Developers Diary. Meeting 2. Jetpack Orangutan.

Second Meeting.
We met up again and immediately began discussing what the group had done.
As producer I had the team assemble in the library and I asked the group to look at the slides for the One-Page Design Lecture that Marcus had put on our web-portal for Uppsala University.
The first thing we did was decide on a high-concept. A sentence that is the essence of our game, is punchy and informative and interesting.
After that we decided to hold off on the […]

Developers Diary. Meeting 1. Orangutan.

First meeting.
We met up to start the prject by discussing our different ideas and settling on one.
First things first however, we decided to fill in the other roles:
I was given the role of Producer.
Erik decided to be Lead Coder.
Filip decided that Lead Art was for him.
Marcus chose Game Designer.
Alex 1 chose QA and Lead Sound was given to Alex 2.
We discussed at length our different game ideas and finally settled on Marcus’s, which I’ll explain briefly:
You are an Orangutan in […]

What´s so great about games?

A while ago we had to write a Swedish popular scientific text connected to our education. I noticed that several students chose to write about game violence. So I figured it would be a good counter to write about the good things we can get from gaming.
Datorspel kan göra dig smartare
Kan man lära sig något bra utav tv och datorspel eller finns det bara våld att hämta? Trots många krigsspel och klagomål på spelvåld så finns det flertal användningsområden där […]

Five week game-concept

This week we started with a project that will run for five weeks. The assignment is to make a game-concept during these weeks that will be a 2D space-shooter featuring a theme based on two words that we have been given randomly. My groups words is:

Underground
Suburban

And how do you make a space-shooter from these words?
A space-shooter does not mean exactly what the name suggests. It means that there is no gravity in the game that affects players or ammunition of […]

What´s so great about games?

A while ago we had to write a Swedish popular scientific text connected to our education. I noticed that several students chose to write about game violence. So I figured it would be a good counter to write about the good things we can get from gaming.
Datorspel kan göra dig smartare
Kan man lära sig något bra utav tv och datorspel eller finns det bara våld att hämta? Trots många krigsspel och klagomål på spelvåld så finns det flertal användningsområden där […]

Five week game-concept

This week we started with a project that will run for five weeks. The assignment is to make a game-concept during these weeks that will be a 2D space-shooter featuring a theme based on two words that we have been given randomly. My groups words is:

Underground
Suburban

And how do you make a space-shooter from these words?
A space-shooter does not mean exactly what the name suggests. It means that there is no gravity in the game that affects players or ammunition of […]

3D modeling organic characters – Assignment 3 update

As our final assignment for our 3D graphics course we students are going to model organic characters. Before modeling, a lot of time was put in to finding good concepts with turnarounds and later then creating a character background and setting for that chosen model. In other words, a full fletched pre-production package had to be made. During class the teacher told us to later switch pre-production packages with one another and the package I got was from a student […]

3D modeling organic characters – Assignment 3 update

As our final assignment for our 3D graphics course we students are going to model organic characters. Before modeling, a lot of time was put in to finding good concepts with turnarounds and later then creating a character background and setting for that chosen model. In other words, a full fletched pre-production package had to be made. During class the teacher told us to later switch pre-production packages with one another and the package I got was from a student […]

Week 5

So here is my final result for assignment 1 complete with normal, diffuse color and specular maps. In these images the crate is only rendered in 3ds max locally. I have made a few minor changes from the crate I handed in since it was not approved as it was then. I have optimized the poly count further and I have also tweaked around with the diffuse color and specular maps, and I think it […]

The Markham Chronicles

So two weeks ago me and four others got together to answer a challenge.
Create a game through a random plot generator and draw up a sales document.
Our result was a point and click adventure for tablets that we’re really sad wont be made into a real game anytime soon. Because despite being made by rolling some virtual dice and interpreting some random images on said dice, the concept turned out really awesome.
What did we learn?
The sales document should have been […]

Soffan som blev ett fort

Som en man med ett livslångt spelande bakom sig känner jag mig ofta priviligierad. Jag har upplevt så många milstolpar i spelbranschen sedan den där dagen 1991 då jag köpte mitt första Nintendo för hårt förvärvade sparpengar. Alla de gånger hjärtat slog hårdare av febrig förväntan då något nytt och revolutionerande briserade på marknaden.
Alla dessa spel ägnade jag mig åt med hjärtans fröjd, ofta med vänner i släptåg. I mina föräldrars tv-soffa fanns alltid plats för en till. Vi lekte […]

Män har aldrig haft ensamrätt på TV-och datorspel

Under september månad skedde en häxjakt på speldesignern Zoe Quinn. Quinns expojkvän hade skrivit blogg om sitt havererade förhållande med den uppmärksammade skaparen av indiespelet Depression Quest. Quinn hade enligt honom varit otrogen med en känd speljournalist. Under kommande vecka skulle en mobb av kvinnohatare på internet använda Zoe Quinn som ofrivilligt bevismaterial i en länge framhärdande konspirationsteori om att spelrecensenter går att köpa. Zoe Quinn hade förstås ”tagit sängvägen till framgång” menade de. Det faktum att den recension på […]