Blog Post 8 – Unity Unity is a game engine, and is used to make every aspect of Jazz and Azul work. I’m Unity you can assign code to objects in order to control movement, place and position lighting within a scene, control camera movements and structure different scenes of a game. Prior to this …
Blog Post 7 – Adobe After Effects During the game, cutscenes are used often at climactic parts of the story. The introduction of the game informs the player of the world’s background through a 5 minute animated cutscene. The end of the game wraps the whole thing up through an animated cliff hanger. Throughout the …
Blog Post 6 – Particle systems Particle systems are a modification which can be applied to an object in Blender. They are used to procedurally generate a smaller object or particles onto the main object. Typically particle systems can be used to generate hair on a characters head, flowers along a grass field, or rocks …
Blog Post 5 – Posters The in-game posters are a form of foreshadowing, used to subtly hint at the sinister and dark undertones of the narrative before the players have a chance to witness them. In our game, the big reveal happens during the events on both sides of the wall, here the players experience …
Blog Post 4 – Modelling Characters Modelling characters was a new experience for me, as I have never modelled anything organic before, nor anything designed to move. Therefore I had to keep into consideration that certain areas such as knees and elbows should require a higher polycount than unmoving areas such as the head or …
Blog Post 3 – Rigging and Animating Animation isn’t an entirely brand new subject for me, last year I had to learn and put into practice animating techniques for a 2D game. Although 3D animating is very different as it requires rigging and modelling and other techniques not needed for Sprite animating, prior research used …
Dev Blog: Concept Art Part 2 After a few iterations of concept art, based around different ideas and styles, I finally went away one last time and designed buildings and street furniture, which we were finally both happy with. The idea came to me to try and make as many man-made things in the world …
Dev Blog: Concept Art Part 1 Designing the world and the characters which inhabit it has been a difficult task for myself and Jessica. There have been countless ideas and styles which we have discussed and built upon, all of which has helped up move towards the final idea and design which we have settled …