Design Decisions

My name is Marcus Litholm and I am currently Lead Designer for the game Project: Floating Islands, the game is a survival RTS game where the player will have to control settlers on two separate layers. One is above on an island where they can concentrate on base-building and refinement, the other is down below in a jungle where the player will focus on resource gathering and combat.
Throughout the first week I’ve been concentrating on designing different aspects of the […]

Nihteana: Animations

A while ago I finished Nihteana’s animations, at least up until a point where I could do no more before I could see all of them implemented correctly in the engine. Fortunately the coders have not found any issues so far.

Nihteana out for a walk, testing the rig and skin in 3Ds Max

I had all my mocap data cleaned since before Christmas and the frames which I was going to use selected. As expected […]

GDC: Overwatch animation talk summary

Long time no see!
This post is for once not related to any classes but rather to my recent trip to another continent during which I attended a mixture of various talks, took some photos and scribbled down some notes, all which will be featured here in a pseudo-orderly fashion eventually.
One of my favorite talks was given at the animation bootcamp by David Gibson who spoke about approaching character animation in Overwatch, using the hero Mei as an example:

The first part of […]

End of 3DIII and start of BGP!

I bet you didn’t know I like to rhyme. In fact, I do it all the time.
Anyway, during the past couple of weeks me, Emma and Kristofer have been working on finishing up Saraswati for the end of our 3D course. This is how she turned out in the end!

She looks super cool! Kristofer is responsible for the texturing and he really made her look amazing. Especially the normal maps looks great 🙂 She turned out a bit darker than […]

New project on the way!

Introduction
This post is the first of a weekly series that I’ll be updating during the big game project course leading up to the Gotland Game Conference in late May. I’ll be writing about features that I’ve worked on during the weeks.
This post will mostly describe the game concept and my role in the team, as this week mostly has been about pre-production.
The Concept
As of now we don’t have a name for the game, so the working title is Project Neiva. […]

Vecka 1

Jag skapade en dagbok/logg som är öppen för hela min grupp att skriva i när saker händer och förändras under produktionens gång. Och jag tänkte att jag borde dela med mig av vad jag personligen har skrivit iallafall så ni kan följa med vad som har kommit upp under veckan och hur det går för oss att skapa Sam and Nicole.

Så här är mina inlägg från den här veckan, hoppas ni gillar att läsa det här även om det var […]

Twitchoverlay v0.3a

After my previous post, I decided to continue with the Twitch Overlay. I recently got done with a version I call 0.3a. The feature list isn’t that big, but I was able to reach a streamer and get some feedback on the program. That said if anyone reading this are streaming and want to test it out, let me know. I would love to hear from you.
One of the features requested was a tray that comes in and out of […]

Sam and Nicole

Stort spelprojekt eller big game project som kursen kallas är nu igång! Jag ska tillsammans med Tova Svensson, Emma Mörk och Lisa Ramel göra spelet Sam and Nicole som jag har jobbat på själv i ett par veckor nu. Jag kom på idén under serious games och jag hade sån pass tur så jag fick grönt ljus och får faktiskt skapa mitt koncept!

Så vad är Sam and Nicole?

Jo, det ska jag berätta för dig, det är […]

Week 1 – Big Game Project Catch-up

It is that time of the year again.
It is time to develop a game, a vertical slice for Gotland Game Conference where me and my great team will exhibit a game concept we have had in the making for quite a while now. And this mysterious game for the time being is called F.R.A.U.S.
This post is the first of many to come, and the purpose with this one is to catch up with what I have been doing in the […]

Theme Park

Oh wow, I am saying it again, ooooohh wooow. What a week! It has been the first week for theme park, a course where I and my team will make an arcade game with an unusual input (that means we can’t use keyboard and mouse or a any handheld game controller). So me and my group have started working on a concept on a game where you play as a planet and you swing astroids using your gravitaional pull, that […]

blog 6 – 5SD033

Hej mitt namn är Robin och denna vecka har jag jobbat med att försöka göra klart vårat spel inför final redovisningen på fredag, och det jag försökte få klart inför den redovisningen var förbättringar till vårat scoreboard system så att när spelaren har klarat av spelet kan personen skriva in sitt namn, så att både namnet och poängen sparas i en textfil och om poängen är högre en dom tidigare poängen som finns i listan ska den göra så att poängen hamnar […]

Project – update

Last week I talked about how I used UDP to open up a TCP socket to send a file to the client. This week I did some more testing and it turns out that I don’t need to open up TCP in order to send an image. Since my solution was to use localhost as the communication platform between the two programs, the files that you want to use will also be on the local harddrive.
If the program was meant […]