The team just got back from GDC last week – talk about exhausting! This week is our spring break, so we’re taking it easy. By crunching for next week’s major half-semester presentation! That’s right, crunch is how we relax now. This has been a key adaptation. A minor point of… Continue reading
Anthony Palma, our endearingly bro-ish former producer and programmer who was part of the founding team, is off to an amazing start with his new indie dev company/project, Kermdinger Studios! They just won a major CMU venture pitch competition! Are we surprised? No. Proud? Heck yes. Jealous? Kinda. Way to… Continue reading
This post will be a little more technical from a design perspective, but it’s the conceptual gristle we’re chewing on as we continue to iterate and tune the combat system, and I for one find it delicious (stew it for long enough and it turns into gravy). Looking at how… Continue reading
Never too early to playtest! This weekend we finished up our first pass on the new combat system, and we had about 8 kind folks in to spend some time swinging their arms, having some fun, and reminding us why motion control combat is hard to get right. The core… Continue reading
That’s right – we’re busy, but never too busy to screw up our sleep schedules with a glorious 48 hours of game-developing mayhem! For this year’s Global Game Jam, the 4 of us teamed up with 2 other friends to make Ka-Chunk, a spinning 2-player head-to-head physics/block puzzler with borderline… Continue reading
One of the design challenges we’ve set out to tackle this semester is looking at a heavier, more powerful weapon – if you know hack-and-slash games, you know that also translates to a slower weapon, both for gameplay balance and to create a visceral sense of weight. The fast blade… Continue reading
We’re back, ladies and gentlemen! It’s the second day of the new semester, and we’re beyond excited to be following up last semester’s successful tech demo with a deeper design exploration into motion control combat mechanics, finishing with a full playable mission! We’ll keep you updated as we move forward, but first, some… Continue reading
After finishing up prototypes 5 and 6, the team moved directly into the final few weeks of the semester where they focused on playtesting the product, iterating based on feedback, and polishing the final demo as a whole. Informal playtests have been conducted all semester when smaller features were implemented,… Continue reading
The team has been very hard at work since halves presentations. On the programming side, prototypes 5 and 6 are finished and the programmers are now working on polishing the existing material and adding in more content as planned. Prototype 5 consisted of more blended slashes being implemented, and Adam… Continue reading
1/2 semester presentations are today for Action in Motion and we’ve been incredibly busy preparing our demos for this presentation. We’ll be showing two demos today as well as a good bit of our finished artwork. On the art side: Enemy Character is modeled, rigged, textured and animated Hero Character… Continue reading