The particle system is made with Unreal Engine Cascade, texture is made with Adobe Photoshop, mesh model is made with Autodesk 3DS Max and simplified using Simplygon (tool included in Unreal Engine’s Static Mesh Editor). I could probably have shrunk the size of the final diffuse texture map and discarded a lot of the details – but it was fun making and it’s even more fun showing off (possible re-use for assets like trees and the like).

I’ve been inactive for a while – hopefully I’ll be able to create a bit more content the following weeks.…

Another article about the development diary of Bark.

In this article I’ve decided to do a more theoretic approach to the development of our game. It will include a few tips on how I tackle the what and aaaah moments I’ve had along the way of developing our game so far as an independent game developer.

I love ideas, I love lists, I love processes and things that have a plan behind the action. Design process, those are words of delight to the organized (or perhaps unorganized) mind.

So.. Let’s actually take a few steps back before we take one leap forward.…

I’ve also redone the design of the player ship, I felt it had to be done to fit the pixel style, which also animate (3 frames per sprite). I’ll keep this blog post up to date as I keep making assets, it’s a bunch of fun and something that is quite easy to do compared to my usual work.…

The development team numbered a total of six people, developing in the Unreal Development Kit (Unreal Engine 3).

My tasks on the team consisted of

• assisting with ideas and input for game mechanics and events
• creating concept art for various assets
• creating tileable textures for the cave floor
• advanced shader materials (vertex blending)
• level design/dressing
• special effects (particles)
• lighting
• collision optimization

I also dipped my hands in a small amount of Kismet and Matinee for simple things like playing sounds, fracture within a triggered area on a key press, or playing a fly through cutscene.…

The story behind our name originated from a news story about a moose who got stuck on the roof of a mall and fell down into its own death. It’s quite random. We needed a logo for branding ourselves, but we weren’t exactly sure what to go for: Do we make a very literate illustration of a moose on a roof, or do we skip that and just make something that will stand out and overall work as a good and unique logo?…

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Here’s a new segment I’ll try to throw up on the blog once in a while. I want this segment to be a window from development out to whoever is interested in how parts of game development is done. I’ll share some words and technical insight into the development of Bark, an adventure game I’m currently helping develop at Roofmoose.

My current task on the team is to create particle systems in Unreal Development Kit, using a framework called Cascade. It’s a very interesting and exciting task to be given, but also slightly overwhelming. Particles, or special effects, for a game is probably more important than most people think!…

Enough philosophical thoughts! Here are the designs I’ve made so far before ending up on the current logo.

What do you think? Have any experience or design processes to share in terms of getting the best design possible and landing the perfect logo?…

Player character for “From Darkness”, a game design I’ve been playing around with for several years. It’s still a bunch of ideas and concepts, I might make something out of it some day.…

Assignment where I used the “Pendulum” preset (aetuts.com) for After Effects. I made a infomercial on the average amount of water an adult human-being should drink every day.…