As promised, here are some gameplay videos from the finished prototype level of Pollen.
These four videos show a complete playthough of the level.
Don’t forget you can check out our other videos on our youtube channel.
Pollen Trailer
August 7th, 2009
Just a few days to go now, and after hours of exporting issues we have a trailer video:
Even though we only recorded it a week ago, it feels like a lot has changed in the game. If you’re in Edinburgh around the 14th to the 16th of August, you can come check out Pollen and all the Dare to be Digital games.
Pollen Tutorial
July 26th, 2009
First of all, here’s our latest video:
It’s a playthrough of the opening and tutorial section of the game, intended to introduce the player to the controls as well as each type of bee and their abilities.
Things we’ve learned from creating a tutorial: Continue reading »
More Terrain (in case you aren’t sick of it yet)
April 20th, 2009
It’s a video this time though. So that’s better.
You can see the program layering the octaves of Simplex Noise here, going from large, gradual slopes to finer surface noise. Colours are now blended as well instead of just popping in at certain points, and at the end the whole terrain is smoothed. As the water and terrain are constantly in motion, normals have to be calculated each frame which is fairly processor intensive. However, since this video was captured I’ve switched over to using vertex buffer objects which has made a noticeable difference to the frame rate, and almost all the remaining changes I have to make relate to the graphics card, so hopefully the demo will remain at about 30fps on the target platform.
My YouTube Channel
March 12th, 2009
Just a quick note to let you know I’ve set up a YouTube channel. So far I’ve got videos of several of my graphics based projects up there, including PS2 work which I haven’t been able to show before, and there’s more to follow. I’ll also embed these on my portfolio pages.
Here’s a taster, one of two Playstation 2 demos: