Cell Hand Puzzle Test

Puzzle in the upcoming demo area. You come across an iron door that's held on by three disembodied arms. They twitch in sequence when the syringes are hit. It's a timing plus combination puzzle.

Three difficulty settings are shown.

This is all temp art, I just chopped off Joe's arm and modeled up something quick. I added the meters later when I realized we needed more indication that a pattern event is happening. Plus it helps time the pushes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipj6ABCdgt8&feature=youtu.be

Cells Pulse

This shows off the pulsing wall effect. Using a simple sine function for this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shP01U9A8UE

 

 

Gonna be handing the level off to Keith to start a lighting pass. 

Tree art

So there's a section of a hallway that pulses with a heart beat, vid of that soon. Needed a bridge between the moving part and the static wall, so to cover the seam I decided a surreal looking bent tree could make a nice arch there.

Spent a few hours on it, then decided it looked like crap, I mean a literal turd. Maybe it was mud box's default specular material (need to learn how to change that) but what I was seeing required a flush. So I restarted from a box rather than a cylinder. New tree is looking much better.

Cell Changes

 

Making some massive changes to the cells area. It's larger, has an action scene, and we're going with a much darker lighting. You'll be able to hit light switches to keep the nasties at bay, and they'll be floor lighting so you'll have at least some minimal sense of location.

Engine Updates..


So the past few weeks we've been updating to the new Opengl standard, updating to a newer PhysX (3.2) and doing some other engine tweeks. Doesn't make for too many screen shots.

I'm liking the new PhysX system, though the update had some substantial code changes. But I was able to integrate some controllers that never seem to work right and dump a  lot of things I was doing by hand.

Here's just a couple of past screen shots.

 

 

Shades is a fully 3D adventure game where you play a schizophrenic patient trapped in a strange house. It uses a custom 3D engine.

And here's a nice video walkthough:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjD6ak_QCzY

Starting a blog...

Now that facebook has changed policies for business sites, I can't justify spending any advertising on them. I don't want to spend money to build and audience, then spend it again to retain it. Might was well just pay for normal banner ads at this point.

So in this blog there will be an in depth update of the project know as Shades of Sanity.