Monday, July 26, 2010

Emo Unicorn


Say Hello to the Emo Unicorn!

The Emo Unicorn comes from a loving family who live in the Unicorn Palace far up in the mountains. Unfortunately his parents have spoilt him rotten with Skate Ramps, Drum Kits and rare collection of Lances. This has caused the Emo Unicorn to turn into a spoilt, selfish little brat who cares only about himself.

Don't upset him or he will blind you with his magical ability to sick up deadly rainbows!



Monday, July 19, 2010

Hallam newsletter

Have just seen that there's an article about the two Sheffield Dare teams in this months Alumni newsletter:

http://www.shu.ac.uk/news/release.html?ID=664

Friday, July 16, 2010

It's alive!


Today Grrr! went alpha. The first two players were Mark and Tom, and Tom absolutely hammered Mark with 4 kills to none. He was so happy when this happened he actually danced a little, but then we realised that due to a bug Tom's team had been invulnerable, so he had to stop dancing and go back to work.

A few minutes later the bug had been patched, and the second match was played, with Stefan beating Mark, and then going on a winning streak of 3 games unbeaten before it crashed again when one of the crabs tried to teleport outside the level. Needless to say there are a lot of bugs which need patching, and lots more stuff needs adding, but it was a great to see our game come to life.

The picture above and the video below are of our test map, and as such looks a little bit rubbish. Soon though we'll have all our art-assets in and it'll look like the renders we posted up last week. Obviously there is a lot more to add (powerups, death animations, particle effects) but when they are all done we'll get to see exactly how good our game is, and that's what we're here for.






Monday, July 12, 2010

Our team image: The smoking gun


Above is our team-image as submitted for the protoplay program etc.

We've gone for a Frankenstein/Skynet type thing. Thankfully so far the only casualties have been Tom and Stefan, my least favorite group members.

Thursday, July 8, 2010

Introducing...


The Emo-unicorn!

He's now been handed off to Tom for rigging and animating, so hopefully we'll see him in action before too long.

One thing we're still not sure of is how he should attack, we have 3 options. Should he shoot a rainbow out of his:

  • Horn
  • Mouth
  • Bum
Answers in the comments or on twitter please.

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Emo-Unicorn's Castle



Above you can see the asset set we'll be using for our first level, the home of our Emo-unicorn. This is just a quick layout to get scale right and see how everything fits together, but soon we'll have it ingame and will modify the layout for gameplay.

The unicorn prince is a spoilt brat who lives with his royal parents in what can only be described as a bloody huge castle. Since he turned 13 he started listening to the kind of music that makes the Beatles cry and subsequently decided that he wants to be more alternative, hence the half-pipe and ridiculous Hifi his parents have bought for their heir. The usually well behaved prince was left home-alone (apart from the 234 live in staff) when his parents went on holiday to Nania and he decided to hold a party, unfortunately this party was gatecrashed by various evil doers, and now a fight has broken out. A fight which you must win.


Here are some closeups of some of the assets:

Shark Animations!!!!



Introducing RoboShark!

RoboShark's goal is to infiltrate the human world by creating the perfect land suit so no one will suspect that he is from the sea. However, this isn't easy as he has a huge blue head full of evil teeth and has to shower every 10 minutes.

BEWARE!
He is very resourceful with disguises and can blend into any environment, he may even be standing next to you right now!!!!