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ending this with the song i'm currently listening to:
Symphony by Lamp
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tEX...
gooooodbyyeee
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ending this with the song i'm currently listening to:
Symphony by Lamp
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tEX...
gooooodbyyeee
11
thoughts & reflections:
- sadly unable to finish the latter half of sprint, but I think did the best I could given the time i had before I had to go
- the unreal engine UI system is soooo bad like who designed this
- interested in cleaning up the game a bit for a solid vertical slice later on
10
worked with @heathermarra.bsky.social to edit together our final trailer! it will be revealed at a later time 🤫
(the gamer lights keyboard is not reflective of who I am as a person)
09
made some poster variations for press kit using May's artwork
08
for some additional ~polish~ I added a transition in/out screen wipe when transitioning/loading levels
07
then we did some redesigning of our clock to include 3 phases rather than just day and night (a witch gotta sleep ya know)
(I don't think this actually got implemented on the programming side but the assets are there when it's ready to be done 🤩)
06
then slight pivot to create a broomstick lever for our scanner pumpkin! you gotta crank the lever to get the next tub to spawn/move along the scanner
05
we would tweak to get renders of to use the graphic element of the UI? a thought exercise for the future
then there's the options menu, @wontonsoup99.bsky.social did the BPing!
I think in a future built out version, each options category would have it's own page spread to flip through
04
this is how the pause menu ultimately turned out to look like, it's made fully in illustrator but I wonder how it could be if we made a 3d model that
03
Our illustrator/concept artist May finalized our game's splash art! so I got implement that on our menu and it looks sooo good
02
so did some redesigning of them to make them a harmonious style across the board rather than a bunch of different colors
01
i'm currently en route to San Francisco for GDC, so this ultimately was only a half sprint for me since I'm missing this week 🤩
but anyway, started off this sprint making a bunch of buttons that were not liked by poomf (professor oomf)
🧵"Rags to Witches" Dev Logs: Sprint 04 🧵
*part of ongoing game dev process for
@dmawdev.bsky.social's production class 🫡
**follow our studio!
@ghotigames.bsky.social
#gamedev #indiedev
10/10
ending this with the song i'm currently listening to:
Twin by Hatchie
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzRP...
goodnight
09/10
thoughts & reflections (pt2):
- excited to continue working on the UI! one of those things to really adds oomf and polish to a student project
- I have a lot more modeling left to do for the various things that could pop up in a Portal passenger's luggage, so that'll be my other big thing
08/10
thoughts & reflections:
-really liking the new quick and dirty texturing method, feels very scrappy yet works if good color/topology decisions are made
- opening UE5's UI blueprint system for the first time in like a year... so badly designed on the backend whew
07/10
also re: glass bottles & liquid shaders
prof Kane also swooped in to help us fix those, so everyone clap for prof Kane pt 2
through watching him I also found out you can just clamp a models vertices via a BP to create varying liquid "heights" which is really cool
06/10
our programmer @thatgamedevdylan.bsky.social had placeholder menus BPs already setup so i went in to start placing the graphics and also tinker with button interactivity/functionality, but WIP
also stole the book model made by @heathermarra.bsky.social and vectorized it for the menu design
05/10
switched gears for a bit to tackle UI graphics development, focusing on getting the important menus to work for now
our main menu will have a splash art that is currently being illustrated by our illustrator/concept artist May, but that will be shown later 🤫
04/10
the models included (continued):
- animal parts (additional to come)
- mushrooms
- gems (additional to come)
03/10
after solidifying the workflow and feeling confident, I just started modeling a bunch of things and texturing along the way
the models included:
- shop pedestals
- eyeballs
- herbs & flowers (additional to come)
02/10
so our last style wasn't working super well because of a few different reasons, so with this direction we had to first retexturing all of our existing assets
thankfully, we picked up on the style/workflow quickly!
01/10
sooo addressing elephant (mandrake?) in the room, you may notice that our art style looks very different from the previous dev logs... well, yes! new art direction courtesy of prof Kane, everyone say thank you prof Kane
🧵"Rags to Witches" Dev Logs: Sprint 03 🧵
*part of ongoing game dev process for
@dmawdev.bsky.social's production class 🫡
**follow our studio!
@ghotigames.bsky.social
#gamedev #indiedev
12/12
ending this with the song i'm currently listening to:
first period by Rei Harakami
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IGD...
toodles
11/12
thoughts & reflections (pt 2):
- i think the glass material/fresneling needs to be tweaked a bit more in UE5
- overall, we haven't achieved the flat color lighting stuff we ideally want so that will be a continuous work in progress that needs to be immediately addressed
10/12
thoughts & reflections:
- i actually really enjoyed being scrum master and doing scrumming duties, as long as people actually replied
- stylized texturing is a lot more difficult than it seems, and getting a whole team to do it consistently is another big hurdle
09/12
our beautiful corner setup has been a group effort with everyone touching the lights/post-processing/set dressing at various points
08/12
making sure the jars/potion bottles were properly setup took a lot of time to do right, as there needed to be 3 different material slots had to be carried through from blender to substance to UE5
the glass material was further tweaked in UE5 for fresneling
07/12
I also modeled + texturing various jars/potion bottles but went a bit overboard future-proofing by creating versions where the jar glass/topper/liquid meshes & textures are combined and then also separated in case we want to have just the jar meshes to house non-liquid stuff
