GameJam 2014: January 2014

Sunday, 26 January 2014

Final post!!

Hello all!!

I know I said my thanks etc on my last post but I never really gave you a visual run through of the game for all your support so here ya go folks and a big thanks to the whole team again for being so dang awesome !!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiLxZ8G0HXo&feature=youtu.be

Slightly confused as to why the video wont upload but there's the youtube link for anyone interested! :D

Enjoy!!!

Wana play our game?!

Well go on! Stuart has uploaded it to his website :) have a bash!

http://stuartmartin-dev.com/Wolf/WolfWebBuild.html

One last thing!

Didn't think we were just gonna leave you with a couple of screenshots huh?!

Check out the gameplay video!

Thanks for all the support! Hopefully we can link you to the game whenever it appears on the Global Game Jam website :)

Peace!

- Gavin

FINAL HOUR

Hey folks !!!

Well this is gonna be the last post dont be too sad !!

We are into the last hour of the Game Jam and damn has it been some trip ! Games looking pretty sweet and the team done a great job

Well thanks for keeping with us guys and heres some final screenshots for you!!!

BYE and Thanks :D

Saturday, 25 January 2014

Deadlines a' comin' ! 07:56

We're almost at 1000 views! It's awesome to see people showing an interest in the development of our game!

I'm no artist but I'm helping out with assets. In the last post I revealed the name of our game, Wolf.

Check out the in game logo!

Can you tell I made it? If not then I guess that might be a good thing haha.

Happy jamming!

- Gavin

Shh...I'm quiet! 07:32

So Charlie left me in charge of the blog but I've been hella busy working with the team overnight trying to get assets finished and working with Stuart (Programmer) so that each scene is how the designers envisioned it. We aren't quite at the polish stage yet game wise but some of the assets are being tided up by the team.

So the rabbit from the last post look pretty neat huh? Well check this out!

Look at it go! We've implemented most of the scenes where the rabbit makes a cheeky appearance; we're working on the last one just now. I have some more art assets to show you but it's too big of a spoiler to show you all! You'll just have to play the game when we post it up on the Global Game Jam site.

Oh! This is a biggie, we now have a name for our game... a simple game name mind you... and you would totally have never seen it coming.

Wait for it!

Wolf.

I know, I know... but we like it! It's nice and simple while not giving anything away. Our game is an experience waiting to be had so now you know what to search on the Jam site! We'll post a link up on here anyway when we're done so stay tuned.

I'll try and get some gameplay footage up but for the mean time we're busy busting out the remaining work. Submission is in 6 hours! Wish us luck!

- Gavin

Post Number 13! Time 21.14

Hello again !

One more post to keep you guys on the edge of your seats till we have more assets added to our game !

More bunny!!!

Okay this will be my last post for a while so I'm letting Gavin take over for a bit ! I will take over again tomorrow at 8am for the final countdown ! :D

See yah all then dont be too rough on Gavin !

Post Number 12 ! Time 20.24

Hello again !

I know I promised some shots of the game in play but be patient friends ! To appease you though here are some of the rabbit character sketches and concepts ! :D

Character Model

Original Character Concepts

Mood Board used to create concepts

All art work for the characters was supplied and animated by Kayleigh ! :D Hope you guys enjoy and stay tuned for more updates as the night goes on ! :D

Keeep tuned!

Hello again,

Been pretty quite for a while now but hold up once a few tweaks have been made the basic first version of the game with changes into the new areas of the game will be proposed... after this assets will be added to the game making it even more sweet...

Things are looking good so stay tuned in the next hour more scenes of the game will be added !

So stay tuned guys :)

Post Number 11!! Time 18.21

Hello all!!

I have been given charge of the initial narrative for the game this has been sent forward to the rest of the group and our programmer for polishing and implementing this first version of the narrative into the game !!

No screen shots this time sadly however when I get new content I will post it up as soon as possible :D

See ya Soon!

THIS JUST IN TEAM NAME IS A GO!!!! TIME 16.43

Hello ... this just in we have finally agreed on a team name !!!

We are GRIMM TALES!!!

Now Just a game name... got a few hours yet for that :)

See yah all in a bit food is calling !! :D

Post number 10! Time 16.14

Hello :D

Heres a pretty special one for all you guys be impressed at Kayleigh's handy work !!!

First animation for the wolf is looking pretty sweet :D

Post Number 9! Time 15.50

Hello !!!! :D

Just a quick update with some assets of the game... here is a wee dock item made on Maya ! :D

A closer image of the wolf family !

And finally the initial design of the start screen !

Things fitting together well and the team are working great everyone's pitching in... maybe because this is because we all had a sleep who knows? More than likely the sleep everyone loves a sleep !

