Scrap Pirates: In the middle of GGC

So, we are in the middle of GGC, Gotland Game Conference. Well, maybe not in the middle, more like the two thirds through, only one more day out of three. We are showing of Scrap Pirates and a lot of people seem to like it. Tomorrow is the last day, which means that the deadline for voting and the following award ceremony will be held. I would be really happy if we were to win some award for Scrap Pirates […]

Materials – Big Game Project

While the set up for the space levels were almost at an completion, the space itself lacked movement and looked rather flat. The group discussed whether there should be light sources placed on certain celestial bodies or if sprite sheets should be used to animate them. However, since there was only one week away from GGC, creating spritesheets would take up much more time than we could afford and using lights in space would take up much of the processing […]

Another good week

Lot of things done this week as shown by the image which is my task list for this week, everything i did i added to the list and then checked off when they got done.
The biggest thing of this week was to heavily simplify our spell system inputs. rather than have each spell be a combination of stick inputs, they now have one direction each assigned to them. Up to do one spell, Down to do another, etc. While […]

BGP – Scrap Pirates – Week 8

Today is the final day on our project before GGC.
We’re all working on finishing some final things and fixes before the day ends. Some final effects have to be implemented, our poster for the show-floor must be finished and printed, a final score-screen is being fixed and some main-menu animation is being edited, among other things.
During the last few days I’ve finished a short introduction sequence that will play at the beginning of the game when the players press the […]

Scrap Pirates – Big Game Project – Blog Post #6

This week was the last week before Gotland Game Conference, and therefore the last week of working on the game for the BGP course.

Most work was focused on fixing bugs and finishing the enemies for the GGC level. A results screen was created, with text constructed from an image and achievements popping up if you have reached certain amounts of stats. The enemies also blink in red when hit, since there was no feedback on this matter before.
A lot […]

Week 6 of production: Animating armless people… that stuff is really difficult.

Hello everyone! Week 6 has now passed and things are getting closer and closer to getting finished for the GGC.
I’m going to talk a little about what I’ve been doing this week, and that’s animation of the main character. I had animated the rough animations for the character a week or so before this one, but those were placeholders, and needed to get changed or polished. So this week was only polishing and creating new animations that were needed for […]

Week 5 of production: More logos… and not much more.

Hello everyone, late post for week five of production… where not a lot of things happened.
So during week 5 I had to work a lot with the presentation for the GGC as well as finishing up the logo for the game. The week before I had made several different iterations of the logo, but with no success. We wanted a logo that would represent our concept of wind. I took the cloudy shape from the earlier iteration and ditched the […]

Big Game Week 8

Last week i worked on animations for the Ghoul and spell effects. Sadly I dont have any footage of my work but i will link to the trailer and show some screenshots of the game.
They way we worked with the animations was that i made a firstpass animation that jsut have the basic poses and movement in them. Then William our lead artist who is also the best animator in the team, worked on making them look much better. We […]

BGP – Scrap Pirates – Week 7

This past week I’ve been working on the trailer for Scrap Pirates, and finished it yesterday. We wanted to keep the trailer simple, using the in-game assets and gameplay footage, as we didn’t have the time to create a lot of new animations. The only “new” character animation in the trailer is a short pointing-animation consisting of three frames, where I just changed the arm on the idle-pose.
I began working on the trailer without the music, as we didn’t have […]

Big Game Project; Week 7

The week of beta
First of the late post was due to the fact that we had been working overtime the whole week as we fell behind schedule. We had a lot of deadlines that we had to complete and then realizing at the final hour that the presentation deadline was closing in. That one took a lot more time than anticipated and left no time for posting in this blog.
Anyway, the beta session did not go as planned, just before […]

I haven’t written a blogpost in HOW long?!

Oh Christ, i thought i had written a post at least last Wednesday or something.
So anyways, basically everything in the last post is now invalid, we had full overtime all of last week and the game is starting to come together. Some of my own main progress include: throwing the previous changes to Harakat out the window, implementing a 3D HUD, making the Lock-on system target the enemy closest to the center of the screen rather than the closes to […]

Week 7 – Tamarrion – Post-Beta

The world of Tamarrion, created by the talented Måns Löf

Post-Beta
We’ve been so.insanely.god.damn.busy this last week. We’ve crunched 4 out of 7 days this week. On the upside, A LOT of things have happened with the game. It looks gorgeous now!
The game is basically finished in the sense of being a vertical slice. This means that all features we want to be in the game is done and ready to be tested on a large audience. What we’ve got left […]