War tent

Here's the model of a war tent I've been working on recently, this should be the final version, unless there's any problems with double sided faces in unity. This comes in at 902 triangles; 641 for the tent, 261 for the veranda.

I've set the rotation points for both pieces at the middle of the base, so the tent and veranda can be duplicated and moved around with ease; modular building makes producing variations of models pretty easy.

Animating the ballista can wait for now, hoping to do some digital painting soon, either my Pathfinder cleric or some fanart of Bastion, since it's so damn awesome :) Speaking of awesome, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSLPH9d-jsI&feature=relmfu Her stuff is all i've been listening to recently, and makes me want to pick up my violin again :p

Producing Assets for Desperate Defence

As we all finished university with not much money in our pockets, buying a version of 3DS Max is not currently an option, so the artists in the team (including yours truly) are currently learning Blender.

I heard a lot of bad things about Blender, but a lot of things must have changed since then, because it is a very nice modelling package at the moment. Me and a friend have been working side by side a lot, and we've often said to each other "Wow, this feature works nicer than the equivalent in Max", or something along those lines anyway.

Some things were a pain in the ass to work out, others were easy, but as a whole we're pretty confident with it now, which isn't bad considering we've only been learning it for a week.

So without further ado, my first asset for our game, a ballista that will sit on top of the human walls.

The first image is a bit dark, but i've made it like that to show the specular and normal maps a bit better. This is currently at 1008 triangles, but i'm going to optimize that over the coming days, should be able to shave off about 100 tris at least. Also going to animate this soon to shoot bolts, so i'll post an update when that's all done. Might also have a WIP screenshot of a undead war-tent i'll be modelling :)

A Fresh Start

Haven't posted on here since my 2nd year of university, got tied up in final year work, partying, and fixing some personal issues. Hoping to start more or less fresh from here with regular updates; every week or two.

Passed my Games Art BA (hons) degree with a 2:2, and now me and friends are trying to set up an idie games business. We're going to start with apps, and maybe move onto the PC and console markets in the future, depending on how it all goes.

Desperate Defence

Our first game is Desperate Defence, where you play as a hero defending towns and cities from waves of an undead horde, holding out as long as you can before retreating; the longer you last, the better your score. Theres no way to win as such, but higher scores show your skill at the game, and yes, we're planning to have a system where you can compare scores with other players. It's going to be free to play, and on the Android and Apple app stores, perhaps also on the PC via an internet browser.

The F2P version will allow you to play as a human cleric, who can smite enemies in holy fire, while empowering and healing NPC defenders. As it stands, you will have four spells at the bottom of the screen that you drag to where you want them to cast, but you will also have a pool of spells to "equip" before you start a defence.

Buying DLC will unlock additional races, heroes, and locations. Chances are we will also have adverts in the game, so buying DLC will remove these.

I may mention more about it as we get further along production, it's still early days for us :)