January 10, 2007
-------------------------
Fost - Mr. Robot Art
-------------------------
It's Done!Well, the game is now finished! (you can grab the demo here ). It's been so long in development, that it hasn't really sunk in yet. It's a great feeling - the only way I could describe it is like when you pass your driv…
Fost - Mr. Robot Art
-------------------------
It's Done!Well, the game is now finished! (you can grab the demo here ). It's been so long in development, that it hasn't really sunk in yet. It's a great feeling - the only way I could describe it is like when you pass your driv…
December 06, 2006
-------------------------
Fost - Mr. Robot Art
-------------------------
It Talks!We've always been hoping to find time to voice Mr. Robot (and Starscape for that matter), although we knew it was probably not the best idea for version 1 of any indie game. There's reams of dialogue in Mr. Robot and whi…
Fost - Mr. Robot Art
-------------------------
It Talks!We've always been hoping to find time to voice Mr. Robot (and Starscape for that matter), although we knew it was probably not the best idea for version 1 of any indie game. There's reams of dialogue in Mr. Robot and whi…
November 13, 2006
-------------------------
Fost - Mr. Robot Art
-------------------------
Final trailer is now out:
watch the streaming version
or a separate High Res Downloadable version (23 meg - mpeg)
It's always good fun putting trailers together. I also built a streaming flash player for it based around this php str…
Fost - Mr. Robot Art
-------------------------
Final trailer is now out:
watch the streaming version
or a separate High Res Downloadable version (23 meg - mpeg)
It's always good fun putting trailers together. I also built a streaming flash player for it based around this php str…
October 09, 2006
-------------------------
Fost - Mr. Robot Art
-------------------------
Chat Displays
More tidying up of loose ends; the in game conversation system has pop up displays (much the same as Starscape) for each character as they speak.
HEL, the ship's onboard computer (Above: third row from the bottom, sec…
Fost - Mr. Robot Art
-------------------------
Chat Displays
More tidying up of loose ends; the in game conversation system has pop up displays (much the same as Starscape) for each character as they speak.
HEL, the ship's onboard computer (Above: third row from the bottom, sec…
September 03, 2006
-------------------------
Fost - Mr. Robot Art
-------------------------
EmitThis is liable to be quite a dull diary rather than a dev diary, as I haven't done a lot this month. I have an excuse however, as I spent a few weeks bathing in glorious sunshine in Cornwall. Surprisingly, it is now cheaper (…
Fost - Mr. Robot Art
-------------------------
EmitThis is liable to be quite a dull diary rather than a dev diary, as I haven't done a lot this month. I have an excuse however, as I spent a few weeks bathing in glorious sunshine in Cornwall. Surprisingly, it is now cheaper (…
August 18, 2006
-------------------------
Fost - Mr. Robot Art
-------------------------
Cover Story Revisited
Quite a while back now, I was working on the DVD cover for Mr. Robot. I wasn't totally happy with the design though, so it was left by the wayside a little. So I've finished off the final cover image (above),…
Fost - Mr. Robot Art
-------------------------
Cover Story Revisited
Quite a while back now, I was working on the DVD cover for Mr. Robot. I wasn't totally happy with the design though, so it was left by the wayside a little. So I've finished off the final cover image (above),…
July 21, 2006
-------------------------
Hamish - War Angels
-------------------------
Here's a detailed list of all the weapons you'll be able to use in the game at the moment. I'm pretty happy with them right now so I don't think there will be any major arsenal changes. I did say there would be 40 guns to start wi…
Hamish - War Angels
-------------------------
Here's a detailed list of all the weapons you'll be able to use in the game at the moment. I'm pretty happy with them right now so I don't think there will be any major arsenal changes. I did say there would be 40 guns to start wi…
July 18, 2006
-------------------------
Hamish - War Angels
-------------------------
Seeing I haven't updated in ages, here's some new screenshots (click for big):
In these you can see a new APC enemy I've added, which can be equipped with a turret to turn it into a light tank (screenshots will be up when I finish …
Hamish - War Angels
-------------------------
Seeing I haven't updated in ages, here's some new screenshots (click for big):
