the origin of BOXGAME

BOXGAME is based on a prototype I worked on at university with a very cool group of guys.

Admittedly, I was not the team member who put in the most work (I actually vanished near the end of development to work on my own stuff) but the rest of the team did a brilliant job on the prototype as you can see:

The awesome team that pulled this off was:

• David Webb – Team Leader (and developer of Hexothermic)
• Will Eades – Lead Designer
• Karl Mitson – Lead Programmer
• Chris Chadwick – Artist
• Lee Adam – Artist
• Wendian Liu – Artist
• Edward Addley – Programmer
• Sam Earl – Programmer

Everyone really demonstrated that the concept was pretty cool, and I wanted to take what I liked about it and go with it in my own direction, and BOXGAME is the result.

as a side note, I think most of the guys in the team are looking for jobs, so if you’re looking for insanely talented and driven developers you should look no further than these guys

Nevermore 3 released, new project underway

first of all, Adam Westerman, A brilliant artist and all out dude has finished Nevermore 3, a game I have been waiting on for years, it it was worth the wait, make sure to check it out.

Incidentally, the engine he used to make the game with was a modified version of an open platform game engine I released a while back, but the replacement engine thats in Alpha right now already has more features and is much more sexy, so check that out too if you want to make a platformer without learning that programming stuff.

and whats this talk of a new project I… talk of… >.>

I actually plan to sell this one so that means I’ll try to take the time to make sure it isnt shit before I release it ^_^

I dont think theres much else to say but if you want more frequent, less relevant updates I’m on twitter.

Unity

Just got a hold of the recently released windows version of the unity game engine, this shit is hot, check out my first few days of tests:

first of all its graphics testing, a quick rigged model with parralax specular maps and stuff:

then we start practicing game code (and skip ahead before we are done, but the lights are pretty):

then we actually make a proper game of snake:

They all have arrow key interaction and you will of course need the unity web player to have a go

And thats pretty much all the things I do to get the hang of new software, which means now I’m working on original games, starting with porting what I have of Runcible Sky as now its a project I can finish (flash couldnt reasonably handle it, Unity can and then some).