been playtesting and working on the new ui elements from last week’s list in order to further cement the finalized look of it.

I’m a bit torn on font selection, since i want a specific look and feel for things you have to read that are related to the level (say, reading a log/book/note or just prompts like “this door is closed”), and an entirely different aesthetic for the numbers, messages during battle and menus which is more pixel art and computer-looking, so i’ll probably have to hit the books on ui/ux design to see what are the best practices.

& finally wrapped up the essential rooms from the setpiece and checked the puzzle results trigger as intended. I had one scare where a multi-part one just didn’t want to activate properly but turns out those specifically break if the key item was already in the inventory, so we gotta fix that too.

I need to up my game to be honest, past couple days have been a bit slow/all about grinding but haven’t been able to properly balance a couple things in my day to day activities in order to get some good work done without killing myself.

in n1rvanna news, lark just finished an important outline for the game and what’s left needs to be discussed with the team.

All in all some good was done! tomorrow should be interesting since i gathered a pretty beefy list of details to tweak and fix from today’s playtesting.

another day another couple rooms, only 4 left! lots of props made today, some of them unique that won’t be used anywhere else.

newprogrammer has only a few items left from the editor so he might be jumping to project d soon-ish, providing a lot of the items go through revision…

ludum dare this weekend!

more prop-making for the rooms in the dungeon and partially finished the one i was working on, so only five rooms remain! had some issues with the lightmaps but apparently i only have to keep increasing texel size until the artifacts go away????? shit works in mysterious ways, and it’s probably the way i do these rooms.

also spent most of the day working on the animations i mentioned yesterday, they came out nice and the answer was indeed to work it on blender instead of using umotion in unity. umotion i feel should be used mostly to edit already existing animations instead of making them from scratch. like, it can totally do the latter but blender is just too comfy.

that said these animations are mostly placeholders (for as long as they took me…) as i already began looking for nice freelance 3d animators that can provide extra animation clips. while i might have already found someone, please if you got some cool skills shoot me an email to hellyeahmoney@sukeban.moe so i can have you in my shortlist even if i don’t reply back.

Newprogrammer is almost done with the new features in the n1rvanna story editor so that’s pretty cool, though a lot of nodes are awaiting for feedback and… well, i’m not the one who has to provide said feedback so that can take god knows how long.

finished the model for the midboss (topology, texturing and rigging) and kept struggling to animate it for the rest of the day. I’m doing something really wrong here and i must find out what cause i don’t wanna waste more time doing this!!! animation is all fun and games except when it doesn’t look like the thing you had in mind, so i gotta regroup and maybe do every clip in blender instead of unity.

new programmer is probably still working on the n1rvanna tool.

that’s it for this kinda disappointing day…

didn’t feel like i did a whole lot, but looking back i did get some shit done that i’ve been posponing, like decorating the rooms in the setpiece we are making (2 out of 7 or 8 rooms already mostly finished), doing props for those and began modeling the midboss from that very setpiece.

newprogrammer is still doing N1rvanna Story Editor stuff.

all in all pretty comfy, mostly just grinding instead of struggling and i prefer things to be this way.

worked pretty long hours and managed to almost finish the scene i was talking about. almost finish in the sense that i have a really solid grasp on the atmosphere, colors, textures and architechture i want to use and now i populate with props and all kinds of cool things. won’t show it just yet cause it really is an impressive vista, at least for me, so i wanna wait till i can set the scene up properly.

as yesterday, newprogrammer is still working on the story creator features. he stumbled upon a small hurdle on the way but it was already solved.

ufc tomorrow wheee

forgot to update before going to bed hehe

more work on the office scene, added more props and played around with another lighting pass, giving certain objects a very subtle specular that greatly helped to ground stuff into the world.

also began blocking out one of the bigger, recurrent places so this one is getting extra care and i’m taking it slowly. doing the kits meticulously so it looks badass.

newprogrammer is still working on more story creator features and it’s gonna be like this for a while more.

back after a short made up holiday

been modeling new scenes for the game, this time focusing on the Rozen Kreuz office. What’s Rozen Kreuz, you ask? well, the core premise of project D is that of a private bounty hunting agency pursuing… very unique outlaws.

I thought the place was looking pretty already after the lighting pass so i took the chance to take a group picture.

Reila Mikazuchi is the character i’ve been showing the most, but from left to right we have: Clark Renton, Reila Mikazuchi, Sarasvati, Faust Panzer, and Juliette Kidman.

more details on them later!

aside from this newprogrammer has been knee deep since yesterday with more features for the n1rvanna story tool and i’ve also been reviewing n1rvanna’s outline in order to iron out the bigger plot points and details. it’s coming along real nice!

most of my work on september 17 summed up to UI work and enemy design and reviewing new features like item crafting that still need some work to function just right. reminder here that i seriously need to get around polishing the rifle stance.

i didn’t work on friday as i decided to finish my piece for the ghm zine and answer some emails for cool stuff we be cookin. i’m currently doing a small gamejam with newprogrammer so a cool game might be out by monday!

Here’s my screenshot saturday contribution from this week. some fun grenade attacks that no longer break the player’s animations!