Friday, February 17, 2017
Friday, April 5, 2013
What I've been up to
As you may or may not notice i've been absent, I'm just posting to say that I'm still alive and
much has been happening. I got a mononucleosis virus, went to the hospital, they gave me
the wrong meds and i've ended up in bed/restrained for over a month.
After that I've been focusing my work on my dissertation because, well... I was a month late
in work right? And just as I had ended a few docs I had to start working as a trainee in a company where
I'll be developing a mobile app and do some research for my dissertation.
Anyway, I've decided to put my project on hold and work on Seelentanz on weekends. We
don't have much work done yet but we are starting to shape the game. I've done an
inventory and i've been working with an mixing box similar to diablo's. I might put screenshots on
Seelentanz soon.
About OON I had lot of awesome ideas and i might end up changing the geoscape a little bit for something
more like civilization. I think it will make the gameplay experience more interesting. Don't worry,
I'll try not fill it with useless researches/resources... in my perspective everything in the game needs
to have a purpose for usage
Meanwhile I'll keep working and researching for my thesis where I'll be dealing with cross-platform
development for mobile devices and medical topics/techs such as openEHR.
Friday, October 26, 2012
Clouds and shadows
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| Picture of the moving shadows and clouds/mist |
Just giving a quick update on what I've been doing...
So I've been trying to figure out ways on how I can bring some more "feeling"
to the game, and so I came up with the idea of adding moving clouds/mist and shadows
and this is the result.
Can you see the shadow behind the player?
The basic idea is that the player has an area around him where he can listen the surroundings, so he knows something is there, but its hard to understand exactly what it is...
I also found out that the base rooms should be organized in some other way resulting in a remade of the whole structure. But at least now the game supports room's with different shapes. It's almost like tetris...
Thursday, October 4, 2012
Lots of little news
As you might notice I've been remodeling my blog and turn it into a personal presentation page. This is due the preparation to start working on my thesis, since I didn't had much time I've decided to merge it with the blog. I would be much more comfortable if I had a good host with PHP and database support but this will have to do for now.
So I've added a page with personal info, another page with many of my projects, I probably won't be adding all of them since some are really old and I have some sort of better project using the same technologies.
Since I've add a project demo page what kind of person would I be if I didn't add a OON video? Be aware that 90% of the 2D visuals are going to be replaced once I've found a 2d artist, most of those assets were found in internet... and believe me when I say that finding isometric content is really hard. Meanwhile you can watch in the video the geoscape, base and the player new perspective which will hide the terrain and the creatures outside of player field of view.
I'm also glad to announce that I've found a Musician/Sound Designer that is now helping me with the project. He already started working on 'OON' and I've created some controllers that will help both of us adding music and sound into the game. If you want check more info on him go check his twitter here.
While adding sound content to the game I've found that XNA supports a tech XAct which is design to give some independence to sound designers working with XNA but it seemed lots of work to learn XACT just to add some sound effect and since I've already done some code to assist us we have discarded that for now.
Finally I've been adding to the game the ability to import creatures and weapons into the game by XML which, once its done, I will be able to easily adjust it to allow me to read any kind of information I want or need. This is important because will give the players freedom to add more and more content into the game just by editing an xml, things like special ammunition, weapons, creatures with specific behaviors, tech trees, etc... Also don't worry because if it becomes too much information i might just make another app to be even easier to add content into the game ;)
So I've added a page with personal info, another page with many of my projects, I probably won't be adding all of them since some are really old and I have some sort of better project using the same technologies.
Since I've add a project demo page what kind of person would I be if I didn't add a OON video? Be aware that 90% of the 2D visuals are going to be replaced once I've found a 2d artist, most of those assets were found in internet... and believe me when I say that finding isometric content is really hard. Meanwhile you can watch in the video the geoscape, base and the player new perspective which will hide the terrain and the creatures outside of player field of view.
I'm also glad to announce that I've found a Musician/Sound Designer that is now helping me with the project. He already started working on 'OON' and I've created some controllers that will help both of us adding music and sound into the game. If you want check more info on him go check his twitter here.
While adding sound content to the game I've found that XNA supports a tech XAct which is design to give some independence to sound designers working with XNA but it seemed lots of work to learn XACT just to add some sound effect and since I've already done some code to assist us we have discarded that for now.
Finally I've been adding to the game the ability to import creatures and weapons into the game by XML which, once its done, I will be able to easily adjust it to allow me to read any kind of information I want or need. This is important because will give the players freedom to add more and more content into the game just by editing an xml, things like special ammunition, weapons, creatures with specific behaviors, tech trees, etc... Also don't worry because if it becomes too much information i might just make another app to be even easier to add content into the game ;)
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Shine and Seelentanz
So, its been awhile since I made a post here.
I'm keeping myself quiet about some stuff that has been happening because I don't like to rush myself into taking fast conclusions.
Anyway I've decided to participate into Gamelopers 2012 which is a contest allowing participants to compete with their works on Java, Windows Phone or Qt.
I have already finish my work for sometime now but it's not exactly has I had initially planned. I could/might do some updates later to make it more interesting. Have some screenshots:
You check the rest in here
I made this game while I was working on several projects and in a month... its not an awesome game but I think its playable.
On other news I've put myself on a journey to learn to work with Unity. I think this will be awesome since I've never work with a framework on 3d games or anything similar and its a path to learn something more on game development by myself.
This is the game/team I've joined
Its a friendly group fighting to learn more and achieve their personal dreams. We still have few members and some don't have much experience like myself (I've just start learning Unity) but if we gather a motivated team who knows where we'll end up :P
I'm keeping myself quiet about some stuff that has been happening because I don't like to rush myself into taking fast conclusions.
Anyway I've decided to participate into Gamelopers 2012 which is a contest allowing participants to compete with their works on Java, Windows Phone or Qt.
I have already finish my work for sometime now but it's not exactly has I had initially planned. I could/might do some updates later to make it more interesting. Have some screenshots:
You check the rest in here
I made this game while I was working on several projects and in a month... its not an awesome game but I think its playable.
On other news I've put myself on a journey to learn to work with Unity. I think this will be awesome since I've never work with a framework on 3d games or anything similar and its a path to learn something more on game development by myself.
This is the game/team I've joined
Its a friendly group fighting to learn more and achieve their personal dreams. We still have few members and some don't have much experience like myself (I've just start learning Unity) but if we gather a motivated team who knows where we'll end up :P
Sunday, July 1, 2012
Character vision
So I've had some time and, being anxious to make the player vision, I finally was able to investigate a little how this is done and start making some experiences...
The main idea is to make the player only being aware where his eyes are point to, so if you look a way you wont be able to know whats coming from your back. I'm also thinking in adding hearing which will allow the player to hear noises in the proximity of his/her character. I think that might bring some panic to the players since they can't know for sure where the noise is coming.
The main idea is to make the player only being aware where his eyes are point to, so if you look a way you wont be able to know whats coming from your back. I'm also thinking in adding hearing which will allow the player to hear noises in the proximity of his/her character. I think that might bring some panic to the players since they can't know for sure where the noise is coming.
Friday, June 1, 2012
lvlML alpha editor
So I finally sent out a video for the level editor... its far from a complete work but its a start and you can already export lvlML files.
So this work was made by myself and Joana Martins
heres the video:
hopefully I will publish the application and lvlML schema once I have a more functional version...
So this work was made by myself and Joana Martins
heres the video:
hopefully I will publish the application and lvlML schema once I have a more functional version...
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