cameraOrbiter.js finished

Finished the final required piece for the cameraOrbiter script. I now have a mover and a camera movement tool for my games that is modular and easy to implement.

If I really want to, I can go back in and add some rotation limitations later. It'd be nice, but not required.

charMover.js finished

Finished the charMover.js script. My issue in finishing this script was lacking a fresh set of eyes to spot my type ("stafe" is not the same thing as "strafe"). Just goes to show how much time can be spent trying to fix the simplest of things. I'd like to think if I had been working on this in a production environment, I could have asked one of my fellow coders to proof the brief script which would have allowed quicker turn around on this script.

Interesting Week

This last week has been quite interesting. I was told that I would be getting a raise starting on November 1st, and a significant one at that. I have also joined an Indie developer in creating a first person shooter, as well as getting told I could have a steady job doing FX in Unity for a mobile developer.

On top of all that, I also successfully finalized my company and studio's names and bought the related domain names (a .co and a .us). Once I create my web server I can finish the web design and begin working out the kinks in the routing and security that will be needed to allow access to the render farms.

I have almost completed the camera and keyboard scripts to allow the character movements I want. I still need to finalize the zoom functionality of the camera, and debug the strafe commands on the character movement scripts. Once that's done, I can move on to the artsy stuffs :)

Moving Along...

Design Document for Isle of Trepidation is coming along at a steady pace. I need to flesh out some remaining game mechanics and I can move on to visual style guides and flow charts. I got a handle on all the feature creep I was afraid was going to run rampant in the original design. I've managed to scale back the scope to something manageable by myself or a small team.

The game controller in Unity is shaping up nicely as well. I'm hoping to use the same controls for both games. There's a bit more of a learning curve than I anticipated, but that isn't scaring me off the project. It's fun learning new things :)

I'm hoping to have some concept art of the island ready to go by the end of this weekend so I can start roughing it out in 3D and then transferring it into the Unity level.

Start your Engines

Works been hectic.. had to study and get Samsung certified on a 7200/7400 Samsung phone system.. but I passed that certification with flying colors (and it was fun to learn something new)

Now I'm splitting my attention between getting my RenderFarm commercialized, 2 Game Design documents (and all that entails: art, design, scripting, coding, animation, etc..). One of the projects ties into an animation project I'm working on in designing and studying proper ways to blend animation into seamless motion doing anything and everything a player can think of to do.

That segues nicely into this bit: learning a new game engine. I've taken up learning Unity3D, for ease of use and ease of access (free rocks). The engine is remarkably powerful considering the limitations I saw a mere 5 years ago. I'm learning it quickly and easily, and am looking forward to seeing my art assets come to life in the Engine.