The first concept art for the game “aggressive bystander”. Before I begun working on the image I sketched on a lot of different constellations on the theme of the game. The theme is in short terms, an old guy caught in the middle of a riot. He is equally pissed off at all sides of the riot, both police and protestors. So he starts to take out all of his frustration on everything within reach. He is basically fed up […]

Project Terminal – The Fatigue Meter

Last week I took on the responsibility of creating the HUD for the game. In this post I will showcase the fatigue meter and explain how I’ve been thinking when designing it.
 
Our character will be able to sprint when moving through the game world. While sprinting a fatigue meter will gradually be filling up. When it is filled you will start breathing heavily which makes you more likely to alert the guards in the near vicinity of you.
 
For starters, I […]

Soon I am done with the Document

This week I have been working on the design document. It is going well and I have put down all my time to it. It will soon be done and my fellow team mates can look at it and give me some response. I have been dealing with the games details. Things that make a game work. A design document is a little like a rulebook. If you follow the document every part of the game from coding to art […]

Character concepts for Playground Panic

My work on this project so far have been mostly concept art for the player characters.
I began to work on the female character first as the original game concept only had a female character.  An insecure teenager that doesn’t like getting her hands dirty, and worries about keeping the kids clean in order to look good in front of the parents.

This is what i ended up with. I spent a lot of time on the player characters for them […]

Character concepts for Playground Panic

My work on this project so far have been mostly concept art for the player characters.
I began to work on the female character first as the original game concept only had a female character.  An insecure teenager that doesn’t like getting her hands dirty, and worries about keeping the kids clean in order to look good in front of the parents.
http://shellson.deviantart.com/art/Playground-Panic-player-character1-433592593
This is what i ended up with. I spent a lot of time on the player characters for […]

2014-02-12 – An artifact

The end of this project is drawing closer and we are all starting to see some result from our hard work – gamewise as well as learningwise.
One of my tasks has been to create a code for the paralax function which will consist of a couple of layers of mountains or hills disappearing in the horizon, a story box and clouds. As soon as I figured out how to work with the paralax and different layers it was pretty easy […]

Haunted Light 2014-02-12 STATES

As the first official blog post of the project I am now to describe an artifact that is complete an put into the game. I am going to describe the different states of our game engine. But first of all why do we need states to being with, why not just write the code on the blank code sheet you have in front of you?
Well you can of course do that, but in the long run the program with states […]

2014-02-12

Today I applied my States to the main project and made the spawn and despawn of the next part of the gameplay-area works flawlessly (at least so far, you never know when things starts getting messed up).
I ahve also cleaned up my code and re-organized it a bit by creating classes and making them work.

2014-02-12 – An artifact

The end of this project is drawing closer and we are all starting to see some result from our hard work – gamewise as well as learningwise.
One of my tasks has been to create a code for the paralax function which will consist of a couple of layers of mountains or hills disappearing in the horizon, a story box and clouds. As soon as I figured out how to work with the paralax and different layers it was pretty easy […]

The Blog, a Resurrection!

New times and new blog-posts!
Recently in the course Game Development – Introduction my group began developing a game from a concept created by another group of student. The concept was called Possession, a Shooter style game inspired by east-Asian lore.
As a part of the course we are supposed to take an artefact for the game that we have worked on or completed and describe our work process. The one I have chosen for this blog post is the death […]

2014-02-12

Today I applied my States to the main project and made the spawn and despawn of the next part of the gameplay-area works flawlessly (at least so far, you never know when things starts getting messed up).
I ahve also cleaned up my code and re-organized it a bit by creating classes and making them work.

The steep learning curve of animation.

During the past three weeks of our ten week project, I took up the work to animate the main character of our game. I thought this would be good practice since I’ve been animating some before in Adobe flash, although nothing more complicated than stick figures.The previous experience in animating movement did help. But this time I needed not to animate a straw-thin character, I had to animate a body with some actual mass. I started off with animating the […]