Kay has finally finished the high-res poster made especially for donors to the BBA project!
Our coders are still plugging along on the networking end of the code, as well as consolidating some of the engine code. We may have something neat to show off at Anthrocon - it will be a while before we have anything downloadable though!
See you at Anthrocon!
Sunday, June 22, 2008
Sunday, June 8, 2008
Engine finalizing and Tech Demo
Well, we've got the "gemstone" engine in hand from Ilya at Valen Games, along with a quick and dirty tech demo he's made to show off some of its game-making potential. Our goal is to have a small but playable walking demo (with some nicely touched up art) for Anthrocon in a few weeks. With some luck we may have rudimentary networking support (walking 2 wolves, chat, login).
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Developer's Meeting tonight!
Three of our four-member programming team will be meeting tonight (along with the fourth member via online chat) to flesh out some more of the design specs. The game's engine is in demo-testing phase and will soon be ready for use in our game.
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Take a walk with a wolf
Our artists have finished an initial walking series for the wolf in 8 directions. You can move along all major axis points of a compass using the directional pads through a simple terrain environment.
Simple, yes! But vital - we will be testing how the animations flow, add various tweens, and probably implement a run/gallop pace if necessary down the road.
For in-game purposes, your wolf will be very expressive - with hot-key mappings to show various expressions or to move into several stances (playful, aggressive, etc)
Maybe we'll send some screenshots or a video of our mysterious pink wolf in motion - in the coming weeks anyway - so stay tuned!
Simple, yes! But vital - we will be testing how the animations flow, add various tweens, and probably implement a run/gallop pace if necessary down the road.
For in-game purposes, your wolf will be very expressive - with hot-key mappings to show various expressions or to move into several stances (playful, aggressive, etc)
Maybe we'll send some screenshots or a video of our mysterious pink wolf in motion - in the coming weeks anyway - so stay tuned!
Saturday, May 17, 2008
Walking/Animation Tests
We've got walking animations for our main wolf character (the one you'd customize) working in a sample environment! We can now begin scaling the art to proper sizes - we want a balance between detailed artwork and playable terrain area. If the wolves are too large, you may only fit 5-10 on screen comfortably before it becomes too crowded. So, we'll be testing file size/dimensions while the programmers keep clicking away at the engine.
In the meantime, we're looking for ways to record wolves or acquire some authentic wolf samples....
In the meantime, we're looking for ways to record wolves or acquire some authentic wolf samples....
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Further Chronicles
Ilya of Valen Games is in the final stages of his revolutionary game development engine! :)
In a short amount of time (remember: game development time moves at a slower pace than normal time), he'll begin integrating this code with our other team to produce the meat of the game - its interactive content.
Our graphic coders are handling simple tests to integrate character animations and other on-screen movement using our graphics code-base (SDL, Open GL, etc).
The Project Darkstar research is still chugging along - and the most vital part of the game, (the server end!) will be integrated largely using Darkstar's codebase. They've released a new update that allows for scalable servers, among other things (just in case the game gets THAT popular!).
Momentum is high still, thanks to Kay's dedicated fan-base! See, not many programmers (even those at large game studios) are quite used to working on a project knowing that there is a huge fan base dying to play it..
You know what they say : Pressure makes Diamonds.
(That, plus a lot of time)
In a short amount of time (remember: game development time moves at a slower pace than normal time), he'll begin integrating this code with our other team to produce the meat of the game - its interactive content.
Our graphic coders are handling simple tests to integrate character animations and other on-screen movement using our graphics code-base (SDL, Open GL, etc).
The Project Darkstar research is still chugging along - and the most vital part of the game, (the server end!) will be integrated largely using Darkstar's codebase. They've released a new update that allows for scalable servers, among other things (just in case the game gets THAT popular!).
Momentum is high still, thanks to Kay's dedicated fan-base! See, not many programmers (even those at large game studios) are quite used to working on a project knowing that there is a huge fan base dying to play it..
You know what they say : Pressure makes Diamonds.
(That, plus a lot of time)
Friday, May 2, 2008
Project Leads and programmers declared!
Thanks to everyone's donations we have now established a Lead Programmer for our project - the founder of Valen Games, Ilya Olvensky, who created Lunar Domination, will be using his customized game engine to help deliver a great product for all fans of the Blackblood Alliance!
Ilya's Valen Games will be partnering up with Arrowtooth Studios, Red Leader Audio, and Moya Entertainment to form a complete package!....almost! We've also got 2 more coders on board (yet to be named!) who will be helping establish our networking framework using an open source Java code-base called Project Darkstar.
Stay tuned!
Ilya's Valen Games will be partnering up with Arrowtooth Studios, Red Leader Audio, and Moya Entertainment to form a complete package!....almost! We've also got 2 more coders on board (yet to be named!) who will be helping establish our networking framework using an open source Java code-base called Project Darkstar.
Stay tuned!
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Initial Donations Met
We've met our mark of collection $2,000.00 for payment to programmers, and for payment of the tools that we're licensing.
Our team meeting tomorrow should clear up where our technologies stand, and what our series of milestones should focus on.
We've got meetings for programmers from 3D Realms and Bethesda Softworks coming up in the next few weeks for consultation and possible small contract work as well.
In the meantime, we will begin work on the logic for the combat engine, and templating the combat moves.
Kay and Erin are working on the poster that we will distribute to our top donors in 2 weeks when the collection period closes (along with the new pages of the comic).
Our team meeting tomorrow should clear up where our technologies stand, and what our series of milestones should focus on.
We've got meetings for programmers from 3D Realms and Bethesda Softworks coming up in the next few weeks for consultation and possible small contract work as well.
In the meantime, we will begin work on the logic for the combat engine, and templating the combat moves.
Kay and Erin are working on the poster that we will distribute to our top donors in 2 weeks when the collection period closes (along with the new pages of the comic).
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Blog and Donations Online
The BBA Game project will try to move into high gear soon, hopefully acquiring more programming resources and finishing a proper compilation of our engine build by the end of May.
Once game developments make significant progress, we will begin using this blog to help our dedicated fans stay up to date, as well as provide release notes, etc.
Once game developments make significant progress, we will begin using this blog to help our dedicated fans stay up to date, as well as provide release notes, etc.
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