How we prepared for Beta presentation

Today I am going to talk about how we prepared for the Beta presentation.
 
Until now we had two presentations. For the readers that do not know what kind of presentations we are having, let me elaborate a bit.
During the project of making shoot em up games, there are three presentations we have to give. Those are called Alpha, Beta and Final. For the presentation, we have to show the audience how we worked on our game, what went well, […]

Animating

As last week came to its end I finished up the scenes that we were going to have as a narrative in the beginning of the game. In my previous post there is a more thorough description of what is going on in the scenes and how I created them. Here is the end result:

(When adding these scenes into the game we will also add a narrative text and possibly some atmospheric music.)
The focus for me this week has been to create animations […]

UI Rework

This week, I’m going to write about the two core components of the game UI. The navigation lights and the child status panel. The navigation lights were added because the feedback from the play testing showed that people were getting lost a lot and needed an easier way to navigate the map. The child status panel was added because the old one was long due for a revamp.
So, to start with, the child status panel. This is what the old […]

3DS Max Tutorial

A programmer friend was trying to make a 3D box and asked me to do a tutorial, so I made a short introduction to 3DS Max for beginners. Hopefully even programmer friendly! 🙂

Beta Presentation, Week 5

 
So this week has been interesting in several ways.
To start with we have had both good and bad news. The good news is that we are almost done with the project. We think we have done what we originally thought we would do but, here comes the bad news,  we are still missing out on some of the art.
This might have been because of lacing communication but also because our artist is the only artist and he has been […]

Puzzle game Cryptogram uses a real bookshelf to open secret doors

I’ve never in my life had the experience of tilting a book off an old dusty bookshelf and unlocking a secret passageway, but I hope I do before I die. Movies have never sold us a more believable-but-still-magical fantasy than the passage behind the bookshelf, or the revolving bookshelf that turns under your feet and rotates you, speechless, into a hidden laboratory. But I have now gotten to play a game inspired by that fantasy, and it’s one of the […]

5sd064 Designing Map Layout

Hello, Thomas Härdin, Lead Game Design of group Fenrir here.
Today i will be covering something that i have wanted to work on for some time but was unable to due to the status of the game earlier. Namely map layout.
So what do i mean by map layout? Well essentially it is the structure of everything you can move on and interact with in our game, mainly focused on the rooms that the main character spy is moving around in and […]

Creating an Accessible User Interface

Author: Hanna Hagenmalm
Team: Leviathan
Concept: Draxl’s Journey
The past two weeks I have spent designing the user interface (UI) for the game.
A cluttered, dense user interface can be difficult to navigate. For new gamers, who might not be accustomed to interpreting the information presented by a game, and for people with some form of visual impairment, it might become overwhelming; a barrier to actually playing the game.
Given that the game I am working on is aimed at non-players and casual players, as […]

Game Design 2 – Sound design of the Music of the game : The logic behing it (Team Leviathan)

Author : Arnaud Mimoun
 For this week’s blog I’ll talk about the struggles I had to work on the music of our game.
For this major asset I made a total of 3 loops, each one’s preceded with a segment off music to create transition between each loops that compose the music of our game :
 

Here is the original music from which comes the loops and segment of music.

   I as Producer, Project Manager and Sound Designer of our game […]

So many blogs, so little time

Hey friends!
Im sorry that this place is quite because now I am working on a new project called Penny’s Farm and responsible for updating blogs and other  social media. If you want to check it out it’s Pennys farm.wordpress here and @pennysfarmgame on twitter and @pennys_farm_game on Instagram. Check us out
On another note I am graduating soon and not sure what the future will look like. At least I will be a member of the team organizing Nordic Game […]

Game Production Diary 4

This was the last week before our beta demonstration. We finally got together all our assets into one large pile to get them into a comprehensive experience. I finally got some time with everything we have. And the construction of the level turned out to be an interesting thing to do (I never doubted that it will be).

I had only a general idea of how to structure our level. The task we have allows us to create games with only […]

Shot, shot, shots.

Heyo, here we are again for a new post on my blog. Today I’m going to talk projectiles and their animations. So buckle up your seat belt and let’s jump in into panda’s analytical brain again.
Anyway for today I’m going to talk about projectiles. At first I thought since our protagonists are insects, that they would spit fluids at their enemies and that their fluids would be on the other side of the spectrum to bring contrast. Per example if […]