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Game Design Musings Episode 001: 6 Rules of Horror!

20NovemberseveralfightersGame Design & DevelopmentBrainstorm, Game Design, Grover Cleveland, Horror, Martian Steam Train, Rules

So relatively recently i watched Alien for the first time and although i didn’t find it remotely scary, years of watching comedy sci-fi appears to have completely desensitised me to the xenomorph, not that i will be giving quiche a chance any time soon, it did get me thinking about how horror stories work.

Oh no, Not again!

If you’ve ever watched Alien you may have noticed that the titular Alien doesn’t actually appear in full till the very end of the movie, and even then that’s after it’s ceased being a problem for Ripley and the radioactive particle clouds that were her peers and thus doesn’t need to create tension anymore. Not showing the monster benefits the movie because the unknown scares people.

Scary!

This reminded me of Chuck Jones’ rules of RoadRunner, which if you haven’t heard of them are a set of 9 guidelines he used to write satisfying to watch road runner cartoons, so I thought I’d try and do the same for horror movies. First some definitions:

Assignment 1 Log – Intro to 3D Animation [Part 2]

22OctoberseveralfightersUncategorizedAnimation, modelling, obligitory waste of time

Last Time on Assignment 1 Log: i detailed the majority of the modelling process and ran into an issue with file saving. And now the conclusion. After going over to the university’s labs i was relieved to find that saving worked. the lighting i had set up in Arnold didn’t work so well in MentalRay:

Assignment 1 Log – Intro to 3D Animation [Part 1]

21OctoberseveralfightersUncategorizedAnimation, modelling, obligitory waste of time

Working on the 1st assignment of my Introduction to 3D Animation course and i’m required to write a blog post detailing “key stages in production”, which is usually a problem for me because i tend to neglect screenshotting things as i make them, mainly because there’s no practical reason for doing that and it eats

Maya Test Animation: Folding RoboBird

8OctoberseveralfightersUncategorized

Here’s a test animation i made with the RoboBird Model i made yesterday.

RoboBird Pterodon Renders (Maya)

7Octoberseveralfightersguff and miscellaneousMaya, Render

Here’s some more Maya Renders, this time of a design i mashed together from Laserbeak and an older design of mine that combined Clank and the Megablox Minifig Dino Thunder Petrazord. included: 1 render with a cream-ish background added in in gimp and 1 render with a background made out out geometry.

GIR renders

30Septemberseveralfightersguff and miscellaneous

Here are some neat renders of GIR from Invader Zim that i made in maya, untextured but i rather liked how well the proportions and colours came out, and pretty neat considering i’ve only known how to maya for about a day. The full body shot is touched up in gimp for a glowing eyes

Letters from Pegasus, a Stargate Atlantis text review: The Ark

22Augustseveralfightersreviewsbalthazar edison sadly hes dead again, Quick Reviews, SGA

It seems after my laziness induced hiatus. Netflix doesn’t have anything stargate but ark of truth (and not even this ark) so i’m paying real matt money to watch this, which in the past would have meant i’d have to buy a box set, but now thanks to Amazon Video i can just buy specific

RCG 1.2: gameplay edition

28JuneseveralfightersMatt's softwareapplications, gameplay!, Random Generator, spelljammer

An Expansion of my Random Cosmos Generator with Gameplay Aspects created for my ICT BTEC work: RCG1.2 is a simplistic (and still in development) space trading/exploration game that doubles as a map tool -Travel the Spelljammer inspired cosmos as a trading vessel, or disable gameplay features to explore the galaxy in spectator mode. -Choose from

Spelljammer Cosmos Generator 1.1

2AprilseveralfightersMatt's softwareapplications, i guess this is a game the noctis games are essentially just exploring a generated map then again they have walking around, Random Generator, spelljammer

day 1 update to my procedural map generator based around the spelljammer D&D setting in which solar systems are contained within vast crystal spheres and wizards travel between them on medieval fantasy spaceships. CONTENT WARNING: hilarious, random usage of naughty words possible and likely. Acessable Here (embed isn’t working for me) Controls: -on the control

Spelljammer Cosmos Generator 1.0

A procedural map generator based around the spelljammer D&D setting in which solar systems are contained within vast crystal spheres and wizards travel between them on medieval fantasy spaceships. Acessable Here (embed isn’t working for me) Controls: WASD or arrow keys to navigate map. if you want more precise movements switch to zoomed mode and

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