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Development diaries for the whole project, consisting of updates to;
- Project website and marketing.
- How the game development progresses
- What have I been learning for the past week
Hello and welcome to this weeks Dev Diary!
Today I would like to continue where I left off last week and that is texturing of the created heightmap. As it happens every so often, I had to redo the heightmap for two reasons;
Hello and welcome to this weeks Dev Diary!
Today's topics revolve around my attempts to create a height mapped terrain. As mentioned earlier, after several hours of watching tutorials and finding most of them lacking in beginner friendliness, I was a tad frustrated to say the least. But afte…
Hello and welcome to this weeks Dev Diary!
Today I will be talking about some examples of the building and advancement related mechanics of the RTS title and some trivia about the history of the location, where the first map will be based on.
Also note that this Dev Diary contains an Eas…
Hello and welcome to this weeks Dev Diary!
It has been a sincerely exhausting week, as learning the ropes with Blender has been all but convenient. And here is why;
Yet Some More Simple LessonsI started of with some beginner tutorials for how to make landscapes from heightma…
Hello and welcome to this weeks Dev Diary!
Today I'll explain some of my last weeks ups and downs and explain the importance of setting up your tools properly for your work style, before doing major changes to your graphical works.
The Mistake
On an earlier dev diary, I mentio…
Hello, and welcome to this weeks Dev Diary!
Today's topic is a short and simple update. I have been ironing out the Patreon page and working on the graphics of the tiers for the last week. I have been trying out several styles in the graphical design, but mostly I have done work with the tex…
Hello all and welcome to 31st Dev Diary for Project Taival! This weeks subjects are;
This last week has been more productive in a concrete way, tha…
Hello, and welcome to this weeks Dev Diary! Today I'll keep this sweet and short by explaining the current situation of the project, in order to do some public book keeping in following order;
- Horror -title
- RTS -title
- Video production
- Hardware issues
Hello and welcome to this weeks Dev Diary! Todays topic will be the mythological and cultural inspiration for the games that are currently under development.
Bare in mind, that there will be similarities to every other pre-christian religion and way of life and I'm fully aware of that. These…
Hello all and welcome to this weeks Dev Diary! As mentioned in an earlier Dev Diary (If Memory Serves), I got a new pair of memory, in order to upgrade my 8gb of RAM to 16gb. This did ease the situation with After Effect, as the results can t…
Hello and welcome to this weeks Dev Diary! Today I would like to reveal more features for the RTS - Citybuilder -title.
Dynamic Borders
Border systems are quite rare in RTS games, but not entirely new idea either. Empire Earth 2 had static borders for predetermined regions, which…
Summer greetings from Somero, Finland and welcome to the "26th Dev Diary", that has only little (but something) to do with the actual game. While most of the time here has been for relaxing and some manual labor when helping my wife's family with the crop field upkeep, I took some time with my w…
Hello, and welcome to this weeks Dev Diary This week I have some more feature reveals for the upcoming RTS-Citybuilder.
This update was pre-written on Tuesday last week, as I have been on vacation since 20th of June (20.06.2019) and had to prepare several non-project related things for it, …
Hello yet again and welcome to this weeks Dev Diary! This weeks topics are;
- What's happening behind the scenes.
- Various ideas that have been popping up.
As mentioned in last weeks Dev Diary, I have been trying to order an affordable pair of high performan…
Hello, and welcome to the 23rd Dev Diary This week is more of a sitrep on the project planning, than anything else.
First though, a situation update regarding the memory kit I ordered - RipjawsX F3-1600C9D-16GXM;
The first choice was made because the memory kit was relatively cheap cons…
Hello and welcome to the 22nd Dev Diary!
I have been busy with background research and making a couple of low quality mockups, as promised last week and they definitively are low quality ones. Even though the final looks will be nothing like them, they functioned as a simple test of how to d…
Hi, and welcome to this weeks dev diary!
First, I must apologize for not having had anything interesting to show for a long time now. Most of the time that could have been used for something productive have sunken into technical difficulties and optimizing the settings of various software th…
Hello and welcome to this weeks Dev Diary for Project Taival!
For the past two weeks I have been trying to find solutions for the slow rendering times, but haven't found anything that would be sure to fix the problem - other than to render on lower quality. Which brings me to one of this wee…
Hi and Welcome to this weeks Dev Diary! Unfortunately this week I don't have any pictures to show for the progress, as I have not been able to make any prototypes this week.
I have, how ever, been doing research on the various ways that the text could be done, and it seems that pursuing full…
Hi, and welcome to the 18th Dev Diary! I honestly thought that this week was going to be all about the 3D texts, but as it happens, there seems to be always a surprise or two behind the corner when you least expect it.
a Forced Re-DesignI started watching some tutorials for how to make…
Hi and welcome to this weeks Dev Diary! This is going to be the last Dev Diary to exclusively concentrate on the floor texture alone. This week is going to be dedicated for making and texturing the floating 3D texts for the "Now Playing" announcements.
A Month, In Short
It has tak…
Hello, it's that time of the week again - a Dev Diary -day! This weeks topics are yet again around the after effects project and it seems I'm close to having results that I can live with.
The Long Road of Fiddling
For the past week I have continued to test several ways of bringing…
Hello and welcome to this weeks Dev Diary!
This weeks topics are;
- Some performance perspective.
- Progress on the video graphics.
- Some reveals on the mobile game.
Despite how much I like working with After effects, I must say yet again - it's very ti…
Hello, and welcome to this weeks Dev Diary!
Unfortunately the video has been really slow in the making, as the After Effects seems to be bogged down more and more. The last weeks remedy worked for a while and the program hasn't crashed after that, but overall, it is still very slow to render…
Hello all and welcome to this weeks Dev Diary! Today I would like to talk about the status of the Asset Creation Video, as that is all I have been tinkering with this whole week. Without further ado >
Status Update
Despite After Effects crashing and losing my progress several t…
Hello again, and welcome to the 12th Dev Diary for Project Taival
This weeks subjects are;
- Progress report on the asset making videos
- Improved intro video
- Genre of the 2D game
The first part of the first asset creation video has been fully edite…
Hello again, nice to see you at this weeks Dev Diary!
This weeks topics are;
- More YouTube content coming.
- a Simpler game to be the first one to come out.
Without further ado;
Content Updates
My dear friend asked me if I had planned any Live-Streaming of my work…
Welcome to the ninth Dev diary of Project Taival!
Today's topic is Menu graphics. For the last week, I have been planning and doing Menus for the test version of the game, so it is easier to quit than always having to resort to Windows task manager. The first menu I started designing though,…
