The Nic V. Blog

Dr. Octopus for Sketch Dailies. A bit younger than mot people know him, but we’ve all gotta start somewhere.

A ghoul for Sketch Dailies.

Even goblins love ice cream!

Everything is Festival went really well! The response to the game was great and I had a lot of fun checking out everyone else's games. There was a really nice spectrum of VR experiences going on which was particularly cool since a majority of people coming through had never done VR before.

Holden and I have a few polish items we need to take care of before releasing the game, but we should have it up online in the next couple weeks.

In other news, I'm back to working on Sprout! I really fell off the horse there for awhile, but my new plan is to get it out on Vita by the end of September. I've been running into some really annoying snags with object pooling, but if I spread out those frustrations by working on other more enjoyable tasks, it should be more bearable.

For example, here's my progress on the new title screen:

I'm working on moving everything into one scene so I don't have to worry about loading between scenes. Things will just run better that way.

Next weekend this is going on:

So I'm working with Holden Link on a game to show there called Night at the Roculus. As you might suspect, it's based on Night at the Roxbury and involves VR headbanging. We've been pretty heads down all weekend, but it's coming along better than either of us imagined. Once we get a few more crucial pieces in place, I'll post some screenshots or something.