#Artwar Character Contest: Briannon | Final

This morning was the deadline for the #Artwar character contest which I am participating in. Was going to post my final entry last night, but then their forum went down. :SNow it is posted and the deadline passed, so I just wanted to share the final result (although it is getting ahead of retopology and texturing parts.
This is the very first art contest that I am participating in and it was definitely a challenge. I am not […]

Of sprite sheets and animations

This week, I’m going to write about my work with sprite sheets and animations. Even though this is more in the line of an artist’s job, I decided to do it because in the end, it turned out to be a numbers game. Plus, we wanted to implement multiple animations on the same sprite, so it required coding.
So why was it a ‘numbers game’. And why the multiple animations. We had three animated objects in the game. The player itself, […]

Play-testing and Beta stress

As of this week, we attended the play-testing and most of what we got out of it was really helpful for the team. This week has all been focused around either things that were to change be for the play-testing but we did not have time for or feedback we received, most of the feedback was aimed at how the game was played and not what was in the game.
As the feedback was coming in we noticed one very clear […]

Cleaning up the wave spawning.

Hello! I Am Christofer Mattsson the lead coder in team Leviathan. We are now under ten weeks working on a game called Draxl’s journey.
We are now on the sexto week of production and our game is almost in beta.
This week.
This week I have mostly only continue working on the wave spawning script. I wrote about the wave spawning in my last blog post, so in this one I will talk about another problem I have had.
So let get started […]

Leafy green veg for your fish tank

With the first plant finished, I started to create a second plant as concept art. This time I wanted a plant that was more concentrated with multiple stems as large leaves. I found something that I could start with and began to create the shape. This type of plant has a central base or rock and has multiple large leaves that come up from the center.
The general outline gives this appearance and was a simple way to put together some […]

Game Design 2 – Projectiles

Implementing variation of projectiles.

Losing a Day’s Work

Fuck-nuggets.
Imagine building something wonderful only to have it be unexpectedly knocked down. This was the 9/11 of team Rukh. Let me indulge you. There I was, just finishing what might be the best piece of design work since the pyramids or my Scrum document, when suddenly an update eviscerated my work and took my dreams with it. Some say it was an inside job as it was my lead artist who applied the update, however I assure you this was […]

Which talk should we pick?

One of our still-secret but crazy-awesome speakers is just blasting ideas at us – they have pitched no less than 4 excellent talks so far!
We love them all and can’t seem to pick one! Please help us decide by voting in our poll:
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Thanks for weighing in, and please check out all the conference sessions so far!
Oh, and a pro-tip: Visby is fast running out of hotel beds for the conference dates. Please make […]

Blog 4: Modular branches

In the previous blog entries I have talked about character animations and sprites for different background elements. In this fourth blog entry I will be talking about something a bit more critical for our game Echo.
This weeks feature is branches. Since our setting for the game takes place in a tree, a very important aspect to consider was creating a path for the player. Our team decided that this was to be done using branches. We were to draw some […]

Story scenes

For this week, I have kept on creating scenes for ”Betulla’’ (me and my group will come up with a better name for the game shortly, no worries).  The scenes are supposed to be in the beginning of the game as an introduction together with text and a panoramic animation as a narrative to further spice up the gameplay. What we have thought out to happen in those scenes is shown below on a few sketches made by our game designer:

My […]

Background: The Light Night

Hello, today I’m going to talk about my aesthetic choices when making a background for our game. The environment in our game is depicted as made of stone with some rare trees here and there.
For the atmosphere of the background I inspired myself from the background that is inside the tree right here:

The background I made will be seen because there will be ”cracks/holes” in this inside background. As you can see the mood here is dark but also has that […]

Turtle Defender

Sideproject – A Game of Catch
This is another small game I created in Unity, once again with the main purpose of learning and because creating is fun! I’ve created all of the artwork and design, I’ve had some mentoring assistance with the C# coding and the sounds are downloaded from Freesound.org and Soundbible. If you’d be interested in having a look at the game,  the download link is found here.
 

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