I’ve been spending the first couple of production weeks resolving the outstanding design issues.

The immediate concern was brought up by one of our staff mentor, Justin Meagher. Justin was concerned that our design document did not adequately address what became known as the ‘left behind scenario.’

The ‘left behind scenario’ was a product of a flaw in our resource based movement system.

My role in the group was to analyze the problem, develop and evaluate multiple solutions and the present my findings and suggested solution to the group at the end of the week.

The process of working through this problem revealed that the ‘left behind scenario’ was merely a symptom of a much larger issue. Over the course of pre-production our game had drifted so far from our initial core it had fundamentally changed.

Thankfully we’ve been documenting our process so I can present exactly how our game narrowly avoided becoming a single...

Ghost concept art





Rough animation




This is the idle and walk animation for the ghost werewolf. I looked at sprite animations and merged a few ideas together.

Here is a little guy I whipped up for a PSP game (Sudoku Showdown) I'm working on.




- Billy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KEEXyRL0qE


Placebo - Running up that Hill


The song is featured in the trailer for Daybreakers


- Billy

Here are the final concepts for my teams final project at VFS - High Moon Express


Our Heros:


The Priest





"Doc"





Outlaw





The Can can girl





Enemies:


Fast Werewolf





Ghost





The...

This is the rip-o-matic I made for help our team pitch our game to the audio department - enjoy

http://vimeo.com/5239759

Here is the final concept art for the Priest and "Doc"(minus the mustache and goatee)

"Doc"








The Priest









- Billy

Collection of concept art I did last week for my final project -

You control four cowboys(Priest, Can Can Girl, Outlaw, The Dandy), fighting through hoards of werewolves, trying to reach the last train out of town..















- Billy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQOT1f2stmY

Matt and Kim - Daylight

I can't figure out how upload a photo album. So click the link for a picture dump of my teams brain storming ideas for our final game.

After weeks of brainstorming we have come up with a real time strategy where you play as for gunslingers, fighting hoards of werewolves as you escape on the last train out of town.

- Billy

PS - My flash game is close to be done..I'll post a link to where to play it.

This is the main character for the game “Way Up!”. Two players race to be the first to player to the moon. Player’s must dodge crows, crop dusters and Russian satellites.

The animations seen are in order of - Idle, jump, run, Grab + hold balloon, holding on balloon and throwing thumbtack

The game will be done in two weeks…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FoPZ0PZ32w



Pharoahe Monch - Desire (Ft. Showtime)


This would be my personal theme for every time I walk through a door. I would have to walk in slow-mo for the song really to work.

- Billy

Watch Eastbound and Down..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgDaVLCaBzQ






-Billy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIEOZCcaXzE

Even a white nerdy Jew has to cut a rug when this song is played..

-Billy

I Am Legend (The book not the film)
The movie and its B.S. ending did this book a great disservice.

Before the Devil Knows Your Dead


I watched this movie knowing absolutely nothing about it and so should you. The film stars Philip Seymour Hoffman (he's kind of a really good actor). Its a Crime,...

As we speak, I'm working on my detailed design doc for a game called -Hunt or be Hunted. My problem good people, is that I have a crappy "X-statement" and I need ideas for a new one.

An X statement is pretty much a game hook or tagline. My instructor was a 15 year vet at EA. EA coined the term "X-statement" so that is why we use it in school.

Ok so here is the game's High Concept -


Play as either an escaped convict or the bounty hunter sent to catch him. As the convict, use speed and camouflage to outsmart your opponent as you search for an escape route. Bounty Hunters have night vision and superior tracking senses to find their target. Each must outsmart their opponent all the while enduring the harsh terrain of Alaska.


Think of the game as "Cat n Mouse" with the mouse being agile...

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Gah!
I have more then enough homework in school, let alone trying to juggle my daily speech maintenance. Dumb ass me decided it would be a good idea to record my game pitches to make things "easier" in school.

Oh what a mistake! Why can't I just hide behind my stutter and get a pity grade from my teachers? So with recording all my game doc pitches I have just doubled my nightly work. See unlike you normies, for every min of speech, twenty five seconds of that is filled with stutter-filled awkwardness. So now, a fifteen minute speech turns into a TWO HOUR recording, with another hour getting the beats down to match my powerpoint. The best part is that it all that was lost last night when audacity decided I should do four hours of work instead, thus, deciding to corrupt my first recording. I'm in an industry all about technology and oh boy do I HATE technology...

Fallout 3
Fallout and Fallout 2 consumed my middle school and high school days respectfully. I can't give a fair and balanced review, because of my blinding love for the series. If you dug Mad Maxx, Oblivion or any story about "wandering", give Fallout 3 a try.

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
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