Big Game Project: Week Five

Apologies for the very late submission! Things have been coming to a head with work and I frankly forgot about posting this report. Without further delay I will continue on with my painfully brief report of one of the project’s last weeks.
This week has been a lot about trial and error regarding the Unity engine when implementing terrain into the game. My inexperience showed as I believed it was a simple matter of creating terrain by modelling through 3DS Max […]

Big Game Project – Week 7 & 8

So The course is over and this post is a bit late, due to various reasons, so i’m going to go through what happened and what I did during the last two weeks before GGC. We decided to set up level streaming to make run steady over 30 fps. and work on less powerful computers. … Continue reading Big Game Project – Week 7 & 8

Scrap Pirates – GGC-results, kind of

So, GGC is over. No prize, but Scrap Pirates were nominated over half of the categorize we could be nominated for. Nominated meaning we were in the top five.
Even if we did not win anything we are still content with the conference and we think we will continue working on it again after the summer and a well needed vacation.
Have a good summer, everyone!

Big Game Project #3 – Game feature challenge focus

When creating features for a game, one should always consider the aesthetic goal of the game. However sometimes a features need to be deliberately designed so that they do not pose a challenge to the player. Some features just need to be easy to use.
Me and a group of six other people presented a game at the Gotland Game Conference 2015, Tamarrion, a hardcore action role playing game. During development of this game we designed features such as our player skill/spell system. This […]

My latest concept art

Halloween Surprise

I am trying out a new theme where trolls meet the modern society. Kind of a modern homage to John Bauer.

3D Challenge – Day 3

Today I have learned about modifiers and segments.
A modifier can be added to a primitive to change its appearance. However, the primitive’s original appearance will be preserved. In this example i used a ”Bend” modifier to bend a cylinder primitive:

I also learned about segments in primitives. By changing the number of segments, the appearance can be change as well. More segments looks smoother while less segments looks edgy. So i added a lot more height segments to the cylinder to […]

3D Challenge – Day 3

Today I have learned about modifiers and segments.
A modifier can be added to a primitive to change its appearance. However, the primitive’s original appearance will be preserved. In this example i used a “Bend” modifier to bend a cylinder primitive:

I also learned about segments in primitives. By changing the number of segments, the appearance can be change as well. More segments looks smoother while less segments looks edgy. So i added a lot more height segments to the cylinder to […]

Big Game Project #2 – Using game development engines vs coding from scratch

During our game project we used the Unity game development engine and it was a good choice of engine because of it having many built in features. If you are unfamiliar with Unity, it has an asset store where game developers can upload assets in order to help others by sharing features and sometimes make money from it, having the assets cost a fee. Another fact that made Unity a good choice for our development team is that the engine has […]

3D Challenge – Day 1 & 2

Hi!
I feel it is time to introduce myself. My name is Thom Hujanen and I have just finished my first year of my Bachelor’s degree in Game Design and Graphics at Uppsala University – Campus Gotland in Sweden.
So, I am learning game design and everything about graphics in games. I am not sure what my end goal with this education is. But I am going to find it out while I am here. However, I am really interested in 3D […]

3D Challenge – Day 1 & 2

Hi!
I feel it is time to introduce myself. My name is Thom Hujanen and I have just finished my first year of my Bachelor’s degree in Game Design and Graphics at Uppsala University – Campus Gotland in Sweden.
So, I am learning game design and everything about graphics in games. I am not sure what my end goal with this education is. But I am going to find it out while I am here. However, I am really interested in 3D […]

Games Developed during the first year of Game Design- Programming

Here is a link to the drive containing the executable files for the following games that I have made and been part of teams creating, during the first year of Game Design- Programming.
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B5kCdZdOyWYMfjJpbVpxV21BQnkyZ01MQ2tiZHpjMkF1MmdkQTdNNGNzU3ZTa210eFNpQVk&usp=sharing
Unity 
Sticky Situation

A 2 player platformer game where you have to rely on the other player as much as you to traverse the levels.
Controls: Explained ingame.
Save the Penguins

A 2-4 player oddball game where you want to protect the child from the other penguin mothers by […]

Beat Gravity – Post-Mortem

This is a post-mortem for a project that I have been working on for the last 10 weeks, where I together with a dedicated group managed to develop Beat Gravity!
Link to Trailer
 
INTRODUCTION
This is a post-mortem of the project where we worked on the development of the game Beat Gravity for Theme Park course that is part of the course Game Design and Programming. The course was to develop a game with a design for a unique input device, not keyboard […]