Developer News
09 July 2009 -
Menu Complete
Well, I have had some good time to work on the game these last few days thanks to the school holidays. I am pleased to announce that I have now created a splash screen and loading screen, and the entire menu is now fully functional. Everything has been optimized too, so images and such load much much faster. All thats really left on this side is the splash audio. Otherwise, I am now on to the actual modeling of the game. Yay! Stay tuned...
22 June 2009 -
Splash Screen
It has been a while since my last post here. I have been extremely busy these last 2 months. Haven't had much of a chance to work on Project Asylum. Thankfully, my holiday is 2 days away, so you can expect some significant work to be done. Couldn't sleep tonight so spent a few hours playing with Blender. I have created the splash screen logo. Its still got to be textured, but that should be done within the next 2 days. Then its just animating it, rendering it, and loading it into the game. After that, its on to the modeling of the asylum structure as well as the items, weapons and enemies etc. Will hopefully have some new screenshots for you soon.
25 April 2009 -
Player Movement Functional
As promised, I completed the player movement. The player can now walk, run and look. I have made
a few smaller updates including the loading of the background music to be played ingame as well.
Now that they player has control, its time to start modeling the map, weapons, and characters.
This, I will not lie, is going to take some time. But as soon as I have a working map, posting
a screenshot here will be the first thing I do.
Keep your eyes open...This is going too get interesting :)
23 April 2009 -
Camera Look Completed
Today I managed to get the game camera look functioning correctly. Was a little of an issue working with vectors in 3d. Now its on to movement of the camera. I anticipate this should be done by no later than the end of this coming weekend. Will keep you posted.
20 April 2009 -
Main Game Started
Firstly, I would like to welcome a new member to the team. Pontux is his name, and he too, has had experience using irrlicht
before. He has helped out a lot with the development of the Menu Screen. Thanks Pontux.
Now to business. I have started development on the main game. I have decided against using the FPSCamera supplied by irrlicht
because I intend to play nifty tricks with it during the game, and therefore it is much easier to alter the behavior
of a custom camera than to hack up the irrlicht source for the FPSCamera. The creation of the gameManager and gameEventReceiver
are well underway, and, with the help of the irrlicht community, I hope to have the camera working 100% later this week.
Once that is sorted, physics will be tackled.
Unfortunately, I have been extremely busy with other work commitments, however, they are coming to an end, so I anticipate
regular updates to be made within a decent time frame. Keep your eye out for more information and screen shots to follow in
the next few weeks.
07 March 2009 -
Menu Progressing Smoothly
I have started programming the menu screen for the game. I am busy filling in the options that are
available to the player. Thank you to Link- for the fantastic background image and sound track.
At the moment, I have an animation for button rollovers, as well as a sound track that plays on loop
and a sound for the buttons, when clicked. Once the buttons and comboboxs are complete in the options
pages, I will implement the saveing and loading of settings. Please dont forget to check out the
screenshots page here that has the newly uploaded screenshot of the current Main Menu screen.
17 Feb 2009 -
Development Has Started
I have some good news. Last night I started working on Project Asylum. Although nothing
much has been done, I did manage to get my IDE set up correctly and can now compile and
run projects. My c++ is a bit rusty so its a steep learning curve, however, it will progress
from now on.
I have also added a new page to the website. That is the "Project Progress" page to keep you
all up to date with any developments and additions of new sections of code and models. At the moment,
I am busy setting up the game state manager. Will post an update here when it is done.
30 Jan 2009 -
Planning Progressing Smoothly
Planning is progressing at a smooth rate. So far the basic gameplay mechanics as well
as all the technical information planning is almost complete. Currently, team members
are configuring their IDE's and installing the respective softwares in order to create
this game.
I would also like to welcome chosen320 to the team.
22 Jan 2009 -
Launch of Project Asylum Website
We have just launched the website for Project Asylum. Currently, the project is in
early planning stages with concept art being drawn up, as well as ideas being
brainstormed. The IDE environments are busy being configured, as well as good solid
filestructures being implemented.
Most of us are busy with many other activities such as study and work, however we plan
to put in as much work as we can into this project as is possible. Check back here for
further updates and changes.