This second part describes how the lighting is achieved, providing that contour when the sprites get close to a light source. Phew! It has been a while since I wrote the first entry of this topic in the blog. Maybe … Continued
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
Disclaimer: This is a reference for my future self, when he’d forgot how to get this working, and for everyone interested in learning about the process I followed. “Necessity is the mother of invention”. I had previously implemented fake realtime … Continued
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 difficult to express in … Continued
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 he … Continued
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 released, we were looking … Continued
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 twice. … Continued
Months ago, while preparing the Gamelab 2015 build of Trespassers, we were thinking about how could we tell bits of the story inside the game. But things were that we had no time to develop a full cinematic for every bit of the … Continued
One of our design decisions with Trespassers was that we wanted lots of enemies at the same time. Not smart, but you should be always outnumbered. Thus, that meant that we had to make the most out of the resources available, and … Continued
Although this would be our first entry in the dev blog talking about Trespassers, we have been working in the game for several months right now, although not full time though. As we are approaching our Steam Greenlight release, we are focusing on … Continued