Severalfighters

Writings

A collection of all my articles and stories (coming soon)

Projects

A page for my games and simulation projects. (coming soon)

Portfolios

See some of my work

Chapter 1-1

1Aprilseveralfighters10 CommentsAutumn On MarsMars, Mika, Rover, Sci-fi, Trip

Autumn on Mars A science fiction novelette by Matthew Crane. A Modern Odyssey, Chapter 1: Out Into The Wilds It was a quiet morning, but with what we were about to do, things would be far from dull. I glanced across the cold steel hangar and no one was there, the camera was idling… everything

Something’s coming…

29MarchseveralfightersAutumn On Mars

Prepare your space butts! This thing, Autumn On Mars, a science fiction novellette, will be launching on here next week. I’m planning on releasing new chapters on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays so stay tuned.

Before Dawn: A Proof of Concept Demo

20Augustseveralfighters3 CommentsMatt's softwareBefore Dawn, Dawn, Planet Generator, Programming, Unity3D

It’s My Birthday! (Yay) Also I’ve been working on a planet generator in Unity, as I am wont to do, because of something I want to make for my final year project in University this year. Here it is: At the moment all it makes are different variations on the same grey planet, and sometimes

Captain Antelope and the Keratin Invasion

15MayseveralfightersUncategorizedCaptain Antelope, Game, Game Design, portfolio, University

For one of my Modules this semester i had to produce a 3d game in Unity, and it ended up turning out pretty good. It’s a 3rd person space sim where you have to complete various missions: Delivery, Mining, Fighting space whales, etc. to earn credits to buy upgrades to install on your ship. Oddly

DLC Quest Game Appreciation Report Supplemental Material

12DecemberseveralfightersGame Design & DevelopmentDLC Quest, University

My research notes (read: list of things to think about and what i thought about them, train of thought) and a more rigid scientific spreadsheet of my data. This page is just a wrapper so that i can harvard reference both of my research docs into my report in one go in case anyone wants

Monogame Demo: Bobcube

21OctoberseveralfightersBobScene Engine, Matt's software

Good news everyone, I’ve made yet another demo in Monogame. This time I’ve been working on adding a polygon renderer to my Monogame “Engine”, so here’s some Cubes in various rotations. I’m still a ways off being able to make a proper 3D game, specifically I absolutely need Collision, but progress is progress so here’s

Monogame Demo: Monoparticles

13OctoberseveralfightersBobScene Engine, Matt's software

A little physics sim i made in Monogame, probably horribly wrong but hey it’s the first real progress i’ve made in the field. May only work on 64 bit windows 10, i dunno, i haven’t tested it on anything else. https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3bAkbqjp8mGbW5zVFNlNW4zWUE Next: BobCube programmable mesh renderer

3D Charcter Animation 6: Self Evaluation

28Aprilseveralfighters3D Character Animation

So here it is. Given the sheer amount of keyframes that went into that 316 frame clip i kinda misjudged how long 10 seconds actually was. Probably why i misunderestimated how quick i had the eyes darting around. Looks kinda stilted and floaty, like Mid-90s mainframe animation, which i guess makes sense: they were pioneering

3D Charcter Animation 5: Hours before editing

28Aprilseveralfighters3D Character Animation

Animation done. Not shown: the camera moving around. At the moment i’m editing the video. It’s set up to fade in. from black for a few frames.

3D Charcter Animation 4: Last minute tweaks

27Aprilseveralfighters3D Character Animation

Since last report i’ve: Modelled some (admittedy faulty but servicable) mouth geometry. Removed the torso for polys so i could add teeth. Split skin geometry into Hand, Legs and Head sections so weights could be mirrored. added teeth. Essentially completed Sweep’s character model. Animated the first 316 frames (10 seconds) of the “Do the Mario”