Work on a New Project: Kibble Quest

Here is the project I've been working on this summer. It is a 2D top-down side shooter. More information can be found here. Things left to do: Write story material Art for 10 location backgrounds Art for defensive wall Art for game map A few more enemies Optimizing the spawner script for more enjoyable gameplay For now, here are some images: ...

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Hand Painted Low Poly Rocks

Today, I tried my hand at modeling and texturing some hand painted rocks. I used this video as an overview to model. Here is the download if you would like to use these rocks in your own project. The file contains a compressed file of 3 different rock models and one texture to be used with all of th...

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Improved Title Screen

After a while of not working on the game for awhile, I started up again yesterday with a new start menu. Also, I've upgraded the project to Unity 4.0.0, looking forward to seeing all the new features! ...

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New Title Screens

The past few days, I spent a lot of work redoing and re-redoing the title screens. I admit, I don't have any artistic talent but I have spent a fair amount of time toying around with Photoshop and I've picked up on a few tips and tricks to make something decent looking. First I started out with a simple orange background with transparent gray and a font change. Old title screen, a little borring. New title screen with moving background. I decided to...

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How I Doubled the FPS of my Game

The past few days, I've been working on getting the frame rate of my game up since when there are lots of zombies spawned, the frames per second dropped so low on mobile devices that it was unplayable. So I set out to create some dramatic changes in my game. First thing, I created a backup of my game in case anything went wrong. Then I did what I should have done from the very start but I did not because I was fairly unexperienced in how to edit...

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Hand Painting Textures

Today I picked up my first drawing tablet, it's the Wacom Bamboo Create. I got it for $175 but if you should around you can get it for even less. Using a drawing tablet is really weird at first but after an hour of playing around with it and tweaking the settings, I  think I've got it down. Here is my very first texture I created following this tutorial: Not too shabby, if I do say so myself -- at least for a first time using a drawing...

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New Dramatic Trailer

Created a new dramatic trailer for the game yesterday, now live on YouTube...

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