Steel Hunters

Just About There

After six months of R&D, three months of rough prototyping in blueprints, bringing together most of the Joy Machine team, and…

Steel Hunters — Post-Stack Tuning

Generally, I do all of my game work on my primary monitor (Dell 27" S2716DG) which I’ve run through a couple of color/brightness/etc. calibration tools. I have not done the same for my under-resolution — due to outputting to multiple displays from a laptop — Samsung 32"…

A Systemic Approach to Game Design: Part Three

Hopefully I did an adequate job of conveying that this series would be a very, very slow burn. It’s basically my once-a-month entry that will go through a whole lot of the details of our game, Steel Hunters, but it’s going to be a fairly long ride…

Introducing Steel Hunters

You may have noticed some re-naming and re-branding going on in these here parts. You may also have noticed that…

Yep

Sometimes you take years of graphics and lighting and shading knowledge… And apply it to a mobile home.

A destructible mobile home at that.

Graphics Development Stuff

I’ve largely been focused on shader development, material improvements, and general graphical improvements to a bunch of our prototype level assets lately. On top of that, I completely rewrote the character shader, thus making the current iteration version 3 of the character…

Some Updated Prototype Shots

No real update for the time being, just some pretty pictures.