Category Archives: Projects

You do…good, but be aware that that door does not simply give you access to a building, no sir. It is some sort of time and space manipulator, do you know why?

Because the freaking building behind has an interior area that could cover the entire town.

Yes, as work starts moving forwards I start wondering about things that look like no brainers but are not, for example, most of the time – at least on adventure/horror/survival horror games – the interior area of a building/structure DOES cover quite a bit more than the exterior would make you think. And that is a problem for me, mostly because I like to be accurate when it comes to scale, but also because on this project the interiors are not a different map/scene, the interiors are…well…inside the exteriors.

I hate to come up with post titles…HATE!!

Ok, now for something completely different.

You might have noticed that I tend to over-analyse and over plan things (please, tell me you did not notice ).

So, the game isn’t even 5% finished and I’m already planning if the game will be free, free with ads or extremely cheap but not free (haha…truth be told, I’ve been thinking about it ever since we started the project). I have yet to reach a conclusion. (yes…this was supposed to be a meaningless part of this post)

Another thing that has bothered me ever since the start is…that I fucking suck at ‘sculpting’ terrains, while I suck at lots of ‘disciplines’ needed to finish the game, this one bothers me in a very special way, because every time I try to make a terrain for the game I end up not using a single bit of logical thinking, e.g. the current terrain, the things that were supposed to be mountains  ended up looking like walls since they surround the terrain in a very…errrmmm…vertical and geometric way.

So for the fourth or fifth time I’ll remake the terrain, one day I’ll end up with a good one.

Anyway I’m back to my productive days of work on this project, which, looking at the past, will end somewhere between this week and next week, since I have a tendency to get bored of it after a couple of days and then stop for months.

So, last time I posted, I said I was working a bit on the game. As usual I started pretty well (did 2 or 3 models) and then simply stopped. That’s my typical modus operandi, full steam for one day or two and then a big stop for 2 weeks or more. I guess that’s part of why after 1 year there’s no noticeable progress on the project (to my defence we did restart the project in September 2010).

Thinking on the positive side of things, during those stops I always get some new ideas, or plan a few more details. The latest planned detail was the camera FOV, seems like Unitys default 60º is a bit too much, at least for correctly sized 3d models, so I’m testing 45º and it looks nice enough. Before someone thinks “But X game has a >80º FOV and looks fine.” two things: models were made considering a large FOV…AND most of these ‘big ass FOV’ games use the horizontal FOV and not the vertical FOV (Unity uses vertical FOV).

That’s all for now.

As I already said this project started on the first days of February, 2010. What progress do we have until now?

NONE.

At least nothing noteworthy. Why? Organization…lack of.

Although I won’t hide that for me this project is, first and foremost, a learning project. I doubt that the final result will be worth distributing, but I will do it anyway.

(more…)

…I never presented this project on this site.
While I keep posting about it and making references to vortexcruz.net and my friend Cruz, I never introduced the game.
So I’ll just copy what I have written on vortexcruz.net:

(more…)

Really, I did, instead I will just write something completely random.

So, sometime ago I wrote about how Cruz — my friend who’s working on this game with me — said he was going to make some sketches and other stuff for the project, so I shouldn’t cancel it.
I also made a reference that his will to work was just temporary.

(more…)

After a brief period of “Fuck it, the project is cancelled!”, this project is back on track again.

One very simple reason…Cruz — the friend working on the game with me — started showing some will to work. He gave ideas, helped on some decisions, promised sketches, etc. . But there’s still a big problem, I fully know his will to work doesn’t last more than a few days, which in some time will bring another “Fuck it, the project is cancelled!” period, rinse , repeat.

But at least we made some decisions, for example, I’m in charge of designing the map, at the very start of the game there will be a mini boss although it’s only ‘mini boss’ because at the time you will not have a weapon, so you have to use the awesome power of puzzles. Obviously, I will not write what the solution to that boss puzzle will be. More…The PC — Player character — will be an “Average  Joe” we might even give him a beer belly and who knows a moustache –and then we’ll make him say “It’sa me…Mario!!” — ok, reasonably joking about the moustache.

Ok, enough off-topic. Will post again when more stuff is done on the project, or when I feel like.

While this project is on the verge of being cancelled, I do plan to keep working on it and who knows maybe even finish it.

I guess the “Cancelled” part of it only refers to it being a team project – me and a friend – in which the friend has not wrote a single line of text or made a single concept sketch since we started working on this game.

So even if the “team project” codenamed “Colina Silenciosa” is cancelled, it will, sooner or later be reborn, probably under another name, even if I am the only person working on it.

And that’s how much I want to make a shitty Survival Horror game…