Heya all,

I've been working on some of the Mischief Mages Lobby art over the last 2 days and will be hitting it hard over the week of holidays. Anyways I will be constantly uploading pictures of my progress so can you post feedback in the comments of this blog or write a whole new blog about suggestions you think would be cool or changes i should make to the existing pictures I've posted.

Cheers, Ryan

Sooo I'm kinda stumped atm trying to think of some cool new system to customize your mage for our current project mischief mages. So if anyone can think of anything interesting then chuck a comment onto the end of this blog to help us out. Mention any systems that you've seen that are interesting or anything you create urself, I just need some stimulation.

BTW im camping at uni all week cause my floors at home are getting sanded and polished so i dont have a computer. So im friggen bored!!!

Things to do at uni:
Play lol on uni comps! - doesn't work in library
Finish BLE assignment! - cant be motivated
Facebook! - can only entertain me for like 5min
youtube! - already used like 80% of my monthly DL limit
GDD for mischief Mages!- currently working on it but would rather be doing art for it but library comps dont have blender or photoshop

Currently this bored | 79% | |

So I have found that there is a correlation between me getting hammered and me writing stupid shit on the internet with the only exception being last night because I don't have a computer and a touch screen ipad is way beyond my ability as a drunk. To be honest I don't understand why but after spending $120 on $4 drinks and getting home at 3am I always have this urge to fire up my laptop and tell every other gamer out there how much better I am at gaming than they are or brag about how many drinks I can hold, although now that I think about it being $120 down for the sake of a crazy night might not be a good thing for me or my liver. Anywho this was just an epiphany (I couldn't spell this word even if i was 100% sober) [fixed it - Daniel.] I had this morning 3 hours after crawling into bed. Goodnights.

And yeah when I get rid of my hangover by about midday I'm going to probs do some more modelling for mischief mages. Night

Heya all,
I know its been awhile since I last blogged, but i've never really been much of a blogger anyways. Just informing everyone that our current game project "MISCHIEF MAGES" is currently underway. I've spent some time over the last couple weeks working on some of the art for mischief mages trying to get as much ready for Paul by the time hes finished doing his code monkey business so that i can keep him occupied.

THE PROGRESS

We've done a fair bit of design over the last couple weeks, just bouncing ideas off of one another and we've come up with a few ideas to make this an interesting game.

Programming wise I believe the patcher is almost 100% complete and Paul is head down working on the interaction between the server and lobby so that we can have a semi-playable game up and running shortly.

On the Art Front, we haven't done so much. I have done 90% of the art for the patcher and have also made some of the Lobby art take a squiz and tell me what you think so far.



also the first mage model has been done and current has a walking and attacking animation.

So i'm currently epicly sick, pretty much slept for two days in a row now only getting out of bed for the essentials, toilet breaks, little bits of food and drink and panadol. This has put me in a bad position, i have 3 assignments due next week, but currently only got half of one done. Hopefully i can say awake long enough to finish that assignment today.

On the plus side my laptop has been fixed and i shall be getting it back this arvo.

Sooooo we got the 48hr game making competition coming up this Friday, Saturday & Sunday. I'm quite excited about it actually. Myself, Nathan and Will went into uni today for a talk from microsoft about some of their products that we as students have access to, anyways we went a month earlier (cant believe no one picked that up) and to make the trip worthwhile we went and bought maccas, talked about ideas for 48hr comp and then saw a movie.

We discussed a few ideas, we know the game needs to focus on the three keywords we will be given on the day but its good to get the creative juices flowing anyway.

We discussed some kind of planet game, where the players compete to collect some form of currency by jumping to different worlds. The worlds would have different sizes and different themes. I thought the idea was really cool and if we designed it well around the keywords well within the scope of the competition.

We also discussed making some different styles of puzzle games, like rpg chess, combat tetris and so on. some of the ideas were pretty cool

Finally we talked about some kinda of tower defense/income wars game where u spawn units to fight ur opponents units, meanwhile u shoot down at there units aswell from a tower.

Anywho im outty
I will keep you posted about the games comp

fkn motion graphics dip shit is a fagget, gave me a fkn 4 my my assignment when it was easily one of the better ones in the grade. THE FUCKER DOESN"T KNOW WHAT THE FUCK HE DOIN, fkn asshole. He shows us his movies in class and their fkn terrible, I could fkn chuck a shit in some public toilet and it would look better then his fkn work. FUCK HIM! im not fkn going to uni the rest of the week. The mother fucker is a douche. fkn kunt

Sooo yeh spent most of the day yesterday studying and working on different assesment pieces. Got some drawing done as well as another motion graphics tut done.

This is a kinetic Typography done to an old soundtrack about atomic bombs.



Well thats it from me.

Nathan, Ying and I are starting to get further along in our motion graphics class. Today I learn't how to do the very basics of coding in Adobe After Effects allowing us to make things move in time with music.

Originally we were suppose to do sumthing really simple but i decided to take it a step further and make a sound equalizer effect.




I saw that Ying has finished her Kinetic Typography tut, I guess I needa get stuck into that as well soon.

Im outties hope you enjoy my motion graphics.

Hmmm so finished this today. Had heaps of bad luck yesterday did like 8seconds of it and it was all sweet and then when i went to get a drink my computer decided to do a restart for some updates and i hadn't saved. soo blahhhhhh had to do like half of it today.