More to come later as soon as I have some images for you guys :P

Post Number 8 !!! Time 14.50

Hello readers !!

Did you miss me ? Well don't answer that ...

So after the team got a nap some longer than others (me I like to sleep) however now that we are all back in work mode I had a talk with our artists things are looking great most of the environment is done and our character animations are looking great.

I've been told by an expert its just coloring and rendering to be done... that sounds in my opinion pretty impressive!!

Well I look forward to the rest of the day and will get back to you with more updated throughout !!

:D

Friday, 24 January 2014

Post Number 7 ! Time 05.13

Hello again :o

Tiredness is setting in with the group so I think this may be my last post for a few hours as I am weak and need sleep...

The rest of the team is looking pretty shattered to, I'd put up images but I'm sure you all know what a tired team mate looks like however I do have one final image to share for you all a screen shot of the game with our main character in an environment !

Well if that wasn't enough how about a quick image of a trial run of our build on an android device ? Whats that I hear ??? Yes ... well its your lucky day folks !

If that's not all... I keep getting more content ... WOAH lots of great images !!! Okay heres quite a cute photo for all you fans of well wolfs and smaller wolves.. or even WOLF PACKS ! ... Well you get the idea ... here ya go :)

More concepts from our awesome artists will follow in a later blog... as of now I'm signing off for a bit as I need some sleep. However I will keep you guys updated of all future works tomorrow ! See ya all soon... ish :)

Post Number 6! Time 3.05

Hello again readers!!!

As you can see its getting proper into the early hours however success! Strength and awesomeness... Okay the mad skills of our programmer and artists combined made this lovely image taken directly from the Unity game engine... things are starting to take some fine shape !!!!

I hope your enjoying reading if so, READ ON !!!! Early concepts of the game are looking good well done team, even at this time in the morning we are still productive KEEEPP GOING !!!

See ya all soon :D

PS still looking for valid team name... as Team Taps Aff definitely isn't applicable however much I want it to be D:

Post Number 5, Time 2.03

Hello again!

Okay so me and Gavin went through an intial timeline for the game ! Gavin was the artist and we both agreed on which structure suits best and how it flows including any needed dialogue or narrative in each scene !

The following art work was completed for reference material by Gavin!

Here are the results !

Start of time line

Middle of timeline

End of timeline

Apologies for the bad photo quality they are being done by phone but I hope you all get the general idea... and more so I hope you have enjoyed reading so far... More to come later :D

Post number 4, Time 01.13

Hello again! Team name is still in the works Taps Aff may have not been a good original idea... we will replace this before the weekend is over !

So more artwork has been done have a wee gander ?

Some more of the environment, whale is debatable!

Initial concepts for our wee main character !

Okay so lets have a look at our team in action at this early hour of the morning!!!

Designers hard at work and possibly the only snap you'll see of me our writer and your host ! Early concepts of our idea are coming to fruition and each of the different scenes of the game are being talked over and developed!

Stress has gotten to Fraser ... is it all too much ? Will he crack ... I hope not or maybe its raining inside ???

Gavin our hero of the thumbnails, hard at work explaining his ideas and how he wants certain aspects of the game to run !!! Hopefully he breaks into dance... if he has the energy!

Stuart hard at work making or vision a reality ! Come on stay strong you can do it !!!

More discussion is that all we designers do... oh that and keep you guys updated !

Remember the concept art from before well that's all down to these guys !!

Okay so far the project is going well and its going into the early hours now tiredness doesn't seem to have set in yet possibly down to the caffeine and energy drinks !!! Everything's looking good so I suppose its goodbye for now till our next post !!! :)

Post Number 3, Time : 00.13

Hello again readers !!!

Artists have finished some initial concepts for our game, programmers programming along like some sort of programming guy and us designers are well arguing different ideas and throw ultra combos at each other till a final decision is made !

Have some art atm though .....

See yah soon dudes with more updates !!!!!

Post number 2! Time : 22.24

Hello again! :)

Okay so the team has an idea pretty fleshed out after a few discussions, energy drinks and battles... okay no battles but we have an idea ! :D

We have agreed on an interactive storybook for our idea... however I'm not gonna give too much away as you will find out with the finished project the main premise behind things :O

Artists are working away on the artwork for the book/game/projects and Stuart is starting to program away and work magic using Unity !

As for the designers we are busy working on the narrative structure for the project and implementing possible scenarios for the game to contain and for players to overcome!

Think "TENGAMI"... only with our groups twist and changes implemented to give it our own personal feel and touch!

Team name is still undiscovered .... we must think of one soon !

See ya all later :D