Monday, November 29, 2010

An Update

Hey everyone,

havent made a post in a while.

I been really busy the last couple of weeks working on some job applications and tests.
However it's all paid off as I'm starting a new job this week for a game company. It's only doing QA work but its a step in the right direction. Plus its for a company doing game's i'm really passionate about so it should be a lot of fun.

I'm still working on my gears of war level and after some feedback from a level designer friend i've been making some modifications for the better.
Hopefully i'll get the grey box finished soon. I've been taking things a bit slower with this level latelly as after 6 months of constant portfolio work I've enjoyed having a week of relaxing and getting back into games again.

Been really enjoying Nba Jam on xbox 360 and the new cataclysm changed in world of warcraft look amazing.

Saturday, November 6, 2010

Elevator Evacuation Greybox Update.

So i've finished blocking out my gears of war level up until the start of the berserker fight.
I have decided that i'm going to leave the end boss fight in this level for now as I really want to get this level finished quickly so I can put it up in my portfolio. I may return to it after I have finished the level.

Anyway I have finished blocking out all the basics for the level.
Been a lot of mucking around with kismet as i'm learning all the basics. Moving an elevator with button triggers turning on and off was a bit of a pain.
If you watch the Video below you will notice there are still a lot of lighting issues with the elevator as I'm having trouble getting the dynamic light to move with the elevator.

Also the second courtyard fight needs a lot of tweaking as the enemies tend to just run forward towards the player instead of being defensive. Im guessing setting up proper cover groups might fix this.

Another thing to note the basement where you encounter wretches doesn't look that hard in video but in the final version of the map this area is going to be really dark so its going to be a lot harder to see where the wretches are.

Anyway any feedback at all is appreciated

Please see the HD video on youtube. below
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLQTwHo6hY0