Welcome to the Adlib Dev Blog
Hey everybody, I’m Jason but for the sake of moniker’s you can call me “Ad-dev.”
So this a blog dedicated to my end of year exam project for my digital art’s degree. I am using it to illustrate my process thus far and going forward to make recording my work a little bit easier.
But it’s also to show off, ya know? If you don’t take a little bit of pride in your work, you won’t put in a little bit of effort. So I put in a lot of misplaced pride for the right amount of futile effort.
“That’s all well and good ‘Ad-Dev’ but what is the project?”
Adlib, as a project is a bunch of things:
First and most importantly, it’s a game. A combination of Xtreme Sport titles (like Jetset Radio) and stylish hack-y, slash-y, monster mash-y action (Think Monster Hunter). More a proof of concept than anything. The Player goes through a single choreographed Boss battle where they’ll need to Attack a Giant monster while grinding, dashing and jumping around a large city-scape to get to him.
It’s a short comic book that accompanies the game. A slice of sci-fi life story that details everything that leads up to the game’s final showdown. It’s a whole world of work but comic book writing is something I’m equally passionate about as game development so, on my conscience, I can’t NOT do it.
Lastly, it’s me trying my hand as a “director” of sorts for this project. I set it out to leave my comfort zone and collaborate with different people from around the world to simulate what it will be like to work on personal projects in the industry. I’ve commissioned/gotten help from a lot of different artists, animators and programmers and I’m still looking for more to make Adlib as great as possible.
“So what are you doing for the project?”
I am the writer, director, producer, head progammer, level designer, sound designer, voice actor, UI designer etc. etc. for Adlib. Everything else? Done by a bunch of amazing and talented people I’ve conned into helping through pleading, bribery and general flirtation.
“And one more time, this Blog is for...?”
Showing off all work that goes into Adlib from everyone involved as well as displaying some of my hot messes that you can learn from without having to go through them yourself.
