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Asylum Dev Diary 72
March 24, 2019The first confrontation with the police is supposed to result in the player escaping into the basement. Because of this the police need to be persuaded to stop their pursuit. So, I revised the sequence so that once the player is down in the basement other things take place to remove the heat from Jack… [Read More]
Asylum Dev Diary 71 – Mechanical Pipes III
March 10, 2019This week I completed the work on the mechanical pipes. I’ve vastly improved the shadows and they are looking great – really selling the idea that they are above the player. As I previously mentioned the pipes are critically important in the basement; they are used to guide the player in the complex maze like… [Read More]
Asylum Dev Diary 70 – Mechanical Pipes II
March 3, 2019Sometimes it’s the simplest of things that cause so much trouble. In a top down game everything is pretty much flat in the focal depth department. All objects and walls are in focus. The trouble is when you want to have something that is clearly overhead – if that too is in sharp focus it… [Read More]
Asylum Dev Diary 69 – Mechanical Pipes
February 24, 2019After a few false starts this year I’ve managed to get a decent amount of progress this week on the basement area. The one important aspect of the basement is the mechanical pipes that criss-cross around the level. These aren’t just for show, they are important indicators for the player to follow and deal with.… [Read More]
Asylum Dev Diary 68
February 10, 2019After last weeks complete outage of internet access it’s nice to get back into development. After the last session where I moved the screen fading routines from a dedicated object to the camera object (which makes more sense) I got thinking. Perhaps some of the other GUI elements should also be moved into the camera… [Read More]
Asylum Dev Diary 67
January 27, 2019Progress at last. After 2 weeks of trying to work out the cause of a bug that results in a black screen when the player returns from the Flashback sequence I have final found the cause and corrected it. After a lot of debugging I discovered that the Bloom Shader that is used to give… [Read More]
Asylum Dev Diary 66
January 20, 2019Well, 2019 isn’t going well. Slightly shorter development sessions this weekend due to other commitments. I’ve had another investigation into the black screen issue I’m experiencing that only occurs when the player moves from the flashback scene back to the first floor. I am still unable to isolate the issue. It’s very frustrating because even… [Read More]
Asylum Dev Diary 65 – New Year New Bugs
January 13, 2019Just when you think you can continue where you left off last year with development new bugs for previous chunks sneak in. While I was improving the layout of the UI elements I decided to test from start to finish (where I am now anyway) to make sure all the message text appeared within the… [Read More]
Asylum Dev Diary 64 (2019)
January 6, 2019A new year, a new development cycle for Asylum. To ease myself back into the development of the game I focused on a tidying up a few things and making some UI improvements. I did some research as to how other games display dialogue and although I liked my initial design of having the tint… [Read More]
Asylum Dev Diary 63
December 9, 2018Last update of the year as the Christmas season gets into full swing. Looking back over the course of the last year I’m very pleased with the immense progress I’ve made on Asylum and hope to see it continue throughout the new year. There’s still a massive amount to do but I’m confident that everything… [Read More]