Project PULSE 2/2

Making Procedural Textures

As with our level design, we wanted to allow for flexibility and modularity in our material work. As opposed to painting...

The Making of Procedural Buildings

Since Project Pulse’s environment is procedurally generated, we had to set-dress the city block by block. Our focus here was to make our...

Making the Music of Project PULSE

Music is an incredibly important aspect of any game, but for a game with music as a foundation for our mechanics, we have to carefully...

Designing the Characters of Project PULSE

Our primary goal was to cover each of the main high school stereotypes (jock, cheerleader/preppy, goth, nerd) in our 4 main characters...

Interface Design Ideation

Because we knew pretty early that plenty would be happening on-screen simultaneously, minimal and compact UI design was a must...

Creating a Procedural City - The Roads Pt. 1

As we were concepting the idea of Project Pulse, we were actively toying around with the idea that we could use procedurally generated...

Making the Project PULSE Style Guide

Once we decided on the overall theme and design of this game, those in and out of the art team took a day to gather up images and create...

Designing the Basics of the Beat

When designing Project Pulse, we knew already that we were creating a rhythm game, and the rhythm was going to need to feel right...

Conceptualizing the Rhythm Attack System

When we were first conceptualizing our newest project, we knew we wanted to break through genres in some way. A lot of iterations and...