Upgrades

This week I have been working on developing the background image since it was very flat and boring and did not really blend with the other environmental elements. This was also true for the totem pole and we have gotten feedback stating that we should do something more with it. So I gave the totem pole some highlights and shadows that also gave the coloured blocks some texture. The background I gave some texture by adding old looking stone tiles […]

Levels

So we made it through Alpha and have two weeks to make the game ready for beta where it will be practically done. We made some changes to the project, first of all the player now controls a car instead of a humanoid, this was done as both our graphical group members had to quit the motion capture course and animating a car is considerably simpler than a running person. The second change is that we will be using pre-made […]

Levels

So we made it through Alpha and have two weeks to make the game ready for beta where it will be practically done. We made some changes to the project, first of all the player now controls a car instead of a humanoid, this was done as both our graphical group members had to quit the motion capture course and animating a car is considerably simpler than a running person. The second change is that we will be using pre-made […]

Slightly Coded – Potbellied King – Dev Post 6

I should’ve posted this sooner… oh well, I’ll go over what happened the last few days here instead.
On thursday we prepared for the Alpha and the playtesting by adding a bunch of features and straightening out some of the glitches. The features added where things such as proper death, victory conditions, sound and a score screen (not a final version though). The main glitch fixed was the one that stopped the player from losing the game.
On friday the Alpha presentation […]

Alpha Update

I thought I would just give you a quick update of how the Alpha presentation for our GGC project, went. So yesterday we first held a short presentation, covering the original concept, changes that had been made and what had been going well and not so well. After that we got to show the game to the audience before getting feedback from the three teachers present. As usual it was Oskar (Lead Designer) and I that presented, we got to […]

Alpha Week

This week has been busy as usual, we started out Monday morning with going up on stage to practice our GGC presentations. It went rather well, we definitely need to prepare more and keep working on our presentation but it seemed as we had gotten further with our presentation than some of the other teams. The point of this presentation was to show what we had ready at the moment and get some valuable feedback on what we might want […]

The Logotype

In this new design I used previous experience that I gained from creating the banner and tried to apply it to the creation of our group logo.
First i made a lot of sketches of different styles and layouts, i filled a whole paper to add a lot of variations:

Sketching for a logotype

I asked the group which one they prefered and that ended up being the puzzle ball.
My first question was how i could design a puzzle ball by using Photoshop, […]

Slightly Coded – Potbellied King – Dev Post 5

Today I started working on the HUD, I didn’t do as much progress as I’d hoped for so I guess I’ll have to work some extra tonight to make up for it. I hate crunching so I’m probably going to take a few breaks to sleep.
Another issue present is the fact that we have to combine our projects into one single for the Alpha presentation. Right now we have some trouble syncing it all toghether meaning that we need to […]

The project

It has been a while since my last post! Working on the first drafts for all the animations and map objects takes up most of my time right now. The focus for us artists on the project has been to create as much placeholder graphic as possible to fill out the alpha version of the game, these placeholders then works as the foundation for the final product. 
The best thing about working with first and second drafts and placeholder graphics, is […]

Attracting people; A second try

I wasnt that pleased of the last result i had regarding the banner, so i dug around and got a second chance in creating a new one.
I consulted Nicodemus (A guest lecturer in the Game design program) about my banner and he gave me some good pointers. My previous banner lacked a good construction, the main focus in the picture fell on the middle part of the picture where the “&” sign was located. And applying the characters to the […]

Slightly Coded – Potbellied King – Dev. Post 4

WELL! Last post I said that I would post the very next day about what I’d done but… I kind of forgot. So I’m posting today instead, hopefully this won’t be a thing that happens far too often.
So we had another Quality Time with Marcus yesterday and it went alot better than the last one (that’s not saying alot though since last time was rather abyssmal) we had far more to show and most of the group members were there […]

Getting it together

We had our weekly Quality Time meeting with Marcus today and we was not satisfied with our work since the lest meeting. Hopefully this will be a good motivator for the entire group.
Today i worked on adjusting the RPM slider. My first version had the slider button to be placed at the same X coordinate as the current rotation speed divided by a thousand. This worked for a simple test to make sure the slider could move from input but […]