BGP – Day 19.1

Vertex Painting and Tessellation
The sun is shining and springs is here, what better than to spend your time sitting inside, learning about materials and tessellation? At least that is what I did. I wanted to look into that, since our Lead Artist asked me if I knew how to use it, I didn’t, but now I do! Also another thing was mentioned when the programmers had their QA with their teacher. The teacher was worried that we wouldn’t get all the […]

Neon Skies – Week 4

Week 4 started with rework on the drone to make the outer neon light strips larger. We then experimented with different colors and patterns to find something we liked. We knew we wanted something with a simple color scheme like the rest of the environment, almost like the rocks, but lighter in tone. The body also needed to look different from the wings. As such, we experimented with different shades of grey until we stumbled upon […]

Pre-production

The point of this series of blogs will be to explain and archive my workprocess, which means that it’s as much for myself as it is for you, the reader.
So to first describe the project in question: Fast Gear is a racing game which is heavily inspired by formula 1 and dating simulators. The main thing that seperates it from others within its genre is its focus on story and character-interaction between races. It’ll not stop there though, what we […]

Week 4 – Big Game Project – Placeholders

Hello and welcome to yet another week of game development for the game Amenti. This week we tried to set up our server and source share of our UE 4 level. It unfortunately did not end up as planned and a lot of time was spent on making it work. Even though we all had the same brand of computer and were on the same network, it only worked on some computers. In the end, we got it to work, […]

Fast Gear – Week 4

Up until this point and probably for a couple of more weeks my focus have been on doing the AI(Artificial Intelligence) for our game. The AI is not that complicated as of right now. It has a road which it follows using A* which an algorithm for calculating the fastest way to the goal. The area surrounding the road is not made out of the same material so it has a higher value, meaning it costs more to drive on […]

Big Game Project (BGP) 2017

Since a couple of weeks ago now I began the last course of my second year of Game design and Graphics here at Uppsala University – Campus Gotland and is one of the larger courses throughout the whole programme. It’s called Big Game Project and as the name suggest we are going to be working on a game in teams until the end of this semester.
The game me and my team has been working on is called Fast Gear which is, […]

Tredej veckan av utvecklingen, The Summoning

När implementeringen av en tredje kamera som åskådare ska använda sig av vid uppvisning av spelet på Gotland Game Conferans / GGC.
Behövdes ordningen på kamerorna ändras även om man stängde av åskådare kameran så blev den huvud kameran man kolla ifrån.
Så det blev min första arbetas uppgift att ändar på den så att demonens kamera vissas i skärmen när båda spelarna har joinat matchen för demonen och mänskans kamera för den.
Under visa tidpunkter under veckan fick man åter gå å […]

BGP: Refracted Fate – Sliding Doors!

Hi, all readers, I will start focusing more on a single thing that I have worked on and instead write about it a more detailed. So, the number of things I showcase will be lower, but hopefully it will be better quality and more interesting. Anyway, let’s get started! This week I will be talking about the slider mechanic that I have been working on in the game!
 
Sliding, doors and objects!
The way the sliding function has been made is very basic […]

Ny blogg. Big game project

Hej, nu är det dags att blogga igen. Det här inlägget finns bara för att inte förvirra eventuella läsare så de inte tror att det jag gjorde under Space Shooter projektet är det jag gjort under Big Game Project. ALLTSÅ inlägg innan det här inlägget är från en annan kurs. Allt efter det här inlägget är till Big Game Project.

BGP – Day 19

Halfway through BGP
We have finally gotten the server to work for everyone, this means we can start to implement our work into one collective project. Other than that I’ve looked into implementing the animations and working together with one of our programmers/Lead sound. We had some issues with having the character to stay in place when walking as we changed it in unreal. Since it didn’t work we instead choose to change this in the animation program, which worked fine. […]

Big Game Project!

New Year, New Course, New Project
The last thing I posted on this blog was a project we made during our first year, in the program, which was way back in 2015. And now, almost two years later, I’m back at it again with the Big Game Project (BGP). During this course we have eight weeks to take a game all the way from idea to reality. The game will also have has the possibility to be featured on the Gotland […]

Getting started..

Week three in an eight week production is coming to and end. These weeks have been productive yet scary in a way, since it is very hard to tell if you are on the right track both with the game as a whole and with your time schedule.
My role in this new Amenti Game is primarily two things. I am the lead designer, which means planning the mechanics of the game, the feeling of the ”fun” of the game is on me. […]