In these you can see a new APC enemy I've added, which can be equipped with a turret to turn it into a light tank (screenshots will be up when I finish …
July 04, 2006
-------------------------
Fost - Mr. Robot Art
-------------------------
Escape VelocityFinally finished all the programs for ghost hack so rather than post pictures and spend time writing a load of waffle (that most people ignore anyway :) ) I've put my dev diary efforts into editing together some vi…
Fost - Mr. Robot Art
-------------------------
Escape VelocityFinally finished all the programs for ghost hack so rather than post pictures and spend time writing a load of waffle (that most people ignore anyway :) ) I've put my dev diary efforts into editing together some vi…
June 01, 2006
-------------------------
Fost - Mr. Robot Art
-------------------------
Ghost Attack
Not much text this month (I'm sure everyone just wants pictures anyway :) ), as I'm working overdrive on effects. Normally these will appear in ghost hack mode (a section of the game which takes part inside a virtual …
Fost - Mr. Robot Art
-------------------------
Ghost Attack
Not much text this month (I'm sure everyone just wants pictures anyway :) ), as I'm working overdrive on effects. Normally these will appear in ghost hack mode (a section of the game which takes part inside a virtual …
May 08, 2006
-------------------------
Fost - Mr. Robot Art
-------------------------
More Ghost Hack Sentinels
The ghost hack sentinels have been eating up all my time this month. Creating the shader and moddelling them is fairly swift, but animation can get complicated. Since they are just abstract entities, some…
Fost - Mr. Robot Art
-------------------------
More Ghost Hack Sentinels
The ghost hack sentinels have been eating up all my time this month. Creating the shader and moddelling them is fairly swift, but animation can get complicated. Since they are just abstract entities, some…
April 04, 2006
Note: This was originally written for our forum, and so a lot of it is aimed at explaining things to non-programmers. Apologies if I over-explain things a bit for the GDNet crowd :)
-------------------------
Poo Bear - Mr. Robot Programming
-------------------------
We Just Clicked...
Stopping any sound…
-------------------------
Poo Bear - Mr. Robot Programming
-------------------------
We Just Clicked...
Stopping any sound…
March 13, 2006
-------------------------
Hamish - War Angels
-------------------------
Machinae Supremacy
Feburary and March have been busy months for me, unfortunately alot of it hasn't been strictly game development (Talking, planning, organising, designing and so on) so I don't have as much to share as I'd like, b…
Hamish - War Angels
-------------------------
Machinae Supremacy
Feburary and March have been busy months for me, unfortunately alot of it hasn't been strictly game development (Talking, planning, organising, designing and so on) so I don't have as much to share as I'd like, b…
March 10, 2006
February 15, 2006
-------------------------
Fost - Mr. Robot Art
-------------------------
Set Design - Final Touches.
- click image for flash anim...
Like a human tube of polyfilla, I've just been concentrating on filling in all the holes in the scenery objects list. As Poo Bear makes rooms, he makes a note for me of a…
Fost - Mr. Robot Art
-------------------------
Set Design - Final Touches.
- click image for flash anim...
Like a human tube of polyfilla, I've just been concentrating on filling in all the holes in the scenery objects list. As Poo Bear makes rooms, he makes a note for me of a…
January 03, 2006
-------------------------
Fost - Mr. Robot Art
-------------------------
Serenity.
Another hero object we have used in later areas is the Eidolon shuttle. The Eidolon carries several of these for making short scientific expeditions. (Sorry, Asimov can't fly them off though ;) ). I wanted the shuttle to…
Fost - Mr. Robot Art
-------------------------
Serenity.
Another hero object we have used in later areas is the Eidolon shuttle. The Eidolon carries several of these for making short scientific expeditions. (Sorry, Asimov can't fly them off though ;) ). I wanted the shuttle to…
October 31, 2005
Just a quick note: sorry about the slow image loading some people may be experiencing when reading this. Most of the staff at our ISP have been evacuated due to hurricane warnings, and there's nobody available to fix a routing issue. Hopefully it should be cleared up in a few days, and may not even…
October 29, 2005
Right - this entry brings us up to date with the current state of the project! So updates will be a lot slower as we have to chug though our monthly workload!
