SpaceVenture Rewards

Category: Team Diary Entries

  • This corridor has Ace seeing red

    Here’s another corridor section within one of the ships Ace explores in SpaceVenture.The scene details have not been added yet but it’s up and running. Progress… Wahhoo! 🙂 -Mark

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  • Did someone call for a Life Support System technician?

    Here’s a work-in-progress for one the many background scenes in the game.

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  • What the heck’s going on here?

    Hey all! Sorry for the update dry spell. here’s a teaser glimpse of a big set piece that has already evolved quite a bit since this initial concept sketch. Still, I’ve blurred out the details so we don’t ruin the puzzles for you. More stuff to come. Cheers! -Mark

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  • Scene Scale Test

    No, Ace doesn’t get cloned in SpaceVenture. This was a test to establish the scale for a corridor scene that occurs early in the game.

  • Cluck’s Free-Range of Expression

    While working on the 3D model for Cluck Y’Egger, artist Brent Forrest explores the range of expression hoped for with the facial rigging of the model.

  • Sexy 3D modeling in an equally sexy 2D world!

    So for those that missed it, we announced that we’ve been working with Unity as the official engine for SpaceVenture. This was a bit of a gamble in the beginning because we wanted to have Linux support, yet Unity 3 doesn’t support it. We knew that Unity 4 was supposed to have Linux support, so it wasn’t a huge gamble, but luckily, everything paid off! Unity 4 came out a few days ago and seems to be functioning for us great! Our senior programmer Tyler has nothing but good things to say about Unity 4 so far.

    We aren’t quite ready to show demo scenes just yet, but  I think you guys are gonna love what we’ve got cooking up! Mark as always has really out done himself with working out solutions to art related problems that could really cause some issues in the direction we’re taking! In the earlier stages of making 3D work right in a 2D adventure game seemed a bit of a reach, but break through after break through has changed my originally nervous mind on this. Seems Unity really does a much better job than a lot of people realize in dealing with 2D stuff in conjunction with 3D. A lot of what has been put into the framework for SpaceVenture will also be easily re-used in future games, which will save time and money.  The framework should also make things easy to improve upon as well!

    Another thing that is meshing well in all this is the story line that Mark and Scott have put together. Without spoilers, let me just say that you’ll feel right at home with all the crazy space slang and ridiculous humor that only the Two Guys from Andromeda could bring to the table!

    Chris Pope
    http://facebook.com/thechrispope
    http://twitter.com/thechrispope

    PS- I’ve had a blast chatting back and forth with a lot of you on Twitter and Facebook! If you haven’t already, shoot me a follow on Twitter and/or a friend request on Facebook! 🙂

    Picture is from the filming of Professor Shyguys “Guilded Love” video

     

     

  • WHO WANTS ONE?

    Exclusive Rooter Cut-n-Fold prototype in the making.

  • Cluck Y’egger Comin’ Atcha in Spellbinding 3D!

    We are very, very privileged and thrilled to have such top 3D artist talent lending their skills to this game. Their amazing work really inspires us further to make Spaceventure the best damn adventure game out there. Brent Forrest is the guy who’s breathing life into our Cluck Yegger character, currently. Brent has taken the original concept and evolved it into this spectacular character design. I, for one, can’t wait for Cluck to take to the skies in Spaceventure.

    Check out Brent’s impressive body of work on his website: http://bfxinc.com/

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  • IT’S ALIVE!

    Here’s a look at some of the fine modeling and animation work of Mr. Michael Penny, one of the talented 3D artists who have teamed-up with us for Spaceventure.

    Mike really nailed Rooter’s personality and we’re very excited about how this little guy has come together.

    Scott and I consider ourselves extremely fortunate to have such awesomely gifted fans eager to lend their talents to this project.

    Be sure to check out Mike’s amazing commercial work on his website: www.nextheory.com.

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  • GMX WAS A BLAST!

    I forgot to post this earlier. Sorry gang!

    We had a fantastic time at our first Con, the Geek Media Expo in Nashville TN. Scott and I met so many awesome folks and it was just a wonderfully weird, surreal environment with some truly impressive costumes. I actually felt very out of place without my TGA regalia. For shame! Maybe next time though! GMX is apparently growing by leaps and bounds in popularity every year and we’re hoping they invite us back.

    Mr. PCJ made the trip up and it was great to get to meet him in person. Thanks to PCJ for moderating the Google hangout with the rest of our super fans (you all know who you are. 😉

    Also along for the joy ride was our special guest and newest member of the development team, Mr.Tyler Drinkard. You’ll be hearing more about Tyler and his mad programming foo very soon.

    Later,

    -Mark