Guard running and alerted animation

This week I have continued on the animations. One of the animations I have made this week was a run animation for the guard. This run animation is going to be in the chase state when the guard has detected the spy.
So I started by modifying the walk animation to see how it might look. I did this by removing some frames, but that made it look like the guard was walking really fast. I mixed around a bit with […]

Weekly post. Sound Design

 

Hello world.
This week I’ve focusing on creating sound and fine tuning the last on the design document. The sound for this week have been growling sound that indicates that the character is low on hunger, showing that the avatar is close to death. The idea is to start playing the sound at 50% hunger at really low volume, then increase the volume as the players hunger is decreasing. As well as that I am working on a way to […]

BETA Presentation

Tomorrow is another big day for our game. Tomorrow is the BETA presentation.
In game development there are two major targets to a project. These are the ALPHA release and the BETA release. The Alpha is where you show of the core of the game and what the player will play with. This is the first critical point in a project as it sets the foundation of the game. The second goal is the BETA. This is where you show all […]

ARTIFACT BLOG #5 COLLECTIBLES

Stars!
This week all three of us sat down and did our tasks together, so that we wouldn’t have someone get stuck on a task just before beta. One of the things we’ve done is collecting stars when enemies dies. You collect the stars to get a better score.
The stars themselves work almost exactly like the enemy bullets, only they get added when the enemy’s life has hit zero rather than when they’re in attack range of the player.
When the star […]

ARTIFACT BLOG #5 COLLECTIBLES

Stars!
This week all three of us sat down and did our tasks together, so that we wouldn’t have someone get stuck on a task just before beta. One of the things we’ve done is collecting stars when enemies dies. You collect the stars to get a better score.
The stars themselves work almost exactly like the enemy bullets, only they get added when the enemy’s life has hit zero rather than when they’re in attack range of the player.
When the star […]

Artifact : Level with Layers

What?
The artifact of this week is the Level, or more specifically the Load function of the level. It is based on the platformer code with some small modifications around layers and colliders, creating possiblilities to choose if these should be active or not.
The Level is used for easily drawing out the game level from a txt file, and therefore allows you to work with the level inside an Excel document. This makes it much easier to create the level, rather […]

The end is near

The project is getting close to the end but that has not changed the amount of work I have to do. I still have a lot of animations to do. The attack animations for the children and the strafe animations for the player characters is what I am doing right now. I am also making a hover effect for the menu buttons.
I find it difficult to make good strafe animations. No matter what I do it ends up looking weird […]

A comfortable place to rest

This week I have mostly been continuing my work with furniture and other things in the environment.
Since the first level is supposed to be in the “backgrounds” of the airport, where the administrative staff works, and where all employees have their locker rooms and lunch area for example, we wanted it to look a bit like the typical workplace. But until now there hasn’t been any where to actually do some work.
One thing I made this week was some computers. […]

A comfortable place to rest

This week I have mostly been continuing my work with furniture and other things in the environment.
Since the first level is supposed to be in the “backgrounds” of the airport, where the administrative staff works, and where all employees have their locker rooms and lunch area for example, we wanted it to look a bit like the typical workplace. But until now there hasn’t been any where to actually do some work.
One thing I made this week was some computers. […]

Escape – Group 4 – Week 8 – Apparent Issues

Still working with the level editor, since we underestimated just how time consuming the process could be.Another problem became apparent at the play-testing session last Monday. There was no way to test the actual levels. The lead programmer wasn’t able to generate the levels via the TXT’s until a few hours before the session. And so, testers would see weirdly placed furniture, empty rooms and run into invisible walls. Another problem was that if an object would be set so […]

Game Project Week 8 – Adding Details

This week I continued my work with the environment adding details which I have covered in an earlier blog post so I’m just going to go into more depth about the work flow.
I started to fringe the edges using a couple brushes that I created earlier. I placed the fringe in a layer which is placed underneath the texture layer, at that point it looked pretty badly and nothing like a thorn piece of clothing, which I was aiming for. […]

Game dev, Suit’em up – New polish features

We have recently had our second playtesting session, the pre-beta one. We got a lot of great feedback to work with. The one thing I think we need to add desperately at this point is player feedback. Another thing that needed to be added, which came up during the playtesting was that playtesters thought that it was boring running long distances across the world.
I’ve been working hard on the second point, the “boring long distances” these past few days and […]