On “Grey”, we want to use normal maps to add some detail to the basic geometry of the models; this is pretty common in modern games. The way we do it at the moment is to create a texture that describes the bumps in the surface (white is for “high”, black is for “low”): […]
Grey is a game that has a lot of Artificial Intelligence (AI), since the player is mostly on the role of a “general”-type of figure, commanding his minions. One of the most important tasks in AI in this game will be the path-finding. Path-finding is the game subsystem responsible for finding out what’s the path […]
A big slice of our development “budget” has gone into SurgeED, something I’ve been working on and off for the last two years… SurgeED is a world editor with some “workspace” capabilities. The idea is that we don’t just author maps in it, we aggregate all our development tools and utilities into this unified system, […]
Since we’ve decided to go forward with this project, we’ve been working like madmen, that’s what! We’re currently in a design stage. This means that we’re currently working on game design and concept art, besides getting the technology on the point that we can use it to make this game. There’s several different vectors in […]