Last week

Last week didn’t offer much to work on the 3D area of the game, as most of the assets that is needed for the game has been done. However the game was still missing certain effects that would be needed in order to make the player get the aesthetic feel we want them to feel.
For the water room, i created a waterfall that would simple just show a flow of water that hits a surface and water drops scatter. The cascade […]

Beta week

I’ve been working even more on the terrain. I’ve started to fill up the higher part of the terrain with vegetation. The lower part is nearly done. I’ve said that I will fill up the whole terrain and then iterate on the places that need it rather than doing an area 100% perfect from the beginning. Just want the whole terrain done…
The upper part is almost done; I have been placing trees, rocks, grass, textures and even height differences to […]

Rearranging the puzzles

Our main idea was to make two different levels. The one we started on was meant to be the second one,the factory level. The first one would work like a tutorial level to present the different robots and solutions for the player and would be a city area. Apart from makin meshes, I have spent the last weeks designing the different puzzles and rooms for this set up, but by the end of last week we realised that we wouldn’t be able […]

Week 7 of Big Game Project

A late post for last weeks work, but better late than never 🙂
So we are rounding up for GGC, getting our last assets done and some small fix and changes.
I have primaraly been working on particle effects this week to help indicate the gain of speed. I have also done some menu stuff like buttons and background for different menu states.
the particle effects i created this week was a ”wind blowing past at high speed” effect, an exhaust effects for […]

Big game project – E.R.A – Eternal Resonance Arena – Post 5

This week i’ve mainly focused on getting the map as done as possible, as well as taking a first look at particle effects. We weren’t at all happy with how our map looked and so i decided to take on the trees and create a few variations on them. We soon came to realize that we had to break up the dark pineforest with some leaftrees and different colors. The ground on our map was rather boring as well so […]

ERA – Week 7 of Production

This week I mainly worked on a myriad of smaller tasks. Either to patch up or polish existing behaviors or to add new smaller features to the game.
One thing I did was to make sure all renderers (drawable parts) of an object responded to the fog of war. So if an object is in the fog, it and all its GUI layers will be invisible to the enemy teams camera.
I also added a basic GUI setup to the commander, similar […]

Big Game Project: Defunct: Week 7

I had some goals for my level, I needed to continue decorating, fix collisions, add physical objects (that you can run into), rename and group my objects and remove animators from them. However, decorating the level, adding trees, junk, rocks, houses and grass in all empty areas takes an incredible amount of time.
We have levels that are huge, while having quite a high standard on decoration. You can’t simply spray trees and rocks everywhere.
 
As you can see, we decorate […]

Decals

Last week was busy as usual, especially since the deadline approaches fast. The crunch continues, and it’s both exhausting and nice to get a lot of things done. I continued working in the factory level, placing out props that was finished and fixing missing geometry. A lot of them I also textured myself, as we have only one other texture artist and they are painted by hand. I’ve gotten used to the style so I can do them pretty fast, […]

Big Game Project Week 7

The past week i started to implement as much of the sound effects and music as i could, i focused on implementing sound effects that either relate or require some sort of coding or blueprint work in order to work.
These are the sound effects that i managed to implement.

Death Sound Effects – Different depending on what way you die. ( I also added a fade out and fade in for respawning, so it’s not instant)
Walking Sounds – Different depending on […]

Cards – Big Game Project

For the majority of my time this week, I have been working on implementing a lot of different cards for the game and I made twelve cards in total. These are the cards people can buy for resources and then use to play them when they draw the cards. There are different cards in different categories. Some help you gain resources or cards; some help you manage your deck and some are used to sabotage your opponent in some way. […]

Planning for the Trailer (Week 7)

The hardest part for me this week was that I was away from production and could not do all the things I wanted to do. The feeling of leaving the team behind during this crucial time was something that made me feel as though I was letting the team down. The plan was that I should have done the trailer this week but due to the fact that I would have no time to work on it, I put the […]

Big Game Project – Week 7

We began our crunch this week, working 12 hours a day. It’s been quite exhausting but we’re closer to a finished game.
We made a list of things that needed to be done, anything we could think of. We checked it off as the week went by and most of the high priority tasks were done by the time we went home on Friday.
When I made the waypoint system for the enemies’ movement (covered in a post a while back) I […]