I've recently released on YouTube a new track part of the game's original soundtrack.

I have yet to choose how this track is going to be used, but chances are that this track will be used in a cave-like level (mainly due to its title)

If you got any type of feedback, don't be s…

Last week was a modelling one. There aren't a whole lot of new mechanics but it was still a productive week nevertheless.

Firstly, I've previously talked about creating a custom font to display some of the GUI icons.

Well, with the use of FontForge, we were able to add ve…

Last week didn't have any particular theme, although it still was a busy one...

First off, all statuses now have effect textures. these are really abstract, but nice to look at.

(From left to right: Bleeding, Burning, Damned, Frenzied, Frozen, Knocked Out, Poisoned, Para…

Last week I've worked on implementing statuses in the game.

To put it simply, statuses negatively affect entities. Things like poisoning or bleeding, for example, will continuously dish out damage for a specific amount of time.

Here's a list of some statuses and their effect…

Last week I've worked on two things: Foods and Activated Items.

I can safely say that my goal was achieved, and even surpassed.

I've managed to add three working Activated Items and a whopping 9 foods in total.

So let's dive right into it.

Before we …

In my previous update, I've said that the next step would be to integrate relics in the game.

I'm proud to say that I've managed to implements some of th…

I've decided to change the frequency of these updates: most of the times, I just do some minor updates and graphical tweaks here and there. Therefore, if I do these updates weekly, then I'll have a lot more content to write about.

So, yeah...

Last week, I've been working on adding many d…

During the past days, lots of shaders were updated and other visual things did too.

Firstly, I've added lights effects when the crystals get shattered. There's also a burst of particle emanating from the broken crystal on impact.

Also, enemies now leave a ragdoll corpse behind when they …

Today was kind of a slow day too. I've haven't got a lot of sleep lately (thanks little hamster wheel in my head)

But at last, I was still able to add (and also fix) some graphical components here and there.

In short, I've made the first and last rooms of the level more distinct from eve…

Today, I've worked on level exits.

When the player arrived at the last room before, nothing awaited him. He was stuck for eternity on the same level. Kinda boring, actually...

But today this is no more! Now a big Ethernet port awaits the player at the end of the level.

He just needs …

Today, I've fixed some bugs with the crystal throwing algorithm.

Basically, crystals will be used by the player to get to those alternative paths I've mentioned in my BPS tree entry.

There'll be at least …

In the previous iteration of our game, we decided to use an actual cone as a way to make an AI "see".

This implementation was hazardous, and it quickly became one of the hardest things to implement.

We eventually were able to code it all, but the result…

Today was kind of a slow day: I had many things to do, so development was kind of light...

Nevertheless, I've still managed to do something...

I've added a way to highlight items through emission (not unlike how we did it…

Today I've worked on adding bombs to the game.

They are really useful for dispersing enemies and such.

The model was made a while back. It was just a mater of importing it in Unity and coding the script.

Here's a nice video I've made just for that:

There's nothing reall…

Roguelites are synonymous with loot and treasure chests. However, my game is vaporwave, so traditional treasure chests are out of the question.

This is what I came up with:

You may get the references if you know you…

Today, I've modified the shader I've previously made so that it can take a "wetness" parameter.

Basically, in my palette, the first 4 columns represent…

After really thinking about it, the method I've used to play MP3 wasn't the most flexible, so after re-work…

Vaporwave is synonymous with music. It is primordial that music must be spot on... But with recent takedowns of Vaporwave classics, let's just say that I'm less eager to have sampled Vaporwave included: I don't want that to …

So the game I'm working on is going to use rooms that are connected to each other by little holes, creating something somehow similar to "Binding of Isaac", but with organic room disposition rather than rooms placed on a grid with specific dimensions.

To do this, I needed to search for a goo…

Hi guys,

I have a bad news and a good news.

The bad news is that the game i was currently working on is kinda canceled. But, however, this is not the end of this endeavor.

I've chosen to continue the development on my own and with Unity. 

Turns out that the previous engine we tri…

So the game we develop is growing steadily. We've already added a pause menu.

Its function is to be a... pause menu. (I don't know what you expected...)

Because our game is going to be really Vaporwave, we knew that the visual had to be on point.

We ended up trying a c…

In order to increase the aesthetics, we looked for tips on the post-processing filter for our engine and came up with the idea of using a VHS / Analog post-processing filter,

Because my teammate had already built OpenGL shaders in the past and that's kind of his hobby, he gave me the link to…

As part of our vaporwave roguelite game, it's actually mandatory to have some kind of music...

Here's a first look:
 

EDIT: There's another one : 

The game we're currently making is a rogue-lite. This means that we're gonna have some kind of upgrades during gameplay.

We choose to take the "Binding of Isaac" way and went along with passive items. We call them "Relics".

Anyway, here are some renderings:

Here's a slash screen mockup. It could be shown when a level is being generated or wile all assets are loaded.

We made some design concepts for trees and foods. It's pretty low poly, but that's the point!

We'll plan to use foods as temporary stats boost. Some might even be in trees...

Steering behaviors are use to maneuver IA agents in a 3D environment. With these behaviors, agents are able to better react to changes in their environment.

While the navigation mesh algorithm is ideal for planning a path from one poin…

After a play-test event at our workplace, we decided to re-evaluate our priorities and begin to gradually modify our backlog accordingly.

So I decided to create a new HUD sketch that is an evolution of our previous design.

So there is now a queue that shows context-based notification…

In our brainstorming, we had the idea of a type of item dropped by enemies that will have a very particular look: it will reproduce bismuth and, in particular, its iridescence.

Remember CD? The under side of CDs had some trippy colors that changed based on which angl…

When we started our game, we already knew it was going to be really abstract.

Therefore, we also knew that, in term of shaders, it would be a real challenge.

However, because we use jMonkey Engine (which is a shader oriented engine), we also knew that doing a custom shader with it was go…