The lens #17, the lens of passion from The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses written by Jesse Schell. If you buy books through the links in this article I will get a small commission for that and no extra cost for you. The book is great and I think a must-have for […]
Author: cli
Software Developer
Cinematic Camera
I Want In the process of my game, I started to think about an advanced camera system. I wanted to define camera bounding boxes in which a certain type of camera is active. But this was not enough for me as I wanted them stacked. And I wanted to attach these camera bounding boxes as […]
Kanban + SCRUM
I did some micro blogging on twitter about Kanban and SCRUM I had a discussion about Scrum and Kanban. I prefer kanban as the problem with half finished tickets does not occur. For small teams it’s easier to manage. With daily, grooming sessions and retrospective.I wonder what #gamedevs are using? #gamedev #indiedev #Scrum #kanban — […]
Little ShowCase the First 2 Levels
A show case of All Fucked Up of the first 2 Levels
Barrel Distortion Lens
After the fisheye lens shader turned out to be too extreme for All Fucked Up I looked for other lens shaders and found barrel distortion shaders which makes a similar effect like a fisheye but less extreme. It just widens up the lens. Looks totally cool. I got the best and simplest shader for barrel […]
Fisheye Lens Shader
I always wanted to write some shaders and I always procrastinated it. But now I did it. Finally. I got a good source for a fisheye shader and I adapted it for the jMonkeyEngine which was not too hard. Fisheye.j3md is the thing which holds everything together. This is jMonkeEngine specific and may look different […]
Camera System
Finally, we started to think about the camera logic. How to move the camera relatively with the character we control in a way that the player gets the most out of it. There was not so much to find but this Gamasutra article from Itay Keren helped me a bunch. I know at least have […]
Lens #17: The Lens of the Toy
The lens #17, the lens of the toy from The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses written by Jesse Schell. If you buy books through the links in this article I will get a small commission for that. This lens is about my little character which can pick up weapons, ammo, and other […]
Risk Mitigation: Add more Details to Death Animation
This is the follow-up article about lens #16, the lens of risk mitigation from The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses written by Jesse Schell. If you buy books through the links in this article I will get a small commission for that. I tried quickly if more details for death animation would […]
Risk Mitigation: Test Primary and Secondary Weapon Switch
This is the follow-up article about lens #16, the lens of risk mitigation from The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses written by Jesse Schell. If you buy books through the links in this article I will get a small commission for that. The next idea I tried quickly to pitch was having […]