Today I had a friend of mine coming by and seeing the game… He kindly offered to work on the UI of the game, which is awesome. He’s a very talented artist, so we here welcome his help! I’m sure we will go from this: to something that looks good! Now listening to “Universal Migrator, […]
Today I didn’t have much time to work on the game, but it was highly productive… I was trying out different approaches to the visuals on the corporate facility, playing with tilesets and lighting to achieve a proper mood… First, I tried just the classic red lighting: It looks good, but it’s a bit cliché […]
Today I advanced the story a bit more… And would have done much more, if I didn’t hit a silly bug that took me about one hour to figure out, and less than one second to fix… Actually, today was a terrible day for the pathfinding… First, in the pirate lair, I had spawned too […]
Today I added to the story one important character: The Librarian, an information broker that operates in this part of the galaxy. The player will have to go to him to get some information, and (obviously) will have to do some dirty work for him. This cutscene is one of those I’m sad I probably […]
Today I’ve added one more cutscene to the storyline (an important one, too!), and added a new type of enemy: the ninja! I call it ninja, but he’s more of a warrior-cultist kind of thing… but he periodically (or when he takes a lot of damage), he disappears in a puff of smoke, only to […]
Today was very productive… Added a new type of enemy, with a special ability, which is rather cool, and it makes gameplay more varied, and finished a couple of cutscenes… I got to say, working a bit on the game every day for more than a month is really good for morale… not only I […]
Don’t want to talk too much about what I’m doing at this moment (it’s an important moment in the story, and I don’t want to spoil it)… Let’s just say that Steve and the Skydancer go into battle stations: Red alarm light always gives some urgency to the scene, especially if I can find a […]
As usual on Mondays, not much time/energy to work on the game, so I started on the next cutscene that leads to a new phase in the game… Without giving too much away, I needed a ship: And I needed it to be bigger than Skydancer, but the map doesn’t have enough space for it… […]
Continuing the path through the game, I had to build one more temple… First problem I had: because of the procedural generation and random factor, the temple was spawning in a cave planet, which meant that all was dark, so any cutscene would have to account for the possibility of this happen, which makes matters […]
Today I finished the grenades, including the shock grenade… For that, I had to create a new electricity effect! Was a bit hard fine-tuning it (one of the reasons I’m a terrible artist is that I’m very lazy!), but it was well worth it: It looks really cool in movement (need to start making videos […]