So I was working on a puzzle for Ionia where I wanted to draw the player’s attention to the other side of the room where a door would only be unlocked if they pressed 3 seperate buttons. I thought we could use an effective visual cue like Portal but
Holy crap, you guys! We’re still in shock. After barely a week on Steam Greenlight, Ionia was Greenlit last night. We just want to take this opportunity to thank every single one of you who voted to get this game on Steam. We’d also like to thank our
After the Unreal Engine 4 live stream where Epic showed off some videos from Koola, a UE4 developer on the official forums, I was very interested in creating a scene with that amount of visual prowess. See the original forum discussion here. Here is a video of the final product
We’re kicking off the new year with an exciting announcement: Ionia, formerly known as Blink, is on Steam Greenlight! We have also released the first public alpha gameplay trailer and a free music download. Steam Greenlight First off, we are elated to announce that Ionia, formerly known as Blink,
The theme of GGJ 2014 was “We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.”. A whole sentence for a theme felt very constraining on creativity which was a great exercise for game developers to think outside of the box. We ended up going for
If you want to start your own community forum there’s an overwhelming number of choices out there; and most of them are free. We wanted something simple and effective that made it easy to run a private community. Ultimately, we ended up choosing Vanilla Forums. It’s free, pretty
Two new faces joined the Blue Void studios team: a new programmer, Jeff, and professional QA tester, Anthony! Here's there introductions: ![Jeff] “Hi! My name’s Jeff and I’m working on the UI programming for Blink. Jessy asked me to talk a bit about my credentials. Well,
Here's some concept art of a door. A good example of how my gray matter evolves an idea.
Anyone with experience importing art assets into UDK knows the woes of dealing with lightmaps. When used correctly, they can be helpful and beautiful. But how do you get there? What are the caviats? Thankfully, Alex Galuzin over at World of Level Design has published a series of very useful
Here’s a few concept environmental art images for our redesign of the first area that the alpha consists of. Cryo control room concept Abyss bridge concept Research hallway concept Reactor control room concept Elevator at the end of the office floor Office room concept As a small team (now
After watching Indie Game: The Movie's Portland screening we met PIGSquad, Portland's gaming interest group. PIGSquad member Jeffrey Sens invited us to check out the Portland Barcamp that coming Friday. Friday March 30th we went to the Portland Barcamp to lend our voices to the crowdsourcing
Hey everyone! I hope those of you who are celebrating right now are having a wonderful holiday. I know you’re probably wondering about what sort of progress we’ve made in the past month. We’ll be updating quite a bit next week when the new year kicks off,