tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22655573094471468112024-10-06T20:28:28.438-07:00A blog about video game design, concept art, video game production, game technology and life as a video game design studentzedkhovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04482381426799522201noreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2265557309447146811.post-76423653327544212172011-01-07T11:02:00.000-08:002011-01-07T11:02:54.975-08:00

hey folks, Quick update. We did our alpha presentations to our mentors and some industry vets and things went swimingly...aside from a crappy projector that shows images far too dark. They liked where we went with the game. We've accomplished (and then some) all the requirements for alpha status and are now hard at work charging towards Beta. Beta comes on the 14th of this month so not much

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So, That was a well needed break. Development slowed to a crawl, as predicted working from home for a group of 5 is not a terribly productive process. We had sicknesses, traveling, difficulty communicating and, of course, the holidays and family. A comprehensive bug list has been made by yours truly while our PM works on fresh eyes work and PM duties. Our coder was tasked with refining the AI

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And The end is coming alarmingly fast. We're on "Break" now. Which means when we're back in January we'll only have 4 precious weeks to refine, polish and finish our game. Scary! Fun though, The progression of the game is coming along nicely. I've transitioned my role once again as development continues and my art and sound priorities wane. I am now taking on the primary role of QA. If you are a

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So, Thanks to those jackass hackers that decided to steal the (apparently very vulnerable) passwords from Gawker media's sites nearly an hour or so has been spent changing passwords and convincing websites that have nothing to do with gawker media (as far as I know of) such as facebook and yahoo.ca that I am indeed who I am. ...So, thanks to the fuckup by gawker and the asshole's that decided

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Already on Dev Diary 5...Time flies when you're making games. We're making good progress, slowing down a bit so the PM and I decided it was time for a 2 day weekend. The team obviously agreed. We plan to recharge and to hit the ground running on Monday. I just finished converting the game to the new art style. Instead of only high contrast on enemies and the players hands, Now everything is

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It's update time. Work on this monster of a project progresses, Things have been progressing smoothly for the most part as we met our first milestone. We have our main mechanics working, we have the majority of the art incorporated and we have a whitebox of our final level in the works. We only today finished the enemy character model, it will be my first time texturing a full character so I am

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Well, I have a bit of time on my day off here so I think I'll write an update. Development is going well. The 3d Modeler and myself ran into some serious issues with skinning the hands properly. It turned out the issue was due to a modifier we were using in 3dsm to export the models called mesh smooth. I then ran into an issue where we wanted to have 2 textures on the hands. The normal material

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Hey, Game has changed a significant amount. We're now in a basement cavern type area. (Picture the tram ride from Half Life 1, but you're able to run around those labs and caverns that intertwine with each other. The hand gun has been removed and replaced with a second "power" which is your other hand which shoots bolts of energy that stick to anything, then detonate after a short period of

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Lo all, Been an incredibly busy start to development. Having a blast. Update coming within the next day or so. Lots of big changes so be sure to come check it out.

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Hello everyone, We are rolling into our last few months of classes, which means the massive final project is full steam ahead. I've decided it would be pretty cool to document our struggle in making a commercial quality "vertical slice" of a video game done with our extremely talented 5 man time. Our jobs on the project are as follows: Zach Williams - Art, QA, Sound, misc  Matt Macmahon -

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                The game I’ve chosen to analyze today is Warhammer online (referred to as War from now on). A popular MMO from Mythic Entertainment and produced by EA. Based on the extremely popular games workshop table top models and games, War online brings the rich fantasy, brutal combat and extensive lore of Warhammer

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So, it's my first game audio track. It's a bit rough around the corners, and the volume needs to be upped a bit (pro tools exported it sounding fine) but when I play it in vlc or winamp it's kinda quiet so I need to look into that. Anyways. It's hosted on rapidshare for now. It will be hosted permanently very soon on soundcloud which was linked by my buddy Jack Nilson from vancouver film school

zedkhovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04482381426799522201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2265557309447146811.post-58387964016022810842010-05-24T20:10:00.001-07:002010-05-24T20:11:13.752-07:00

So, When Red Dead Redemption was revealed some time ago I waited with anticipation like many other rockstar fanatics out there. When pre order bonuses came to light I was not terribly impressed (I admit it, I am biased and think pre order bonuses from specific companies are bs...) Anyways, I wasn't sold on a pre order until I saw Amazon.com offering the pre order bonus (in this case golden guns)

