Today I carried on with the storyline development, but I hit a snag pretty fast… When I started to develop the grenades, the idea was to have a boss enemy that had the machine gun and the flashbang grenade, and to alternate between them… The problem was the way I was making the firing decisions […]
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 […]
Worked on the grenades today. Finished the explosive grenade, and got the flashbang and stun grenades working properly, just missing the shock grenade (it’s like a stun grenade but for electronics). Our Fire Monitoring keeps an eye on your business, so you have time to run your business correctly. It’s never too early to be […]
Today I started by adding some stars to the background of the asteroid… In the process, I found a bug… Can you see if you can spot it? And this is fixed: Very hard to detect, unless it was moving (you can see above the stars!)… There was a problem with the ceiling UVs, which […]
Today I didn’t have much time for game development, so I just built the cutscene for when the player finds the the first pirate lair. Was a bit tricky to get right, mostly because I was uninspired… The text flowed all right, but the camera angles were tricky, specially because the pirate lair is not […]
Let me tell you a story… As I said yesterday, I felt a real drop in performance with the pirate lair, and I couldn’t figure out what was the issue. The normal course of action (if you don’t have a decent profiler or are too lazy to find a free one) is to shut down […]
Today I revisited the pirate lairs, adding a lot of new stuff, like rock walls, props, loot at the end and fixing a lot of small bugs. In the screenshot above, I removed the roof to be able to look inside. I’m having a performance issue somewhere on the lairs… Not sure if it is […]
Today I advanced a bit more in the storyline… It’s going well, almost no actual code written today, just writing text and scripting the cutscenes… Took another first person screenshot… They look cool, think the next game in this series will be first person! Now listening to “Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi” by […]
Today I didn’t have much development time, so I just decided to play the game a bit and balance some stuff, mainly costs of equipment… The thing that’s been bugging me the most about the costs is that I feel the fuel cells (which allow me to travel to another planet) are too expensive… I […]
Today I wasn’t feeling like working on storyline stuff (need to grind for some alloy to get to the next planet in the story)… As I was talking this afternoon with my colleagues, I playfully said that I had to try the game in first person mode one of these days… And “one of these […]