Deus Vault

Devlog

• Development Log 7 - Rhys Griffiths
  October 13, 2018 by RhysGriffiths

  This sprint I focused on creating some custom ivy for the game. I used an ivy generator plugin that worked off existing geometry. It was pretty straight forward, but took some experimenting to learn... Continue reading

  
• Development Log 6 - Rhys Griffiths
  October 13, 2018 by RhysGriffiths

  Our UI was standing out to me as a big problem - Liam and I had discussed our vision for the UI before and we both agreed that a sleek, minimal UI design would work well for our game. I knew I had the... Continue reading

  
• Development Log 5 - Rhys Griffiths
  October 13, 2018 by RhysGriffiths

  After a group discussion we chose to add a crossbow to the game to spice up gameplay. It fires bolts that are made from dead opponent’s spirits - so I wanted the crossbow and bolt to reflect that. I... Continue reading

  
• Development Log 4 - Rhys Griffiths
  October 13, 2018 by RhysGriffiths

  This Dev Log covers the concept art I did. These took a huge amount of work - an entire day for each one. First I've shown the thumbnails I started with. At this stage the composition, light and shado... Continue reading

  
• Development Log 7 - Tom Forwood
  October 11, 2018 by Tom Forwood

  Asset Creation (Continued) This week has essentially been more of what I've been doing for the last few weeks in terms of asset creation and making the game environment look nice. I have been been lea... Continue reading

  
• Development Log 7 - Liam McIntosh
  October 10, 2018 by DeusVault#Audio, #Scriptable Objects

  This week of development was a little slow and I found it hard to motivate myself. It was probably a combination of trying to complete other major assignments and the end of the semester. I’ve worke... Continue reading

  
• Development Log 6 - Liam McIntosh
  October 03, 2018 by DeusVault#Bug Fixes, #Player Movement, #Combat, #Camera

  Bug Fixes My first week of this development period was spent fixing various bus and issues that we found during our previous play test. Most of my work went into the starting sequence of the game. The... Continue reading

  
• Development Log 6 - Tom Forwood
  October 02, 2018 by Tom Forwood

  Asset Creation (Continued) My task on Deus Vault now is to continue creating and implementing the art assets that will make our game look and feel great to play, my favourite part of the game design p... Continue reading

  
• Development Log 5 - Tom Forwood
  September 19, 2018 by Tom Forwood

  Asset Creation After last weeks efforts to identify ways to texture large objects and generally create performant assets, this week was all about implementing many of the concepts discussed last week... Continue reading

  
• Development Log 5 - Liam McIntosh
  September 19, 2018 by DeusVault#Math, #Shaders, #UI, #Programming, #Graphics Design

  There was nothing really exciting that happened over the course of this week. My work mainly consisted of more UI work like updating visuals, fixing bugs and altering systems Updating UI Visuals and D... Continue reading

  
• Development Log 4 - Liam McIntosh
  September 12, 2018 by DeusVault#UI, #UX, #Graphics Design, #Programing

  The past couple of weeks or so has been solely dedicated to updating visuals, making new systems and tweaking existing ones for the UI. Player UI The first thing I worked on was overhauling the player... Continue reading

  
• Development Log 4 - Tom Forwood
  September 11, 2018 by Tom Forwood

  Greyboxing This week my task was to rebuild the current "mood" graybox in the game so that it was more functional for player testing and ready to have art assets placed into it. The reason we needed t... Continue reading

  
• Development Log 3 - Rhys Griffiths
  August 25, 2018 by RhysGriffiths

  I focused on 2 things since the last Dev Log. First was fixing the swipe mechanic. We made some major networking changes so that animations would synch of over the internet. I had to rewrite some of t... Continue reading

  
• Development Log 2 - Rhys Griffiths
  August 25, 2018 by RhysGriffiths

  This Dev Log covers my progress designing the level blockout. After bringing the previous level blockout into the engine, I felt like it was not satisfactory for the needs of our game. I designed a... Continue reading

  
• Development Log 3 - Liam McIntosh
  August 15, 2018 by Li_Macc

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  #Quarternions, #math, #animation, #Player Camera

  Entering the Fourth Dimension I shudder at the thought of programming any kind of object rotating in Unity because quaternions straight up scare me. Vector2 great, Vector 3 ok but add that 4th dimensi... Continue reading

  
• Development Log 3 - Tom Forwood
  August 15, 2018 by Tom Forwood

  Animation References This week the focus was on creating more animations in order to flesh out another proposed type of combat for Deus Vault. By the end of this week we were hoping to test out both... Continue reading

  
• Development Log 2 - Liam McIntosh
  August 08, 2018 by Li_Macc#UNET, #Photon, #Play Testing

  UNET to Photon Early on in the development of the game before we took on the other two members. Deus Vault’s network architecture ran on Unity’s system called UNET. This worked well for majority o... Continue reading
• Development Log 2 - Tom Forwood
  August 08, 2018 by Tom Forwood

  Retargeting Animations The first thing that needed to be done when brining the new animations into unity was to set the rig for each file to humanoid. Unity has a built in solution for animation ret... Continue reading

  
• Development Log 1 - Rhys Griffiths
  August 01, 2018 by RhysGriffiths

  Recently I joined the awesome team working on Deus Vault. I'm in charge of the Art Direction and level design. I'm currently following my plan for the first 3 weeks which is to do some rough concepts... Continue reading

  
• Development Log 1 - Liam McIntosh
  August 01, 2018 by Li_Macc#Player Movement, #Project Management, #Producing

  Development Log 1 – Liam McIntosh 16/07/18 – 1/08/18 Taking on a new role Deus Vault’s team originally consisted of me (Liam McIntosh) and Tom Forwood. Our little team worked quite well, I did... Continue reading

  
• Development Log 1 - Tom Forwood
  July 31, 2018 by Tom Forwood

  Skeletal Armature Rig This week I focused on rigging the Knight Character model that I had created over the holidays. The first major task was to actually create the skeletal rig for the mesh, which c... Continue reading