Something I’ve always loved in any media form is a great story. But what makes a great story? When you are the consumer of the story it’s not always that easy to identify what exactly makes one story so interesting and another formulaic. However, when you task yourself with creating a story you start to …
After figuring out the issue that was causing the guards in Project ZATO to not hear correctly, I managed to get a lot of progress done on the prototype over the weekend. So far the prototype now covers: Basic guard AI including sight and hearing Multiple guard types – each with access to different areas …
As I continue to develop Gym Empire I find more and more just how different working in 3D is. Creating objects in the world is not too difficult and placing them just involves understanding that there is a 3rd axis that you need to accommodate for when defining the position. It however starts to become …
Last weekend we managed to get a decent amount of basic mechanics into Project ZATO. The basic things like movement and collision were done with no issues. The trickier work came when it was time to start implementing sight and hearing for the enemy AI. I started with the sight. This basically consisted of creating …
Over the past week I have been focusing the development of Gym Empire into getting the basic systems up and running in Unity. I expected this to take a bit of effort but I didn’t realise that each individual step would feel like such a challenge. The issue is one of two halves. To start …
As I you can probably imagine, working on two new games at once is quite the balancing act. Not only are they different game styles but they As I you can probably imagine, working on two new games at once is quite the balancing act. Not only are they different game styles but they are …
I was scrolling through Twitter today and I came across a post from @Dilmerv “I also get asked how I stay motivated and how in the heck I do it. I can’t explain it but I see the vision of what I am doing now payoff in years from today. Is weird that I know …
Game Development So Far Last week I managed to get the systems in Gym Empire to a fit enough state whereby I could start to test them out a little. Most of the work was done in Visual Studio using Windows Forms. This has been great for providing a pure number simulation with some very …
After announcing Project ZATO, myself and Chris met up over the weekend to discuss and plan a few things around the project. One of the first things we discussed was around the graphical style of Project ZATO. The view is going to be top down and the style is going to be pixel art, however …
So after some work this week I’m starting to get the systems in Gym Tycoon/Empire into some sort of playable game. It’s very early and clunky but there is already a ‘game feel’ to it. The current systems are in place and currently form the foundation for the game: Gym – The gym is a …
