Games
Rim lighting and realtime shadows for sprites in Unity (2D) – 2/2
This second part describes how the lighting is achieved, giving that contour when the sprites get close to a light source. Phew! It has been a while since I wrote the first entry in the blog. Maybe you want to … Continued
Trespassers – Beta testing is over!
As I’m writing this post, the closed beta testing period is over, having thrown invaluable feedback from players. From errors (exceptions, mostly) and other hard-to-find bugs, to design suggestions, everything was valuable. Steam distribution Use Steam as soon as you … Continued
Rim lighting and realtime shadows for sprites in Unity (2D) – 1/2
This first post (1/2) describes the shadow casting part of the full process. The second one is still in the backlog waiting to be done 😉 Disclaimer: This is a reference for my future self, when he’d forgot how to … Continued
Using LUT for balancing the whole frame
Some months ago we were showcasing Trespassers (more shameless self promotion… in our own webpage!) at FIMP ’16, a local event that, in its 4th installment has grown so much as it can be considered a reference in the local … Continued
Designing player’s in-game classic UI
Through these years I’ve learnt that UI design is one of the hardest, widest and, maybe for begginners, more underestimated tasks in a game. Why? UI shows information about things that player should or might want to know, but are … Continued
On showcasing your demo at events
(Warning: rather lengthy post ahead) Finally! We are back from Barcelona Games World, where we assisted as one of the 20 studios that are trying to get their way to Sony Spain’s Playstation Awards final (we will know soon, on … Continued
Gamelab 2016 & IDBA: Indie’s perspective
Finally, we have arrived from Gamelab 2016, that took place at Hospitalet de Llobregat, close to Barcelona, from 29th June to 1st July. The venue was, in our opinion, better suited for the event compared to 2015: bigger and more … Continued
FMOD v2 plugin error in Unity 5
When we started working on the audio in Trespassers, we were working with the built-in audio system in Unity3D. Our designer did not have control over it. He teleworks, so the workflow needed to be as smooth as possible, as … Continued
Let’s get bloody
When you think about blood action shoot em ups you may think about a few splats here and there, or something more dynamic, bloody, gore, if you like. That’s what we thought about Trespassers. When the 5.2 Unity3D update was … Continued
Projectiles in 2D action games in Unity
In the early stages of the development of our 2D run’n gun game, Trespassers, we started to get some performance problems. One of our design goals was having tons of enemies on screen at once, and shooting them without thinking … Continued