Symbiosis Week 2 – Planning and building
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To say that it’s only the second week I work on this would be a lie. I have worked on the concept and idea for this game for about four months. But it is only two weeks of having a full team and beginning to build this game. This is the last course of year two at Uppsala University and will span 8 weeks of development before the exhibition of Gotland Game Conference. Symbiosis is a single player game where you control two characters to explore and solve puzzles. Characters: Together they need to find the fifth element: Aether, the spirit of balance. They move through their spirit world and use their different abilities to solve challenges. I am currently in charge of planning for the project and coaching my team. Though I work on communication within the team, fixing excel documents to record our progress and keeping track of deadlines I still work actively on modeling environmental assets. I figure it will be a lot more fun to show pictures of the models and environment in the game than my Trello pages Forests are usually made up of trees, so naturally I want to create a some of those. In this particular forest the spirits have created the trees, so some are extremely large, others smaller. I started with the large and medium ones, because they add the most to the feel of the game and they take the least time to create, seeing how I only create the bottom part of the trunk. Concepts for the trees: Knotted trees, with clear and sudden bends and distinctly triangle shaped leafs. Some of the models are down below. These are still not done, but are in themselves concepts for what we could keep working on.I also made a hazard for the game. One hazard within the game is a bush with thorns, radiating bad energy. They will shrink away if they’re hit by sunlight. This is only models, color and textures will be added in the coming weeks. Next week I will link a site to the game. Take care!  |
(yes I have two for this project… as well as several different excel documents of planning… show another time?).
