MKNGBRD_Design

Oh, the errors...

I made a script that allows my player to cross through a portal and then into a second scene and back again. Same thing for if you fall off the edge of the map. And then the errors start.

I LOVE level planning. Ever since I was a kid and there were modding kits for the Elder Scrolls and Dungeon Siege games, one of my favorite things to do was to put together new levels and worlds and watch everything come together and create challenges for my brother.

Through the years I have become (expectedly) better at it. I’ve been having tons of fun using Photoshop to plan out the first level for my game, though this is definitely one of the most tedious and time consuming activities for me. 

Above you can see where I am placing default paths and specific points that I plan to have in the level.

In this video you can see me testing out my planned level with a UV mapped texture. The circle in the middle represents the center of the village I will start in, and the brown lines will be turned into a beaten path that the player will follow to their destination.

One of the best practices I have implemented while working on projectNachos is writing out simple, clear goals every morning and working to complete those small goals by the end of the day to keep myself from getting overwhelmed and giving up on my project.

Got the animations for the bee wings and general bee movement down. This will be their idle animations.

IT FINALLY WORKS

I have been looking into a solution for my model geometry problem for WEEKS, and today, thanks to some very helpful individuals in the official Unity forums, I have found the solution.

The problem occurs when bringing a mesh from Blender into Unity. For whatever reason the two applications do not get along well.

To fix my rotation issue, I had to parent an empty game object to the mesh made in blender and make sure my empty object was what received the code, then my mesh (as a child object) would obey that code.

Ta da! From there it was a simple matter of playing with and aligning the rotation of the mesh and the parent empty object, and now the basic AI for my bee works flawlessly.

Today I’ve been working on this little dilemma:

If your workstation looks something like this, you’re probably a Dev of some sort.

And of course the Pandora app on my iPad has to be set to the Skyrim station, because FUS RO DAH!

Learning how to script with C# today.... I realize that most gamedevs use basic models and work out the functions, animations and interactions before worrying about their art, but I’m much better with art so I do things a little backwards.

I’ve been working on the design for a simple, old-school style game for a while now. I have finally learned how to better use Blender and Photoshop to paint my models, and I’m quite proud of how they have been comingout.

I am doing the game artwork in a simple, low-poly style with inspirations from the old Spyro games for PSX. I also have smoother, nicer-looking versions that I am planning to make use of in the game that I intend to create once this one is finished. Coding for this game is still my biggest challenge, but I look forward to the day when I conquer my weakness and have a great final product!