Fourth Week of Big Game Project

The fourth week of big game project has ended and we have gotten a lot of things done.
I personally have been taken a deeper look into the unity particle system and also made some assets for the level designers to use.
I will be talking about the Ramp Building Kit in this post.
Since we need smooth surfaces for the player to ride upon the logical solution was to let the level designers make the ramps and pipes the way they wanted […]

Big Game: Week 2 and 3

It’s been a while longer since last time, due to the easter holidays. This post will cover the three days before easter and the four days this week. Instead of going through everything I did on a day to day basis, like I did in the previous posts, I’ll select the things that I felt were the most important.
 

I’ve implemented all the different matching powerups. There are three in total. You should be familiar with the match four powerup since […]

Big Game Project Week 4

This week i have continued my work on the level progression of the game as well as various feedback for different features of the game.
I started the week out by doing some ground work and thinking on what would be the best way for me to do the level progression of the game, the level progression involves having doors that restrict the player from either proceeding onto a level before the prior level has been completed as well as locking […]

Rubber Crossbow

This post is a bit late, we finished this project a few weeks ago, and I’m now working on an entirely different project that I hope to write some about in the future. However, I still wanted to post this final artifact report/description thing that I wrote. Good day.
For the main characters primary weapon, we chose a crossbow that fires needles. I didn’t put that very much effort into designing the the looks of the weapon, I simply went for a […]

Prop making

This week I have been focusing on making props for the levels. Some props I have done from start to finish, and some I have taken over from another team member. Modelling and UV-mapping in 3DS max, doing textures in Photoshop CS6, and finally creating materials and putting it all together in Unity.

A few of the props from this week.
There has been a few engine specific problems along the way, that probably slowed down the process. One was when making […]

Prop making

This week I have been focusing on making props for the levels. Some props I have done from start to finish, and some I have taken over from another team member. Modelling and UV-mapping in 3DS max, doing textures in Photoshop CS6, and finally creating materials and putting it all together in Unity.

A few of the props from this week.
There has been a few engine specific problems along the way, that probably slowed down the process. One was when making […]

NGUI – Big Game Project

This week, I have spent some time cleaning up a lot of code to make it more readable for others and fixing a lot of bugs. In our card game there are three main piles where cards go trough each turn. The main deck, the hand and the discard pile. Players draw cards and put them in to their hands and then discards them by playing them and when the deck has no cards, the discard pile is shuffled in to the deck again. We had […]

Big Game Project – Week 3&4

I didn’t write a blog post last week cause it was holiday and I forgot about it after travelling home during the weekend, but I’ll make a double one now.
I feel like development slowed down somewhat after the first two weeks, but I believe this is mainly because of the earlier programming being such huge features in the game and every small task meant progress and impact in the current build of the game. For example every couple of hours […]

Ready for Alpha – Week 3

The Alpha is ready to go, we’re implemented the key features for the tutorial at the beginning of the game.
The main assignment I’ve had this week was to fill the terrain with vegetation, placing trees, rocks, blueberry bushes, mushrooms, grass and initial textures.
It has been a diffucult job, although I didn’t think through where to put every asset because it is the alpha. I will.. later in the process place the environment assets more thought out across the terrain, thinking […]

A Slow “Big Game Project” Week

This week passed by really fast and not much work was done. First two days I finished UV-texturing the commander him self (not the building) and I was really pleased by the final results but then I was assigned a new task, to 3D-model a fountain. At each teams base there is supposed to be some sort of holy sculpture of a troll healing the players close to it.
I started of modeling it and finishing the UV-texture. I even made […]

ERA – Week 4 of Production

This has been another tough week with much of the focus going towards trying to fix malfunctions and crashes in unity. Monday my entire game inexplicably crashed after I entered the game scene, we found no clue to the cause of this, and everything was working fine on the other ends of the project so what I ended up doing was removing the entire project, after making a backup, and then download it again from the asset server, manually copying and […]

Big game project – E.R.A – Eternal Resonance : Arena – Post 2

Our work on the graphical part of ERA has been running smooth, the other two has been working really swift and so we’ve gotten a lot of the content checked off our list. Almost all models for the game is done and now on we will have a lot of texturing and particle effects to create. After the quality time with the graphics teachers we came to the conclusion that i had to write a style guide for our game, […]