Game Development So Far Hello all! Sorry for the two week silence! No real excuses other than being busy and making the most of this amazing weather we’re having in the UK. I also took my Dad and son to the British Formula 1 Grand Prix this weekend and we had an absolutely amazing time! …
Game Development So Far Hey all! Super late update this week but it’s for a good reason! First of all let’s look at last week’s plans and progress · Look at options for clothing – after looking at my options I’ve currently settled on the idea of handling clothes through the colouring of the textures. …
Game Development Continuing the trend of focusing on visual and aesthetics, the latest round of updates to Gym Empire focuses on the look of the characters. It wasn’t too long ago that we last addressed the characters to choose the best base models to use. In true agile fashion, we are now back at working …
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Game Development Hi everyone, let’s get straight into it! Last week I set out to: Create all variations of hairstyles and facial hair for male and female – after a bit of messing around with the Blender Sculpt mode I finally figured out how to modify the hair meshes to make the different variations. I’m …
Game Development So Far This week has been quite busy as I’ve taken on quite a few side tasks in terms of building up the Gym Empire community on top of the existing work tasks. Ultimately I’ve ended up focusing on just one of the tasks I’d planned as the visual side of things tends …
Game Development So Far Hey Spartans! What a great week it’s been productivity wise! Also I had an absolute blast at the Intel Buzz Workshop which I’ll go into in another blog post later this week. Refine equipment code – The equipment code has now been overhauled to work more like the client code i.e. …
For me, one of the most important things about a great video game is the immersion. It’s being able to make the player feel like they are living in a different world and experiencing things they wouldn’t normally get to. The immersion is held together by three core aspects of game design; gameplay, audio and …
Game Development So Far What is up fellow Spartans! After a four day weekend this week thanks to a bank holiday and an extra day off just for good measure I managed to get some decent progress done on Gym Empire. Whilst still getting to spend time with the family, book a holiday, do some …
Game Development So Far Finally a week where I’ve not been battling with niggly little animation issues trying to get a client to sit on a bench!! It feels good! 😀 Instead this week I’ve been: · Further refine the staff behaviour – staff behaviour is now more robust when going to train clients. I’ve …
Game Development So Far Another week goes by, another week focusing mainly on animation. When I first started the animation for Gym Empire I thought “this is easy” how wrong I could be! It’s the little things that throw the spanner in the works. Anyway let’s get into last weeks tasks: Refine entire animation code …