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Hey folks, Busy week again, the folks in earlier classes weren't lying when they said the work ramps up dramatically each term, and this is only term two haha. Ah, when it comes down to it thought and I am getting stressed out I just step back and tell myself I am making video games. That brings me to the point of my post. I heard some great advice passed around by teachers who have been in

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Course I've been busy it's a video game design course condensed into one year. No excuses. So, we started doing game audio the other day. Loved it, little bit difficult at first to wrap my head around the interface. The program is called pro-tools and I encourage anyone interested in learning the basics of audio editing to grab it and try it. As I said it may take awhile to wrap you're head

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Alright, Quick post for you guys pointing out this awesome link Indie Games package You get 5 amazing indie games and you get to name your price. Pay whatever you want, if you're a cheap bastard you can pay a penny if you want. If you are a decent person you'll throw down a few bucks for this quality material and rest easy knowing it goes to your choice of one of two charities, or to the devs or

zedkhovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04482381426799522201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2265557309447146811.post-8022932508600957782010-05-02T19:16:00.003-07:002010-05-02T19:21:42.446-07:00

Thought some folks might enjoy this. This fine fellow composed the Tristram music from Diablo with the sound of rainfall to create a great nostalgic feeling but still fresh song. Free for download. Check it out: Tempest in Tristram I've also added a link to my bestest buddies website which can also be found here Frozen Fox. He's an art student like me, but he does life drawing and character

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So, I had 4 days off from school as it's the end of the term. Since it's term one, we didn't have any work to do over the break (enjoy it while it lasts rings in my ears) Anyways, I had a small library of games I wanted to get through and one of them was the Dragon Age expansion. This expansion is basically explained by the fact that (dun dun duuun) the dark spawn are back, this time though

zedkhovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04482381426799522201noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2265557309447146811.post-12868629809272506152010-04-27T14:40:00.001-07:002010-04-27T14:41:04.624-07:00

So, I played the demo of Splinter Cell Conviction and I must say, I enjoyed it more than previous Splinter Cell games. For me, Splinter Cell has always been a bit to slow paced and for someone with A.D.D well it's downright cruel at times. I simply jump the gun to much and end up screwing up my progress by trying to get in a gun fight with the enemies or simply jumping out of the shadows at the

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So, I dunno bout you folks but there are a few things coming out soon that I have really been looking forward to coming out in the next 3 weeks or so. One of them is of course, Avatar. Now, if you happen to be one of the 8 people that didn't see Avatar in 3d in theatres, well...here's your next opportunity to get it on DVD. It's not 3d, it's not on a massive screen, but you can watch it at home

zedkhovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04482381426799522201noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2265557309447146811.post-72243826464962858972010-04-22T10:18:00.006-07:002010-04-23T09:36:33.534-07:00

Hey folks, Some of you may be aware I acquired a art degree in my downtime from the blog. I met a lot of amazing artists that basically convinced me that concept art in games is not for me. I am a planner/designer with some moderate art skills, they are artists through and through. Anyways as I said I met a lot of amazing artists and found all kinds of links to sites where these amazing artists

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Hey again folks,I got a bit of free time before I have to hand in a major final presentation. My classmates and I all had to make an analog board game which is balanced, unique and built to professional standards for a prototype. The teacher then plays all our board game with his wife and kids and marks on it in regards to presentation, playability, fun factor, uniqueness etc etc.Anyways, that's

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Hey Folks,I've been away from blogging for quite some time, I've acquired an art degree and am now at Vancouver Film School in the intensive video game design course. From this day on I'll be covering my assignments and giving some news and information in regards to my time at the school. I'm also hoping my blog will get people who may be interested in video games as a career to look into it more

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Hey folks,So, Taleworlds has been working diligently on their cult classic sequel to Mount and Blade called Mount and Blade Warband. It's essentially the original Mount and Blade with bug fixes, multi player and (slightly) higher res textures. First and foremost, I am gonna get this outta the way, it's not pretty, it's not pretty for 3 years ago, but it's passable. What it lacks in aesthetics it

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I am back,Blog posts forthcoming at random intervals, check back if you are interested in video game design or Vancouver Film School, or both

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