Happy Smiley Village

Devlog

• Self-Reflection
  June 18, 2020 by sarahmaywhite

  Overall, I'm happy with how the game came out. Although I wish I hadn't planned to have so many features in this game, else I would've been able to create the amount of dress assets that I wanted to c... Continue reading

  
• AO Issue
  June 18, 2020 by sarahmaywhite

  It wasn't until I built my game did I realise that the AO script I had been using actually didn't work well with my unlit textures and was blown out and blurry in the test build. Unfortunately, this m... Continue reading

  
• Substance Designer
  June 18, 2020 by sarahmaywhite

  Throughout production, I decided to create some tiling textures in Substance Designer to create variation in my assets and create a lovely unlit style that blended flat colour with basic textures. I a... Continue reading

  
• Characters
  June 18, 2020 by sarahmaywhite

  The models of the residents changed significantly from the original concepts (see Early Development post.) The models went through 3 stages of iteration. To animate these characters, I used Mixamo as... Continue reading

  
• Reworking 3D Assets
  June 18, 2020 by sarahmaywhite

  As my original models had be derived from ProBuilder, the topology wasn't amazing and I felt like they needed an extra level of detail to really hone the stylistic vision I was going for. I imported a... Continue reading

  
• Playmaker to C#
  June 18, 2020 by sarahmaywhite

  During the project, I decided that Playmaker wasn't working for me and for the NPC interaction I had in mind, coding seemed to give me more flexibility. For this reason, I decided to create a new proj... Continue reading
• Early Development
  June 18, 2020 by sarahmaywhite

  Concepts for the residents of the village. The early 3D development of the game began with me using ProBuilder in Unity to block out the town. I would then go on to export the ProBuilder models as ... Continue reading