A week with SCRUM

Welcome to my second blogpost, this post will mainly focus on the management side of things. I’m going to explain how we are working with scrum, everything from how we plan each sprint and what is happening on a daily basis.
Monday – Sprint planning
The team usually gathers on Mondays to discuss what we want to achieve during the sprint. We look in the product backlog (which I wrote about in my previous post), in the backlog we have defined the sprint goals for […]

Week 2 – Backgrounds

A couple of weeks ago I was asked to make background concepts for our Selfish game. Since it is a game about a fish in an aquarium I first drew some quick suggestions on how the aquarium could look. Above you can see some of my concepts I made in Photoshop and PaintTool SAI. The pictures on the left are the same picture except the one above has a green filter over it. I thought it would look more like you […]

Background in the making

For the two last weeks, I have been creating the background for a game called ”Crown of Creation” that I have been developing together with my group.
The background that I was to make is supposed to be set where the player operates in the game, which is the inside of a crystal tree. What I needed to convey for the inside background art was a stone-material on the edges that would resemble the bark, and crystal material on the inside, kind of […]

One boss becomes two

Stella Crawford from Team Nazgul here!
In this blog entry I’m going to continue on the topic of redesigning the bosses for Burn Witch, Burn. Last week I talked about the Witch Hunter and mentioned the final boss who ended up splitting into two halves and becoming a queen in our interpretation.
I made these designs last week but I haven’t done much else than cleaning up animation frames this week, which isn’t very interesting to write or read about so I […]

Fishy concept art

This week I will be writing about and show the concept art I made in a very early stage of the project. I had responsible for creating concept art for all the fish, both Stephen and the enemies.
What I mostly did was to quick sketch different ideas with traditional pen and paper, I did not do very detailed concept since it is just concept. Since we discussed what style the group wanted to go with, which was a cartoony style, I had to […]

The Week Of Concepts

This week has been the week of concepts. So the most of the work that has been happening this week is the creation of some ideas for the remaining enemies in our game, this is so that it will be easier to create the sprites for the enemies that are left for the coming weeks. I made three different enemy concepts to be exact.
The process has been quite easy to actually draw them, but it’s the creation of the different […]

Second post, fish game

Hi again. My name is Ludvig and I am the lead designer in team shadhavar. This time I will be talking about the powerups in our game, which in our case happen to be different types of weapons. I both coded and designed the weapon powerups for the game.
In an earlier week of the project I had asked the artists for some different types of weapons for the player. I also told them that it was important that the weapons […]

Post α post – Change and Refine

Well then, that’s the alpha over.
Now what will we talk about today?
Mainly the second enemy (again). And the importance of feedback. As, this week was all about tweaking the enemy, refining the code it used, and improving upon what we had.
 
The alpha testing that was conducted on the Monday (13/2-17) this week gave some excellent feedback. Having a good balance of both direct and mixed reviews on different aspects of the game.
In my case, I was mainly interested in the […]

Adding sounds – Week 2

Today was the Alpha presentation day! Excitement! We saw all the games that are currently in progress, and it was amazing how creative people can be, coming up with different interpretations on the same design document. It also felt good noticing that your feedback was taken into consideration, right after the testing day.
I will write today about the sound that I implemented in the game. I will continue this post by explaining why I chose those sounds and how I implemented […]

Blog 2

 
This week I have worked with making something we in our group chose to call “health visual visual”. To be honest I don’t really remember why it got that name, but it is basically the HP of the player. Even though we have instant death when the player gets hit by a projectile, the player gets reborn (often because they want to use a powerup) and in order to balance it out we decided that you can’t be reborn too […]

Feedback, back to back.

 

Intro
Hello, this is going to be both a graphics and a coding post, sort of.
This week there wasn’t really a single asset that I wanted to talk about, but more of a theme. I spent most of this week implementing various types of effects to provide the player with feedback. Feedback is important for the game because it helps teach players game mechanics and reinforces them without the need for words, a tutorial or prolonged trial and error. I’ll talk about each […]

First blog post on Draxl’s journey

Hello! I am Christofer Mattsson the lead coder in team Leviathan. Our prodject right now is under ten weeks make a game called draxl’s journey.
This is my first blog post on this project so I am going to explain what the game is and our goals with it.
Draxl’s is a casual space shooter where you play as a spaceship that explore the beautiful space. But other civilizations are scared of you, so when you get close to their planet they […]