Telepillar

Photos from Telepillar's physical popup installation!

Goodbye default Unreal mannequin, hello Mr. Roboto! He is the protagonist we needed and deserved, even if he is a little texturally challenged

The main challenge I faced was attempting to implement the background music, as I wanted to have it be continuous between level loads. The conclusion I came to was that in order to facilitate this, I would have to set up the game environment as a level streaming system rather than a directly loading one. In the future I will design with that in mind as an option, but as a working measure I ended up simply having the music fade and resume at a random point to provide variance if not continuity.

Documentation of character and animation importing for Unreal! I selected this faceless alien lad as my model and successfully put together idle, walking and running animations for him to blend through based on motion. The process is surprisingly simple, all things considered, although the fine details of how to polish the transitions between animations eluded me.

From the last build going into the first finished version, I am adding and tweaking a variety of features. In addition to textures and lighting effects that enhance the environment, important supporting elements such as visual guides and sound effects will also be present. The addition of props and level detail are also important parts of the game's silent narrative. Importantly, this build will also feature an ending that ties together the game's themes and provides a conclusive finish to the experience of playing.

This has been a very productive exercise in learning how to work with Unreal - I might polish off this prototype to make it something complete in the future or just move on to a new project with the skills I've learned from it.

Puzzle game concept prototype. Featuring most of the base mechanics, such as movable blocks that teleport you between them and selective barriers that allow the blocks through but not you. Next up is adding more types of blocks and barriers to introduce the sequential puzzle logic.

Insane scrawlings (design docs) for a simple puzzle game.

You can find my latest masterpiece at this link

Some updated views of the ruined mission in-engine.

Results of modeling exercises in Blender. It's a very powerful tool, and pretty intuitive considering how complex it is. Featuring the classic donut and chair 3D modeling staples.

No more mister nice guy

Tools used were shape placing, vertex sculpting, smoothing and flattening, lattice deformation, displacement, union, bevel... I really just ended up using most of them to figure out how they work.

The basic lookbook for Endrose (provisional title). This document is meant as a basic overview of what's going on - there's a lot of other ideas I have about the universe and how it'll translate into a game, but those will come later.