Spellcaster Studios

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Category Archives: Development

Load, save and persistence

  Work is carrying on a good pace… I’ve been focusing on technology, getting everything ready so that when I start working on the game code for real I can dedicate all my energy to it… As I see it, only the UI specific functionality is missing from the technology side, besides a good, healthy […]

Progress update…

Although there hasn’t been much updates in the blog, work has been very productive lately… First of all, Rincewind has started modeling the new “Grey” character, based on this concept I may have posted this before, but there you go… He has a more “wildman” streak to it, which is a bit more different than […]

Has it been more than a month?!…

Yep, it has… Between Christmas and work overload afterwards, we haven’t exactly worked a lot on “Grey”… We haven’t stopped, it’s just that the output rate wasn’t that big, and even when it was, it wasn’t “show-worthy”… Anyway, we’re back to blogging! We came into the new year with extra motivation to finish a game […]

Throwing the towel…

After almost 34 hours of actual work, we’re throwing the towel… Loads of small problems kept us from creating this game…  our megalomania, the tools weren’t as mature as I’d hoped for this kind of thing (and because it’s part of a big framework, it’s a bit unwieldy)… The art was well on its way […]

Not going well…

Well, this is a broad statement… art is going very good indeed… Code, not so much… The SurgePlayer wasn’t ready for this type of “intense” competition… there are still loads of things that aren’t working properly in the system, and as such, I loose a lot of time trying to get it to work properly […]

Early start…

We started early today and managed to do a ton of things already… Rincewind finished the player character, a forlorn spirit of sorts (with a particle system, because they’re awesome!), and we managed to build the portal system, which will transfer the player from one playfield to another… I’ve written the intro, which is harder […]

Getting late…

  Well, the progress wasn’t overwhelming in the last 9 hours or so, but it’s almost 5am and we should get some sleep… I’m starting to do silly mistakes! Anyway, we have the first scenario (which acts as a gateway to the rest): I also have the cutscene and text system (very simple stuff, no […]

Productive but slow…

These first hours have been very productive, but progress is slower than I wanted… At least, we already have some character movement (with placeholder art while Rincewind finishes off his stuff). Character can be controlled with the mouse (for heading) and walk around with WASD (or arrow keys)… He can also jump around. Collision detection […]

Theme is up!

And the themes that was allocated to us was “Forgiveness” and “Message in a Bottle”… And I was feeling like doing a space game! Anyway, we’re already bouncing around… We’re going to do a 3rd person adventure game (hard in 48 hours…), in which the player will have to right some wrongs in the past […]

Indie Speed Run

  Since I haven’t been able to work in games lately (been too tired to get home and program), me and Rincewind decided to take part of of the Indie Speed Run to get rid of the no-game-dev jitters I’ve been feeling… It’s a competition for a team of 1 to 4 people to develop […]