Another week down, another set of puzzle experiments completed. Just like last week that was our main focus again and because of the progress we’ve made we’ve been given the “go-ahead” to start working on our final level design ideas. The goal of creating these puzzles was not only for us to build drafts…
Environment art has started to roll in. The whole team is very excited about this work created by Matthew Sahakian.
So this week we all spent the majority of our time building interesting puzzles that we could potentially use in the final version of the game. I had a hard time coming up with ideas for fun interactions at first but it wasn’t long before I had so many ideas bouncing around that I…
This week the project really started to come together. We built a mini level that has a bit of everything in it and we have the player run through each of the sections in order to experience some of the unique features and mechanics we’ve implemented so far. I spent most of my time…
This week I built the save/load system, camera shake, corrected/smoothed the camera movement and started play testing / searching for bugs. The save system uses checkpoints and saves the level, characters position and any skills that they’ve unlocked. This is a pretty simple system that allows players to continue where they left off or…
2 weeks in now! (okay a little more, I’m late posting this update) The 2nd week of development went by lightning quick. It was a straight out 60+ hour dev-fest for myself and I think a majority of my team-mates put in just as much work. We added a ton of new features and…
It’s been 1 week since our team has started building out the features for the game. We spent well over 200 hours between the 6 of us this week alone on only about half of our total features. Here’s what we completed this past week: Dual character basic movement controls Carry-able blocks Drag-able blocks Doors…
During one of the last months of Full Sail we were assigned teams where we were to choose an old game, recreate the core mechanics then add in our own features. Our team decided to build Defender from the ground up. We had a lot of fun with this project, adding new features like…
Resonance was created for Global Game Jam 2017 for the theme Waves. Your body is made out of sound waves. You can defeat enemies by matching their natural resonance, but mainly you’re just slaughtering wine glasses because they’re in the way. My 2nd Global Game Jam experience was much better than the first. Like…
This is where the magic of design iteration happens, right here in the GDD. If you haven’t seen the pitch video yet you should. After watching it come take a look at this document and you’ll see how much our ideas have evolved and how everything we’ve designed has come directly from the core…
Here’s some character concept art created by Matthew Sahakian.