Making actual progress! but the character still looks awful. And i got volumetric fog. Maybe a little bit too much.
so... it seems I've decided to join as well, even though i've missed the first third and originally didn't want to.
but then, yesterday night, I suddenly got an inspiration of how I would make one of my recurring nightmare dreams into a (not)game, and was like "yes, that's interesting and small, contained project, I've got to do that". and then I realized it fits the theme... so I figured, why not, let's try to jam it!
So the game will be a recreation of a nightmare I've been having since I was 8 years old.
...figuring out why it fits into the topic of "Mirror" will be... kind of equal to figuring out the point/message of the game.
So far I've got nothing specifically for it, but it's going to be low-poly, so previous night I've been playing around with/learning to make low poly stuff (related to a different game I'm prototyping), so to make this post not so boring by only having text, here's an unrelated screenshot of my low-poly experiments. Update with jam-relevant screenshots will follow next week :-D
(for anyone curious - the glow is animated, and the way it looks in motion is how I've always imagined Octarine, the color of magic from pratchett's Discworld, this neon, eye-pulling non-light, flowing around things as part liquid, part heavy gas...)
The progress on assets is going alright, just finished the first one, it took this long mostly cos I was figuring my way through Zbrush and Quixel and whatnot. Came out looking quite good imo!
I'd like to have made it more cartoony, but I dunno enough about Quixel to make that happen. If I have time I'll try to rejigger it, but if not, I can live with this.
looks pretty good :)
"I'd like to have made it more cartoony, but I dunno enough about Quixel to make that happen."
not in software but in how you do it. less detail and color variations/granules, less reliefs, more flats. would need to be drawn that way though, playing around with just effects on the finished texture might achieve the goal but i don't know how exactly to tell you, i'd have to play around with it for myself
Oh of course, what I meant was I don't have the know-how with the program to achieve such results, and I know it can be done, it would just need some custom materials and stuff like that. I frankly also dont have the time to figure out such considering how far into the jam we are lol. I could go and completely hand paint each texture myself and make it look exactly how I want it to, but with time being a factor, and Quixel being able to knock out a result like that in about ten minutes of fiddling, I'm happy with how it is currently. A more cartoony look is just a luxury at this point lol.
yes, sorry, should have understood or at least looked at what quixel is (btw wow, looks pretty powerful), but i was already too caught up in my own thoughts, my fault O:)
Great video, it's been a huge motivation boost! It's also amazing how you guys came up with those great looking games that all look and feel unique!
Here's my take on the subject. It's my first time making a game (so it's my first jam as well), so I'm still in a very early stage, but hopefully I'll be able to catch up and finish it on time.
Was initially excited on doing a top down puzzler
However UE4 isn't really the easiest at making grid-like puzzles (or maybe its just my inability) and after cracking my head on making a pushable block with gravity and collision, I gave up :P
Pivoted to doing a FPS instead as I was totally new to animation and 3D art. Anything with physics and inexact puzzles were going to be easier to implement in UE4. Also totally inspired by @coquigames!
The gimmick is using the light gun to zip around at light speed but at a limited range, and how that ties in with the theme is that mirrors increase your range further. Still very early stage though, and 2 weeks feels like a really short time!
Also learnt to use Geforce experience and Shadowplay to capture video footage, and it is really cool!
