Designing the basic beat for Dragon’s Song

The first 3 weeks of the game development group assignment is over and my Team 16 has started to get into the groove with a working engine and the most essential art and FX assets in place for our pre Alpha milestone this Thursday.
This has been my first opportunity to take the helm of the Sound & FX department in earnest and actually produce some sounds. The first semester was highly theoretical and conceptual which left little room for me […]

Designing enemies for a space shooter game

I am working on a space shooter game together with five other people. It is a music game about a dragon named Riff that cannot spit fire. Instead she can spit sound waves to create music. The other dragons are bullying her for that. But justice will come! When the planet is invaded by strange crystal beings, the dragons’ only hope are the sound waves that only Riff can create.
My role in the project is producer and graphic artist. Right now […]

Speldesign #1

Jag har arbetat med animation till vårt spel. I tidigare kurs (spelprogrammering 1) så lärde vi oss hur man kan använda sig av ett sprite sheet så att man kan spela upp olika bilder med under en tid. Så det jag har gjort är att jag lärde mig från en tutorial från internet hur man skrev koden och sedan använde jag mig av den för att kunna spela upp en animation. I vår tidigare kod så kunde man kalla på […]

Game Development Log 1.

This post will be about a specific artifact in our game, Fancy Mansion.
Specifically, the design-choices and drawing of the moneybag, used as an item to be picked up to increase the players overall score in the game.
Fancy Mansion is a game about picking things up and increasing your own monetary value by stealing items. In order to represent a valuable items, first of all we chose iconic objects to symbolize this. The first object, the most basic design, was a […]

Green Warden: Week 4 – player character animation

I didn’t update my blog last week, apologies! Things have been very busy lately.
This week I’ve been working with animating the player character.
The player character is a dryad whose goal is to protect the forest where they live. The forest is being invaded by goblins who wants to destroy everything and build factories there instead. They want to destroy the life tree, which is the source of life of everything in the forest. As the dryad, you don’t have any […]

Week 4 Game Development.

It is pre-alpha week. The team has been working hard to make our MVP for this weeks deadline. The main point of the MVP is to show the core mechanics. As MVP do not really need fully animated sprites I did not have any pressure on me. Although being ahead of schedule is always a good thing.
Today I made the animated sprite for our main character the mole.

So here is the walking animation for the mole. The perspective of […]

Week 4, Game design

This is the 4th week of our group project and 3rd week using scrum. For those who are not familiar with the scrum method, it is a way of planning projects by breaking them down in to smaller parts and making weekly deadlines. This also helps noticing where problems start to stack up and where deadlines needs to be changed. The team using scrum estimates their work hours and then see how long it actually took when finished. This way […]

Game Development – Introduction: Week 2

So week 2! During week 2 we continued working on our Scrum-document and worked on a visual style for the game.
We decided to go for a tropical theme for our game partially so that we could draw on themes like the exploitation of rainforests and the era of colonization and partially because it would allow us to work with very saturated colors for the plants and protagonist and contrast against the enemy side’s metallic shades of grey and brown.
We needed to pick a style that […]

Projektiler och sådant

Jag tog på mig uppgiften att bygga torn och projektilklasser.
Till att börja med kan jag konstatera att jag till en början gapade efter för mycket. I fredags fick jag reda på att vi skulle visa upp något på måndagen, vilket ledde till en hel del panik och för lite sömn under helgen. I slutändan hann jag endå inte skriva klart dem.
Sedan kan jag också konstatera att man inte ska gapa efter för lite. Efter vårt möte på måndagen hade […]

Progressing in colors

Hi!
I have been busy with a lot of schoolwork lately, doing different assignments and not much of them are aesthetic things which I could  present here.
I am working hard right now on a concept and hope that I get a “green light” to do it, I have failed this far to get it done right and still are struggling with it. The thing is that I have a hard time explaining it in English so that it can become understandable.
Anyways, I have […]

2D-Graphics, Theory and Application II: Week 1 + Week 2

First week in the new graphics course! We pretty much picked up where we left it off with 2D-Graphics, Theory and Application I.
Week 1:
The first week consisted of repeating some perspective practices. For our home assignment that week we had to first, draw our kitchen in either 1- or 2-point-perspective and then redesign it according to an existing IP. I have to admit that with the project taking up so much of our time and with the assignments being more […]

Psst

lets see if this work… yea