Avaruustaistelupeli

Devlog

• Avaruustaistelupeli 0.5.2
  April 23, 2023 by Mobile Last

  Phew, here it finally is, almost a year after the previous version! 0.5.2 itself has been ready for a while, but I went through quite a hassle during the release process; hopefully everything works fi... Continue reading

  
• ATP test session 28.1.2023
  February 15, 2023 by Mobile Last#ATP, #Testing

  Test session on 28.1.2023, three somewhat experienced players (including the developer), purpose to concentrate mainly on co-op-gaming. And this is what happened. I prepared by temporarily removing al... Continue reading

  
• ATP test session 21.1.2023
  January 31, 2023 by Mobile Last#ATP, #Testing

  Long time has passed since the previous proper test session report, but now we finally managed to spend an evening with beer, pizza, blathering and some occasional ATP tournaments and coop-matches. He... Continue reading

  
• Avaruustaistelupeli 0.5.1
  June 10, 2022 by Mobile Last

  It's been over half a year since the previous version. My intention was to implement and release things more frequently bit by bit, but this bit got a lot bigger than it was supposed to. Whereas versi... Continue reading

  
• Making graphics for ATP #7: Moving parts
  April 29, 2022 by Mobile Last#ATP, #Blender, #Modelling, #Substance, #Texturing, #Unity

  All right, back again. This time we split models in parts, that we then move/rotate independently. Writing this chapter took so long that Blender is already updated to version three. There might be in... Continue reading

  
• ATP test session 11.3.2022
  March 22, 2022 by Mobile Last

  I sometimes tend to forget that from its essence, Avaruustaistelupeli is a local multiplayer party game. As a reminder, we started having testing workshops more regularly. They help find issues that a... Continue reading

  
• ATP test session 12.2.2022
  February 19, 2022 by Mobile Last#ATP, #Testing

  A few words about the ATP testing workshop on 12.2.2022. If you’re not interested in the technical details, you can skip to the fun part (game videos) at the end of the post. There were three partic... Continue reading

  
• Avaruustaistelupeli 0.5.0
  November 21, 2021 by Mobile Last

  Too much time has passed since the previous version. Looks like I, once again, underestimated the amount of work and overestimated the time I had. There are obviously tons of changes, so bug reports a... Continue reading

  
• Making graphics for ATP #6: Transparencies and emissions
  October 15, 2021 by Mobile Last#ATP, #Blender, #Modelling, #Substance, #Texturing, #Unity

  As stated previously, instead of dedicating each post for one module, I’ll combine the ones with similar techniques into one post. And as expected, this proved to be harder than I thought. The first... Continue reading

  
• ATP test session 11.9.2021
  September 20, 2021 by Mobile Last#ATP, #Testing

  For various reasons, lots of time had passed since the last ATP game night. But finally we managed to organize one in order to find strengths and weaknesses of the upcoming version. There were three p... Continue reading

  
• Making graphics for ATP #5: Connectors
  August 20, 2021 by Mobile Last#Blender, #Modelling, #Substance, #Texturing, #Unity

  The requirements Let's take a look at the second chapter , where we defined the requirement that each module "must be attachable to their neighbors from six edges". So when there are modules in adjace... Continue reading

  
• Making graphics for ATP #4: Putting things together in Unity
  July 30, 2021 by Mobile Last#Unity, #Modelling, #Texturing

  Previously in "Making graphics for ATP": we have created and exported LOD models in Blender and textured them in Substance . After the texturing process, we exported three by four sets of images that... Continue reading

  
• Making graphics for ATP #3: Creating surfaces with Substance
  July 23, 2021 by Mobile Last#Texturing, #Substance

  A note before we start: Substance went through a major update during my texturing adventure, and its user interface has changed a bit since I started. Screenshots should be quite up to date, but some... Continue reading

  
• Making graphics for ATP #2: Creating the base model geometry with Blender
  July 16, 2021 by Mobile Last

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  #Blender, #Modelling, #Texturing

  Requirements As mentioned in the previous post , all modules share the same base. So the first task is to model a core where all individual modules can be extended from. As the game is built on a (fla... Continue reading

  
• Making graphics for ATP #1: Prelude
  July 09, 2021 by Mobile Last#Unity, #Substance, #Blender, #Modelling, #Texturing

  This article series will be a tale about a coder in the land of graphics. A tale about modelling; uv-mapping; material mapping; texturing; exporting/importing models and textures between Blender, Subs... Continue reading

  
• Avaruustaistelupeli 0.4.5
  April 02, 2021 by Mobile Last

  This time I concentrated mainly for ship crafting aspect. The game is now quite feature-complete, so it is time to end the 0.4.x -cycle and move on to 0.5.x. During the next cycle, I'll focus upgradin... Continue reading

  
• Avaruustaistelupeli 0.4.4.1 (hotfix)
  February 16, 2021 by Mobile Last#hotfix

  Fixed a nasty bug that caused minimum resolution to be forced on certain situations. Now, if min resolution is detected, the native display resolution is used instead. Hopefully this works as an emerg... Continue reading
• Avaruustaistelupeli 0.4.4
  January 22, 2021 by Mobile Last

  Phew, finally ready. Things got more complicated than I expected. Together with technical difficulties and overall hassle, the second-to-last -release of 2020 ended up being the first one of 2021. Bet... Continue reading

  
• Avaruustaistelupeli 0.4.3
  October 19, 2020 by Mobile Last

  Not many visible changes this time, but lots of improvements on gameplay and common functionality. Major features Arcade physics model Two physics models are introduced: arcade and simulation. One can... Continue reading

  
• Avaruustaistelupeli 0.4.2
  September 19, 2020 by Mobile Last

  As usual, everything broke down just before the release. But here it is, at last. Major changes Two new module types: tractor and pressor beam. Old, overpowered AI has been divided into three levels i... Continue reading