Category: - Sarah Greve Game Environment Art Portfolio

Star Blazers Nearing Completion

3/20/2013

Its been a long week and i didnt get to finish my game like I intended to. I still made a lot of progress though. I finished off the dialogue avatars and game them some shadows. I also made a character sprite for the captain even though he has no powers.

I was starting to try and make the intro and ending screens. Health prevented me from actually getting them in this week, but I have models and animations for a number of planets and planet bombs as well as the yamato ship itself.

I was having trouble getting them into game because they had to many frames. Im sure I can work around this and make the game not lag but I just couldnt get it working in time for this week.

Play-tester Failed to Break It!!!!

3/11/2013

Ok, so the main part of the game is completed, minus a little art replacement. AND the latest play-tester failed to break anything YAAAAYYYY

left to do:
intro and ending animations
a few avatar replacements
fix the menu screens

Assuming nothing catastrophic happens, it should be finished on time by text week

also, the latest video lagged when recorded, game works fine to my knowledge

New Starblazers Test Video

3/3/2013

New video test for Starblazers!!!

Till a lot of glitches to fix, number displays that don't always pop up, animations that need to be added, avatars that need to be changed

BUT

Ive been adding battle animations because that was the next thing people were complaining about. Ive also added quite a few sound effects.

Starblazers Update

2/27/2013

Well, i cant get construct 2 installed at school today so i wont post any video of the game but i have finished:

The console sprite going all the way around the bridge
simple flashing lights on the consoles
gave Nova and Sandor consoles for crew moral and shield
tweeked some more of the sound effects
started trying to get battle effects to work (which they don't yet)

The next things i need to work on are:

Model fighters
Animate fighter attack
Fix battle effects and sounds
Draw and finish more avatars for dialogue (Venture, Sandor, Wildstar, 2 new Novas)
Ending animation
Intro page and movie
Fix menu art?

Beta Progress Video - Starblazers

2/19/2013

Lots more to do but its getting hard to post static images instead of video to show the progress im making, so here is a video.

Again lots of assets and art left to add but at least its starting to feel like a game instead of a grouping of menus and squares.

Below are the closeups of some of the avatars im using for the dialogue.

I hate how nova turned out, head to big and shes not tempting enough, her avatar will be changed. Next I want to finally get the consoles in.

Starblazers returns to Blog

2/15/2013

Ive started in on the art. started modeling out the ship with 3ds max and then adding thicker lines to the rendered images in photoshop to give it a cartoony look to match my chibi art style.

Thick lineart should connect all the components stylistically

Im starting to phase out the reference image and starting to do the animations. Now they cheer when they get troop moral or health. All the healthbars are active now as well. The basics of the battle system and attacks all work. Its hard to tell they are working sometimes since i dont have the art to illustrate things happening in variables. There is still a ton of art and animation to do.

In order to expand some of the cramped features i made a descending view screen for any dialogue. I decided to leave the menus as individual elements because there was so little info on them, it didnt look visually pleasing to have two buttons floating around the huge screen.

I also got the programming working so that the game takes turns between the enemy and the player.

At this point i THINK all the programming is done at least in the basic form. So unless i find something broken or come up with something to add, it should be just adding lots of content: animations, background, character images for dialogue, and sounds.

CharacterConcepts for Star blazers RPG

2/5/2013

Started some character art for the Star Blazers RPG. Most of the time they will be scene from the back at their consoles. This should actually make things easier to animate in game. Also the heads might be able to double as the little in game dialogue images but im not ready to start putting that in yet.

Not sure how i feel about the flat color, i might have to add some shading on them.

Characters:
Wildstar, Nova, Dr. Sane, Venture, Sandor

Menu Set Up Fixed

1/31/2013

I also set up three HealthBars. One for the ship's crew, one for the ship's shield, and one for the enemy's health. All are running already and are set up to a health/shield variable on the sprite.

Next i just need to figure out how to get a really simple AI that chooses the enemy's attacks and some code that slows things down. (right now actions occur instantly one after the other)

Ok, new screenshot. I completely revamped how i was setting up the menus Now its based off of set visibility instead of pulling from arrays. This feels more like the long hand way of programing out menus because each character needed its own independent menu scripts but i guess its better in the long run because im not to familiar with construct yet.

At the moment each of the four characters i have in game pop up with a menu with their battle moves and if you select one, it will close the window. There is also a max number of characters that select will let you use and then it shuts down (intentionally programed this to transition to the enemy's turn which ill be adding next)

Starsnott Updates

1/30/2013

my group liked the crystals i made for them so i made some more that were easier to place or to utilize as very large singular assets. I also finished off the textures for the slug and made emissive masks for both him and Snotty

Finally i redid the parallax i made before to have specular masks and normals so that the parallax can match the new rock textures we have.

More Starsnot Assets

1/28/2013

I have been tweaking lots of things in Starsnott lately, so i haven't really been posting NEW things, more just slight modifications to make things fit together better

I used the same model and rig we had for Snotty (yes as we have no official name i have elected to refer to him as Snotty) and edited his textures. As we made new characters like the frog people were wanting everything to be more and more cute. SO, i edited his eye to be super big. I edited the mesh a little to make this work too, but i don't think it will break the rig we already have.

Our level designers also asked for just more assets of things you might find in caves that we could use for either decoration or as intractable objects, so i made them a few crystal clusters. I completely unwrapped them but I'm thinking a procedural transparent texture will do better then a diffuse.