Finally finished University

I've finally finished University and began developing some plat-former games. I've reorganised my blog ready to post more regular updates now I'm now longer maintaining and writing lots of university assignments. University has gone really well I'm got a strong chance of graduating with a 1st class honours depending on my group work grades. Something which also went really well I worked tirelessly to make sure the game was well documented for the hand in and it had enough environment art textures.

The game ended up winning an internal vote of being the best out of the 12 teams this year and will be put forward sometime during the summer to an indie game site by the University. The university will also be showcasing my environment art across their new website and my dissertation won 2nd in games modelling during the GradEx event, which I'm made up about.

I've been working on two plat-former projects, the first is an Unreal Engine 4 game called Trousers 2 and is a 3D sequel to a game previously made by my college Leon Field;  you can play the original trousers game following the gamejolt link below

http://gamejolt.com/games/platformer/trousers/17534/

I've been focused on creating environment art for Trousers 2 as opposed to script or level design, as we port across and reinvent the original game content.

The other project is a 2D plaformer adventure game I spent an evening creating pixel art for then begin creating the game framework in c# Unity2D yesterday. I'm using the project to further my understanding and practice with the language and to have fun making my first complete in web browser game, which I will be posting my company website in the near future.

Thanks for reading

-Andy

Spirit Day and Blockade Map

Been working on a death-match map for blockade, still works with the power progress I've decided to keep that consistent throughout the game. Been interesting designing maps with a heavier emphasis on verticle mobility and jump distances. Especially since most the plat-former stuff I've done before besides my Kirby map for CS has been quite linear. So mixing Multi-player pathing with plat-forming paths has been a good challenge so far.

The map also contains teleport/portal like pipes and moving platforms. Been ill for the first time in awhile yesterday but i got around to redoing one of my paintings for Spirit Day http://stormandy.deviantart.com/art/Spirit-Day-Inner-Universe-333255181

Little update for the progress with my Unreal Game Blockade

So i've got an atlas (1 texture maps) for all my 64x64 materials and cut it up into 16x16. Got the ideas from Minecraft textures packs/sheets. Using the material editor I've divided up the texture space and altered the UV's to view one section and offset the UV's for each material I've made referencing to the same texture.

Also used the same material set-up to pixelize drop the rez of the results in the sky-dome materials to create I nice looking voxel sky. The done the same to one my own grass textures for a quick floor placeholder.

I've coded the destructible blocks to store an up-datable material instance, so I can offset the uv's of a texture which stores a damage overlay for my materials, I can eventually make a better looking and unique one for each material however for now I've made a quick generic ones for testing purposes.

Scalar Paramater setup which is passed to the code which calculates the blocks health percentage remaining and uses a case statement to update the block to the appropriate UV space of the damage overlay.

 Test texture