Creating NPC Clothing
When creating NPCs, we sought to create a system that brought life to the city in a background sort of manner. To make sure these...
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Naomi Masterson
- May 19, 2021
Smaller Environment Interactions
For the first part of development, our game was 50% combat, 50% walking sim. If you weren’t fighting, you were looking for something...
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Claire Rodriguez
- May 19, 2021
Making Melody's Slash
VSFX are the key to making any magic power or sci fi blaster look and feel like it’s actually doing something. Melody was walking around...
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Claire Rodriguez
- May 19, 2021
Making the Occlusion Mask
When it comes to a fixed camera, one of the biggest issues that comes up is objects blocking your screen when you walk behind something...
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Alexander Croom
- May 17, 2021
Wayfinding in Procedural Environments
Last time, when we talked about improvements in a procedural environment, I briefly mentioned the topics of wayfinding and mini-maps....
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Alexander Croom
- May 15, 2021
Improving Procedural Environments - Pt. 1
As a procedural systems designer, you start to realize that different things you have created can very quickly take on lives of their...
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Alexander Croom
- May 15, 2021
Designing 4-Player Couch Co-op
Early on in the project we knew we wouldn't be able to work with network multiplayer within the timespan of the project. We also knew...
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Alexander Croom
- May 3, 2021
Creating the Charge Attacks
As our team moved into the final quarter of our development cycle, we knew from all the feedback we had received thus far that we needed...
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Alexander Croom
- May 2, 2021
Bug Fixing and Persistence as an Indie Developer
When you work as an indie dev, your resources are limited, your funding is small or non-existent, and you try your best to make things...
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Alexander Croom
- Apr 18, 2021
Creating a Procedural City - The Filler
When creating our procedurally generated city, we've split things up into a number of categories and sub-categories. Two of these main...
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Alexander Croom
- Apr 11, 2021
Creating a Procedural City - The Roads Pt. 2
The original concept was to create a system that was relatively random, having roads that darted left and right in a random zig-zag...
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Alexander Croom
- Apr 2, 2021
Interface Design Ideation
Because we knew pretty early that plenty would be happening on-screen simultaneously, minimal and compact UI design was a must...
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Alexander Croom
- Apr 2, 2021
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...
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Alexander Croom
- Mar 31, 2021
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...
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