A Rat Betwixt – Initiative

The turn order of all enemies and players are determined by their initiative. This is pretty much how things have been done in turn-based RPG’s since forever in some form. We could’ve determined a characters initiative with rolling a dice, add a base value and call it a day, but we thought that it wasn’t interesting enough. And we’d like to avoid pure dice rolls if possible.

At the start of the planning phase of each turn, the player is shown […]

A Rat Betwixt

This post is already 2 weeks late – so let’s get going right away.
It’s been over a year since the last series of posts and now I’m back to write about the project I’m curently working on: A Rat Betwixt. It’s a turn-based local (for now – probably online in the future) multiplayer co-op(tional?) strategy RPG, with some deception and hidden agendas mixed in.

The game is played on one large screen – such as a TV or a projector – […]

BGP: Sixth post

So I discovered the statistics page. Shout-out to the person who found their way here from the states, hope you were as amused as I am now anxious knowing that this thing is indexed in search engines. Do not judge me too harshly.

This week poking around with different things like little effects, animations on the HUD to better communicate loss and gain of life and other such things happened. I threw together an interface for the weapons shop from the terminal-window assets. […]

BGP: Fourth Post

This week was more focused on adjustments and trying to tune up what we already had before going into adding on more ways to interact with the town.
I created a couple of poster variations for the billboards spread around town:

As well a couple of very simple diffuse and alpha textures for the windows and doors to prevent them from having emissive all over the mesh.
Then it was mostly smaller but time-consuming adjustments like changing the lights to a warmer hue […]