Advanced Hard Surface Modeling Assignment – Prepping

As the first few weeks have passed of our first 3D modeling course at the university, our teacher saw that some of the students already knew the basics. So, she was kind enough to create a more advanced assignment for a select few.
This assignment consists of modeling an ingame vehicle based on existing concept art. (Seen above) and also chose a game where this vehicle could be from and try to make our models fit that theme. 

I chose to model […]

3D – Week 3 – Optimizing crates

I’ll be posting two 3D-related posts this week, this first one about optimizing our crate-models from last week. As you’ll know if you read last weeks’ post I’ve created three different crate-models, based on three different themes. During this weeks’ workshop the class split into groups of three, and in the groups exchanged models with each other, so that we all got to clean up one model from each member in the group. Two of my three models have been […]

3D – Week 3 – Optimizing crates

I’ll be posting two 3D-related posts this week, this first one about optimizing our crate-models from last week. As you’ll know if you read last weeks’ post I’ve created three different crate-models, based on three different themes. During this weeks’ workshop the class split into groups of three, and in the groups exchanged models with each other, so that we all got to clean up one model from each member in the group. Two of my three models have been […]

Third week complete!

Academic writing & Essays
This week, as said in previous post, started with two lectures on academic writing, documenting and pitching your games. We were given an assignment to design an Impending Doom game, which means that you cannot win, you will always lose at some point. We were then asked to write an essay on this game and on our ideas about it. Writing an essay on a game design was a bit tricky, since it is not regularly done, […]

Week 3.

As week three comes to an end, so does another week full of exciting new ways to construct and design games.
At the first days of the week, we were given a lecture on pitch, documentation, and design documents, and the importance of these. By documenting the things we design, by keeping track of what we’re doing, it gets harder to get lost. There seems to be a heavy focus on getting us all used to writing academically, something I’m not […]

Game workshop with Ernest Adams

During Thursday afternoon and Friday morning we had a workshop with Ernest Adams, who has written one of the books in our course literature (Fundamentals of Game Design). First, he had a lecture that was very interesting. Ernest said he made the lecture before the MDA concept was even a thing, but you could still hear bits and pieces of it during the lecture, although it might’ve been under other names.
For the workshop we were divided into groups of five and […]

Week 3.

As week three comes to an end, so does another week full of exciting new ways to construct and design games.
At the first days of the week, we were given a lecture on pitch, documentation, and design documents, and the importance of these. By documenting the things we design, by keeping track of what we’re doing, it gets harder to get lost. There seems to be a heavy focus on getting us all used to writing academically, something I’m not […]

The Five Heads of the Hydra

Greetings!
Was watching a QnA with the youtuber Jesse Cox earlier this week. In it he talked about a fanart of himself he anted to be drawn, and it was mostly from the image he described I got this idea.
I had some trouble when it came to how I wanted the hero to be portraid, but I think it came out rather well for the skill level I am at.

As I usually do, I started with a simple sketch and a […]

Perparing for “assignment 2″ in 3D1

I was looking at two objects i saw that the jar would be something easy to model and I knew that it was something that I would manage to complete pretty easy. Looking at the dagger I realized that this would be a more difficult choice, but there were reasons to why i chose it. If I would start modeling this one I would learn a lot more, the complex shapes and details would suit me well when I want […]

Peer Review: Carcassonne. Original analysys by Max Nordlund.

The second part of the assignment about board games was to exchange games with another group, play their game and write a peer review for a member of the other group’s system analysis.
The person i’m writing a peer review for is Max Nordlund who wrote about Carcassonne, the original analysis can be found here.
http://maxmaekvidya.wordpress.com/2014/09/12/board-game-analysis-carcassonne/
I enjoyed reading your analysis, I found it well put together and well-paced where you don’t mix up the content relating to the different […]

Board Game Peer Review: Small World

This is my review of Rebecka N’s analysis of the board game Small World. You can read her post on the game here.
I’ll be going through each point of the review instructions one by one while addressing Rebecka’s analysis in this post.

Objectively worst parts of the game
Rebecka thought the worst parts of the game were the confusing instructions and poor balancing of certain race + power combinations. I agree that the instructions are far from perfect, and the […]

Peer Review: Carcassonne. Original analysys by Max Nordlund.

The second part of the assignment about board games was to exchange games with another group, play their game and write a peer review for a member of the other group’s system analysis.
The person i’m writing a peer review for is Max Nordlund who wrote about Carcassonne, the original analysis can be found here.
http://maxmaekvidya.wordpress.com/2014/09/12/board-game-analysis-carcassonne/
I enjoyed reading your analysis, I found it well put together and well-paced where you don’t mix up the content relating to the different […]