised, here’s some of the 2D key-frame animation content I produced for my group’s old game, both finished and unfinished files. The work I did there ranged from concepting the game itself, writing documents, discussing the game’s design, implementing changes, and creating art assets.
Not much more to say for now, since all this has gone into the Archives of the Deceased Projects by now. So here’s a bunch of gifs, and the game’s logotype.