As some of you may have noticed in old screenshots, we had a few placeholder statues around the island. I designed these when I joined the project almost four years ago, and a while back Luis sculpted a couple of nice final ones. However, as we were finalizing some areas, we …
It seems like a good time to do one of these, since the island is pretty much all figured out! We have been wrapping up a lot of big tasks, working on some cool effects, and doing a bit of polishing and bugfixing. While we still have some things to …
Last Sunday morning was exceptionally beautiful and sunny, and so I decided to spend the day reorganizing the office. When we moved in two years ago, we just pulled things out of the moving boxes and shoved them here and there so we could get to work as quickly as possible, …
Last weekend, Jon, Andy and Luis headed to Vegas to show the game to the public for the first time! We spent over a week play testing, bug fixing, designing the booth, printing banners, and re-designing the website. It was encouraging to see that the game was already in very good …
We are all working hard, hence the silence on the blog. Always appreciate the kind words in the replies, so I wanted to at least add a quick new wallpaper to say thanks. Hope you like it!
Some spoiler free architectural detail shots of a place I’ve been working on:
Just wanted to do a quick post saying that we are all working hard on the game, figuring out some of the last unknowns and polishing things up. We are definitely in finish-the-game mode, that’s why the posts have gotten more rare. Here is a shot of the finalized hub …
This was a very productive day but visually less noticeable. A lot of “invisible’ stuff got done like collision and occluders to make the area decently playable: The center building is now complete and we got the layout for the ruined walls so the major task for tomorrow is to …
Here is the progress for today. Detail has been added to the rest of the walls and towers as well as windows and other smaller features. We’ve had some discussions about the style of the battlements so those might change tomorrow or after. Here are the new modular pieces that were …
Sometimes people ask me for advice on how to program, and I have to say that Casey’s advice here is right on: http://mollyrocket.com/casey/stream_0019.html Meanwhile, we’ve had a lot of Witness Wednesday posts in a row on this blog. I’ll have to stop slacking and write something about the game.