Better colliders. Artifact 3

I repaired the CollisionManager. It was broke. I dont want to talk about it.
From yesterday though:
When the player fish and an enemy collides, two things will happen in this game right now:
1. The player receives experience points. These are what will make the Player grow and level up though out the game.
2. The enemy will be eaten. In other words both the enemy collider and the enemy object, carrying a sprite and some functions get deleted.
(Enemy object are not discussed in […]

University Projects: Environmental Design Continued!

Hello Everyone!
Still working on the project With Intent as it is now called and it’s been solidly going forward and this week I’ve been working even more on the environmental design. For me this week has been a pretty repetitive week, as I’ve been adding and cleaning up the rooms from last week to a map.
So I started out working on a corridor frame on top of a large background picture. To create all the corridors on the level I’ve […]

Still Working.

So this week I was supposed to do the animations but I was still not pleased with the sprites and I was also told that the spy should not have a hat any more. This was decided because there was people that did not understand the hat or something like that. I heard that some thought that it looked like a bicycle helmet and that I can agree with that. The down bumps in the hat looked like the holes […]

AI for the bosses

Even though I have been home with a fever this week I have tried to do some work from home. I have been drawing some sort of flowcharts over the three bosses AI. The boss I am going to start with when it comes to code is the final boss, Mothgomery. This because if we run out of time we think this is the most important one for the game. He is the “emperor of the suit” who started the […]

The colour of life

This week has been a not so productive week for me, nevertheless a very important week. Up to now we haven’t had any style guide or anything at all to look at while making art in order to make different components to work together and look good. But when Ida made a mood board in the end of last week we finally started to get a common visual goal on what we wanted to achieve.
So this week we have had more […]

The colour of life

This week has been a not so productive week for me, nevertheless a very important week. Up to now we haven’t had any style guide or anything at all to look at while making art in order to make different components to work together and look good. But when Ida made a mood board in the end of last week we finally started to get a common visual goal on what we wanted to achieve.
So this week we have had more […]

10 Week Project – Post 3 – Why U No Walk?

 
In previous posts I’ve written about how the player should be introduced to the game world and now it’s time to start to think about how to introduce the mechanics to the player.
All of our mechanics should be introduced in the tutorial level, but how? The mechanics that needs to be introduced are:

Movement
Sprinting
Use
Knock Out

The first one and most essential is probably movement, so we’re going to start with that one.
I’ve discussed our minimal HUD and GUI before, so we need […]

Game dev, Suit’em up – Customization menu and textile (pickups) manager

We are preparing for a play testing with friends and family. Some things need to be added before that and one of them is the customization menu.
I have worked hard on revising the menu. To explain what it does: In our game there are four different textile pickups that are scattered throughout the world. These can be equipped into four slots in the customization menu.
Previously, the menu looked like this:

In this old menu, you had to press one of […]

Week 5: Title Screen And Buttons!

OK so we got 2 more weeks until our Beta-Deadline, uh i can feel it closing in!
I wanted to plan everything so that we don’t miss out on the stuff we need to add to our game, i got the tip from our SCRUM-Master, Lee. Lee is a third year student and works as a mentor to us, he has done some projects before us and been the “Producer”. He asked me about how i keep track on our progress […]

Menus and fonts!

Hello again and welcome back to my blog!
This week I took a break from animations, mostly because we are done with all the animations for the game. We also noticed that we could get done with all the art and graphics for the game if we just did a bit more work then what  we usually during a during a week. So I and Nils decided that we were going to finish all the art this week so we can […]

Menus and fonts!

Hello again and welcome back to my blog!
This week I took a break from animations, mostly because we are done with all the animations for the game. We also noticed that we could get done with all the art and graphics for the game if we just did a bit more work then what  we usually during a during a week. So I and Nils decided that we were going to finish all the art this week so we can […]

Project Haunted Light 14-02-27

About two weeks ago I finished the animation for a creature in the game called a “wall monster”, or “Waller” for short. Rather early in the project we decided to give the player a candle that would be their source of light. If the candle was blown out it would become dark around the player, making it harder to navigate and avoid the enemies. At first we thought about having the light go out if the player sprinted for too […]