Since releasing the early development trailer of Gym Empire I’ve been getting a lot of enthusiastic and great feedback. One of the main pieces of feedback I’ve had is around the graphical look of the game. I always intended to update the graphics, specifically around the character design but I’ve decided that the sooner I …
Game Development So Far Progress on Gym Empire this week has been great. The character assets and animation have moved on quite nicely, I was worried they would eat up a lot more time than they have. The progress however was at the cost of doing any work on the Staff behaviour and UI that …
Recap In part 2 we talked about picking a game idea, picking your tools and finding further motivation. If you’ve gotten to this point then you have all the ingredients you need to put in the hard work and get your game made. The tricky part now is finding the time to use those ingredients …
Game Development So Far Hi everyone, it’s been another really productive and rewarding week for Gym Empire. There’s a long way to go but it is already starting to pick up a lot of steam! A lot of that has been to do with the tasks I set myself for the last week so we’ll …
Game Development Hi everyone! Apologies for the distinct lack of blog content over the past few weeks. There’s really no excuse but I’ve been focusing most of my spare time on getting Gym Empire up to a standard for a teaser trailer and some behind the scenes work towards some early marketing as well as …
I’ve gotta admit I’m finding myself up against a bit of a brick wall recently. The animation side of things started really well but as I’ve tried to perfect it it’s gotten harder and harder. Game Development So Far For the past two weeks I’ve been struggling trying to get the Animator.MatchTarget function to work. …
So yesterday’s attempt at a progress update turned into a story about seeing the northern lights, I’ll try and stay on track today! Game Development So Far Progress over the past couple of weeks has been steady but slow. There’ve been a few family events that have been going on which has meant I’ve not …
It’s been a while since I’ve written about Project ZATO and tweets of its progress are quite thin on the ground. To keep you all in the loop and up to date with what’s going on I thought it would be a good time to provide a status update. At the outset, Project ZATO is …
Plenty of progress on Gym Empire this week but not a lot that really translates into anything tangible I can describe. I’ve been continuing to focus on the animation aspects in terms of stringing animations together to make activities look more realistic. In doing this I realised it was a good point to add in …
Last week saw quite a bit of decent progress on Gym Empire both from a technical point of view as well as the momentum I’ve managed to pick up. This time last month (and the tail end of last year) I felt like I was up against a brick wall with every development task on …