-------------------------
Fost - Art
-------------------------
Dastardly DoorsMini Flash Animation of backfacing doors
It's always the simple thi…
-------------------------
Fost - Art
-------------------------
Dastardly DoorsMini Flash Animation of backfacing doors
It's always the simple thi…
October 28, 2005
Also with this entry, I'm appending information about a new game in development at Moonpod. The project is called 'War Angels' and is being developed for us by Hamish McLeod. We are very excited about War Angels, as even in its current early production state it's great fun running around with all t…
October 27, 2005
-------------------------
Fost - Art
-------------------------
Move Your BodyGoober finished animation support a while back, but I didn't have time then to test it. We are using the MD3 model format (from Quake III) for animated models only. There's some limitations compared to our own format, such as…
Fost - Art
-------------------------
Move Your BodyGoober finished animation support a while back, but I didn't have time then to test it. We are using the MD3 model format (from Quake III) for animated models only. There's some limitations compared to our own format, such as…
October 26, 2005
-------------------------
Fost - Art
-------------------------
Growing PainsSpent a lot of time dealing with print work and and overcoming issues getting various bits of artwork into the game. Something I'm looking forward to on future projects is having a mature - production proven toolset; we've alw…
Fost - Art
-------------------------
Growing PainsSpent a lot of time dealing with print work and and overcoming issues getting various bits of artwork into the game. Something I'm looking forward to on future projects is having a mature - production proven toolset; we've alw…
October 25, 2005
-------------------------
Fost - Art
-------------------------
Scary LightingI've been through and lit most of the existing rooms we have, and they've ended up looking quite 'moody', sometimes even pretty scary. The original idea with Mr. Robot was for it to be really fun looking and colorful, so I re…
Fost - Art
-------------------------
Scary LightingI've been through and lit most of the existing rooms we have, and they've ended up looking quite 'moody', sometimes even pretty scary. The original idea with Mr. Robot was for it to be really fun looking and colorful, so I re…
October 24, 2005
-------------------------
Fost - Art
-------------------------
Violet ZemanovaFinished preliminary work on the first of Mr. Robot's human characters: Violet Zemanova, captain of the Eidolon (the space ship on board which Mr Robot is set)
I always end up spending more time on the characters than I think…
Fost - Art
-------------------------
Violet ZemanovaFinished preliminary work on the first of Mr. Robot's human characters: Violet Zemanova, captain of the Eidolon (the space ship on board which Mr Robot is set)
I always end up spending more time on the characters than I think…
October 22, 2005
-------------------------
Goober - Programming
-------------------------
I've been getting vertex animated meshes working. Now, some people might think that vertex animation is a bit of a step back, when you consider that skinned meshes are all the rage with the kids these days, but there are good rea…
Goober - Programming
-------------------------
I've been getting vertex animated meshes working. Now, some people might think that vertex animation is a bit of a step back, when you consider that skinned meshes are all the rage with the kids these days, but there are good rea…
October 21, 2005
-------------------------
Poo Bear - Programming
-------------------------
I've been finishing off the control code for the core enemy robots and testing them in game. So we now have:
Grid Runners
(spot the homage!)
Move around on the raised walkways taking random turns down junctions.
Maniacs
Move in a st…
Poo Bear - Programming
-------------------------
I've been finishing off the control code for the core enemy robots and testing them in game. So we now have:
Grid Runners
(spot the homage!)
Move around on the raised walkways taking random turns down junctions.
Maniacs
Move in a st…
October 20, 2005
-------------------------
Poo Bear - Programming
-------------------------
This game has been worked on as a pet project for years on and off, so the first job was to replace the prototype world code with something more robust and stable so that objects could collide, fall and support one another when…
Poo Bear - Programming
-------------------------
This game has been worked on as a pet project for years on and off, so the first job was to replace the prototype world code with something more robust and stable so that objects could collide, fall and support one another when…
October 19, 2005
-------------------------
Poo Bear - Programming
-------------------------
I've spent a lot of time playing old spectrum games, drawing isometric pictures on graph paper and building things out of lego! :)
That sounds bad but it's a necessary part of game design, you have to fully immerse yourself in t…
Poo Bear - Programming
-------------------------
I've spent a lot of time playing old spectrum games, drawing isometric pictures on graph paper and building things out of lego! :)
That sounds bad but it's a necessary part of game design, you have to fully immerse yourself in t…
October 18, 2005
I'll be posting a few 'back issues' on our project (starting with this one) over the next couple of days, so people reading on gamedev.net can get up to date. Hope you enjoy it :)
-------------------------
Poo Bear - Programming
-------------------------
Project Status Announcement:
We are starting work…
-------------------------
Poo Bear - Programming
-------------------------
Project Status Announcement:
We are starting work…
Advertisement
Popular Blogs
Advertisement