Today I added the gas vent element to the game: It’s a nifty gameplay element, although I’ll probably only use it in a couple of places… Frequency, phase, length, etc, all of those can be configured in the editor, which is good from a game design perspective (can see how will they behave without loading […]
Still advancing in the game… This is very time consuming, I keep pushing my standards higher as I’m becoming more adept with my own tools, and get more ideas for how to turn the few elements I have in more interesting stuff… Started a new area, already progressing nicely… The gameplay is a bit different […]
Today has been an horrible day in terms of work, and that translated in a terrible game development process… But, after a lot of grief with (yet again) the pathfinder, here’s the new enemy: These spawn from nodes (until they’re destroyed) and hunt the player down… If they reach him they either hit him, or […]
Today I’ve worked mainly on building the corporate office… as you can see from the screenshot below, I’ve worked with lights a lot: Probably need a better way to display stuff (so I can hide the lights and the invisible blocks, which also cover a lot of scenario). Then, I started placing the enemies, and […]
Finished the lighting system I started yesterday… The results are rather good and easy to use (and no more silly crashes). The light generation is fast enough that I can do it in runtime, when the level loads, which is easier to manage in terms of files (no need to keep an unlit file). Now, […]
A plan is something that exists until the first contact with reality… Tonight I was intending to start the level design for the corporate HQ, but when I started lighting the place I saw the flaw in my plan… Most of the levels I’ve made so far have a very small number of lights… And […]
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 […]
Finally finished the cultist base… Small details were making life hard for me, but it’s done… The final cutscene was very big, and I had some difficulty getting the text right… Also improved the machine gun fire, since it looked terrible in low light circumstances: Next step: another base facility… This time I want to […]
I was having some problems with silly pathfinding on the cultist base… The problem was that the fiery sconces were too low, so the enemies could climb them, which would look silly. For props, I use invisible blocks to stop that from happening, but since the sconces are just pieces of level geometry, that doesn’t […]
This is been very slow going lately… Writing decent dialogues is hard work, and even half-assed ones like mine take forever! I’m drawing to a close in the cultist part of the game, missing four plot moments, and I’m done with the storyline… So, hopefully I’ll be able to finish this part of the development […]