Helper Bot Movement and Eye Animations

2017-02-16
On their journey into the deep the player and BLUP will end up gaining a small helper-robot as a follower. Its origins are mysterious, and it looks ancient, almost arcane in its design.
The robot will basically function as a warning alarm that lets out a noise, and blinks red with its single eye whenever the player enters the proximity of a hostile creature. So apart from the basic movement animations it also needed separate animations for the eye. When assembling […]

first level

The concept for the game Burn Witch Burn has it split in two parts: the first being an escape from a village after avoiding death, and the second is returning to the nearby castle. The first part ends with a fight with a witch hunter, and the second ends with confronting the final boss, who will be a queen. This gives the game two levels, and we decided pretty early that it could be more interesting to have a path that […]

Crown of Creation: The health bar

Hello! For this week’s sprint, one of my goals was to create a health bar

 
This is how I’ve created this prototype: I copied one of the main character’s legs and used the liquify tool to make it the size and shape I wanted, so that It could fit the shape I wanted while still having the exact characteristics as the main character. I then cleaned it up with a hard round brush the same size as the leg’s outlines. I […]

Structuring the Documents, Week 2

What?
So last week i described how everyone we’re going to use SCRUM. I also told you that some people did not read up on what it is and that kind of leads us to this week’s topics, Structuring the documents. In a project like this, and especially for a project manager, it is not only about the SCRUM chart. Its also about planning meeting, taking notes and with that documenting ideas. All of this is done in different documents to […]

Tether System

This week I worked on a ”tether system” between a teddy bear that is controlled with the mouse and a girl that is controlled with the WASD keys. The goal of the tether system is to render a tether between the two characters to visualize their connection to each other.
The reason why we decided on having a tether between them is because of feedback from the playtest. Our testers didn’t understand why the teddy bear is shooting a projectile towards […]

Animating a farmer

In this week’s post, I want to talk about an animation I made for “Burn Witch Burn” about two weeks ago (more info on the game in last week’s post and probably coming ones).
For my first two animation cycles and their respective sprite-sheets, I opted to focus on the farmer-type enemy first, as they are the most prevalent enemies. Me being the only one in the graphics department of my team, I must focus on the most quintessential graphical elements […]

Post #2 – Swordfish

This week in graphics for my team’s game Selfish I decided to provide additional art for one of the enemies. Joel my team’s game designer had designed an enemy that would charge forward and follow the player. I sat down and brainstormed some ideas of various types of fishes that could fulfill this role. Without a doubt I thought of the swordfish, famous for its long sharp like beak for a mouth, the fish would portray perfectly the actions that […]

Enemy – Frog

After working on the hornet-like ”Hunter” enemy last week, I was tasked with designing another enemy. This time, it was a frog.
I have actually always liked frogs, so I had fun designing and drawing the asset.
Since we are going for quite a fantasy-like world, with a lot of non-realistic color schemes and patterns, I had basically free reign when deciding what it should look like.
Since our game is very dark, I wanted to make sure that the frog would easily […]

Our enemies

Hi, this is one my second blog post, the first one after the alpha presentation and playtesting. I’m gonna talk about one of our base mechanics, the enemies.
In the concept that we are currently working on (Burn witch burn) the main character gets chased by the “mob” an unkillable horde of angry farmers that hunts yo through out the first level. While trying to run away from this unkillable mob, the player will encounter other obstacles and enemies. This enemies […]

Figuring Out the Scope

Hello dear reader and welcome to my second blog post!
One of our main concerns when it comes to our project is figuring out the scope. We simply do not know how much time certain things will take to make and implement and we can therefore not plan very far ahead. We obviously try to do that anyways, but due to our inexperience in projects like these we tend to overestimate how many things we can actually put in the game.
This […]

Week 4

 
This week has been somewhat of a turning point for my group since we feel like we actually have an idea of what the end goal of our game is, for the first time since the start of the project. The alfa prototype is done and now it is time to iterate further and polish everything to the nines! One of my tasks has been to create art for one of the enemies in the game, a mean worm. It […]

Navigating through the darkness

Our game is a very dark one, therefore its important that the player have some means of navigation. In the original concept document, the player was supposed to use some sort of coneshaped sonar fireing strait ahead, but I felt like that might not be engough, at least not for the more open world labyrinth we had in mind. Like for instant, an enemy could sneak up behind you and kill you without you knowing what hit you.
Instead me and […]