Until next time!
Sep 19, 2018
Project Husky Dev Diary 06
In sprint 6, I spent quite a lot of time working on story elements for the game, as well as doing a first pass on the layout of the forest region. I started work on a new AI for a new creature, using a finite state machine, but ran out of time.
Until next time!
Until next time!
Sep 5, 2018
New Dev Diary for Project Husky
So I just realised that I've been neglecting this blog for a few months now. Development on "Husky" has been progressing quite well, and I have been doing fortnightly dev diaries on my youtube channel, but I haven't been posting any updates here. Starting today I'll be putting together a brief post here to go along with each Dev Diary.
The videos are typically less than 5 minutes long - just a quick summary of what I've been up to in the preceding two weeks, and occasionally a more detailed explanation of a concept.
The latest video is here:
For those that are interested, the other 4 episodes can be found on my youtube channel (Personally I think episode 2 is the most interesting thus far).
Until next time!
The videos are typically less than 5 minutes long - just a quick summary of what I've been up to in the preceding two weeks, and occasionally a more detailed explanation of a concept.
The latest video is here:
For those that are interested, the other 4 episodes can be found on my youtube channel (Personally I think episode 2 is the most interesting thus far).
Until next time!
Jun 11, 2018
Husky Dev Blog 1
So, after a period of research, story writing and tech prototyping, I am pleased to announce that proper development on "Husky" will begin today. I still have a few ideas to polish from a story standpoint, but the basic structure of Act 1 is locked in, which means I have enough to get started.
"Husky" started as a game idea I had back in 2011, where the player experiences a certain game-changing epiphany during gameplay. In my mind I envisioned that an entire game could be built around hiding this until the point where I wanted the "wow!" moment occur. I had no idea how it would start, or where it would go after the epiphany (it was set to occur around the middle of the game). I was already working on something else at the time, so I wrote down the idea with the notion of revisiting it and fleshing it out sometime in the future.
The other game project I was working on eventually petered out and after a period of self-reflection I decided I needed to work on something simpler in scope. In January I brought up my list of ideas and decided to flesh out the "epiphany game". Over the past 6 months I’ve evolved the game world and story and didn't even notice when the "epiphany" concept was slowly slipping out of my overall vision for the game. I kind of knew it needed to be in there somewhere, not sure exactly where, but I was determined to shoehorn it in… because… reasons!
After reviewing my notes this week I had an epiphany of my own. The epiphany moment didn’t fit at all, and furthermore, it was actually pretty lame compared to the rest of the amazing story I’d crafted and honed over the last few months. The fleshed out story has many more interesting (and natural) “wow!” moments than the original concept, which was a silly gameplay gimmick at best.
Even a few weeks ago, if someone had suggested ditching the epiphany moment I would have strongly defended it as absolutely essential to the game. As of today I have officially killed it off and it feels weird. I probably wouldn’t have come up with what I have now if it wasn’t for that original idea, but it has no place in the final design. It was like scaffolding on which I could construct something more interesting, but the key is that scaffolding is ultimately dismantled.
During its development I’ll be attempting 2 week sprints in my free time. Progress will be slow as I still have a full time job. My plan is to show off *something* at the end of every sprint. Here we go...
"Husky" started as a game idea I had back in 2011, where the player experiences a certain game-changing epiphany during gameplay. In my mind I envisioned that an entire game could be built around hiding this until the point where I wanted the "wow!" moment occur. I had no idea how it would start, or where it would go after the epiphany (it was set to occur around the middle of the game). I was already working on something else at the time, so I wrote down the idea with the notion of revisiting it and fleshing it out sometime in the future.
The other game project I was working on eventually petered out and after a period of self-reflection I decided I needed to work on something simpler in scope. In January I brought up my list of ideas and decided to flesh out the "epiphany game". Over the past 6 months I’ve evolved the game world and story and didn't even notice when the "epiphany" concept was slowly slipping out of my overall vision for the game. I kind of knew it needed to be in there somewhere, not sure exactly where, but I was determined to shoehorn it in… because… reasons!
After reviewing my notes this week I had an epiphany of my own. The epiphany moment didn’t fit at all, and furthermore, it was actually pretty lame compared to the rest of the amazing story I’d crafted and honed over the last few months. The fleshed out story has many more interesting (and natural) “wow!” moments than the original concept, which was a silly gameplay gimmick at best.
Even a few weeks ago, if someone had suggested ditching the epiphany moment I would have strongly defended it as absolutely essential to the game. As of today I have officially killed it off and it feels weird. I probably wouldn’t have come up with what I have now if it wasn’t for that original idea, but it has no place in the final design. It was like scaffolding on which I could construct something more interesting, but the key is that scaffolding is ultimately dismantled.
During its development I’ll be attempting 2 week sprints in my free time. Progress will be slow as I still have a full time job. My plan is to show off *something* at the end of every sprint. Here we go...
Feb 1, 2018
Introducing "Husky"
So, work on "Bulldog" has stalled again. It's been many months since my last blog post. A lot of (non-games dev) stuff has happened to me during that time, such as changing jobs. I also feel that my friend, Skugga, is partly to blame for my lack of free time when he introduced me to Player Unknown Battlegrounds :D. I've been playing it an unhealthy amount, and its rocketed up to my most played game on Steam.
So, after having done no games dev for months, myself and a few mates at my new work participated in the 2018 Global Game Jam recently and it was awesome fun! It's inspired me to pick it up again. I've decided I need a smaller project that will help me get up to speed with Unity, and so I'm pleased to announce I'm kicking off a new game project.
In keeping with my dog-based theme for naming, until I have a proper name, I shall refer to this project as... (rolls dice)... "Husky".
Husky is based on an idea I've had kicking around for quite a while now. There's a lot of concepts that need to be nailed down before I can go into more detail, but broadly speaking, it is a story driven game in a world of geometric shapes about a village of circles and their bitter rivals, the squares.
More to come...
So, after having done no games dev for months, myself and a few mates at my new work participated in the 2018 Global Game Jam recently and it was awesome fun! It's inspired me to pick it up again. I've decided I need a smaller project that will help me get up to speed with Unity, and so I'm pleased to announce I'm kicking off a new game project.
In keeping with my dog-based theme for naming, until I have a proper name, I shall refer to this project as... (rolls dice)... "Husky".
Husky is based on an idea I've had kicking around for quite a while now. There's a lot of concepts that need to be nailed down before I can go into more detail, but broadly speaking, it is a story driven game in a world of geometric shapes about a village of circles and their bitter rivals, the squares.
More to come...
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