Project Neiva Week 3

Hello!
Last week the focus was on getting the player to feel good, to get the player to feel better we changed the movement and the speed of the player. We also changed how one of the projectiles worked and how the camera moved.
During a playtest we had the week before we collected data about how the testers felt. Most of the tester thought the player moved to fast, the jump and the camera did not feel right and that one […]

The initial weeks of BGP have ended!

So me and my group have now been working 2 weeks on our big game project, Synapse. Since we were a group which was formed late and with an unfinished (at that time) concept, the initial part of the project was put on finishing the idea of the game. Our group consists of 6 2D artists who have various tasks and 1 programmer, myself. Since I’m the only programmer I’m also in charge of making sure that the technical things […]

Big Game Project: Week 2

The second week (Apr 11 – Apr 15) development of our game “Kei” continues. This week I kept on working on the main character (Kei). The focus this week, however, was player animations. Our graphics artists produced a 3D model our main character as well as her Idle, Run and Attack animations. I implemented these animations into the game.
To do it, I learned the basics of Unity’s Blend Trees. A blend tree blends two or more animations and produces intermediate animations […]

BGP: Second Post

This week I have been mainly going over assets, UV-mapping, lightmapping and re-assigning material ID:s to make the environment texturing easier and tried out a couple of texture setups to see what would work for the visual style we had in mind. It’s been a bit tricky, since it’s our first time working with 3D in Unity so every step is a bit trial-and-error. Nothing I’d like to show so far unfortunately but here’s a piece of promotional art for […]

Tale – Big Game Project

Hello! For the last three weeks I have been working on a Third person action adventure game called Tale for the course Big Game Project. This is the first time im working with Unity 5 3D and it has been a challenge! I have had to learn some new math and a lot of Unity’s 3d syntax.
During these three weeks  I have been working on a couple of features:

The character controller – Movement
Bow Aiming and Shooting
The Camera

The hardest task […]

Neiva programming blog 2

I’ve been working on the player character movement. That includes running, jumping, land on moving platforms, move WITH moving platforms and more… I’ll now talk about how I created the jumping movement.
In the Neiva game we have the main character the player controls: NEIVA. It’s a two legged little creature that looks cute, colorful and non-realistic. In the game, we did not want realistic movement. A realistic jump would be a single jump force up from the ground and then […]

Big Game Project week 2

This week had its ups and downs. There are so many things to be decided that I haven´t got the faintest clue about how to do. I have never made a 3D game before in my entire life! The thing I’ve been trying to figure out this week is how her attack animations will work and how they should be programmed. I cant just say “she should have a big sword and wave it around and stuff” Will she make […]

Big Game Project – Tale

Greetings, it is time for blog posts again. This time it is for big game project. This course is about making a game in about 8 weeks, and then showing the game at the GGC conference. The game we are making is named Tale, and is developed in Unity. 
This is the third week into big game project, thought the blogging starts now. Therefore I will describe the most important discoveries, solutions and problems related to code I have encountered during these three […]

Big Game Project Week One

The time has come to participate in a course where I can actually make a game and not just graphics for one. That is something I have felt is lacking the last few months.
I am working on a game that is so far called SpaceGoo Adventures. It is about three? slime creatures with different abilities traversing a world to find parts for their broken teleporterthingie. It is a 3D plattformer collectathon reminicent of old Nintendo 64 games like Mario 64 […]

Big Game Project Week 2

Week two of the big game project has come to an end and the game has progressed a fair bit. The work that I have done has not produced any new assets for the game but I have used the modular assets already created to build houses and the beginning of the city.
During this week a lot of time has been spent UV and light mapping the assets that I created last week. But some time has been used to create the […]

Synapse: An Introduction

Been a while since my last activity here, so hello again! The final big game production of the university year is in full swing, so I’ll be tracking my process via this blog.
The concept I created, and is now working on, is the game Synapse. To sum it up in as few words as possible, it’s a touchscreen tablet game where you explore the functions of a neurotypical, and non-neurotypical brains, by guiding nerve signals to various parts of the […]

Synapse: Big Game Project Post #1 and #2

Week 1:
Note that I joined this project later than the other members and as such was not involved with the initial development of the game.
That said, we had recently started on the our big game project called Synapse. It is meant to be an educational brain-tampering game, or rather a simulator, where you show the player an image of the different regions of the brain and a character linked to it. The player is then allowed to send pulses throughout […]