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Development Logs

For some projects I have done weekly logs showing what I have added and learned to a project or struggled with. I will soon have posts from my current app game project Sheep Herder, my final year Project, and my finished Procedural Content Generation Toy Town module.

Roblox Development (What I've learned Part 2)

For my second project, I wanted to focus more on level design and make a more relaxing game. I started with the basic idea of using the...

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Nov 5, 20223 min read

Roblox Development (What I've learned Part 1)

After a recommendation to check out Roblox for game development, I had a look into the various types of games people made. One style that...

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Nov 4, 20222 min read

Rhythm Game - Dark Rainbow

As part of a self made Game Jam, I had family members write down a total of 9 adjectives and 9 nouns. The result was the theme dark...

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Jan 20, 20221 min read

Room design and evaluation – Week 17

I have finished designing the room for the toy town. I used the same system as my normal map for the PCG wood texture to make a wall...

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Feb 4, 20212 min read

Cosmetic update and new tree – Week 16

I have made a large amount of visual changes, starting with different coloured materials for the toy so there is more variety in them. I...

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Jan 25, 20211 min read

Spawning, moving toys and lamps – Week 14

I now have a system for randomly spawning toys on each corner of the pavement, allowing you to set a chance they don’t spawn. They now...

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Jan 11, 20212 min read

Raycast success – Week 13

After lots of attempts to resolve my issues with the raycasting, I have found a solution. As the y position is not considered when making...

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Jan 4, 20212 min read

Block buildings and pathing issues – Week 12

I have been trying out different ways of making the buildings, specifically by using basic wooden blocks a child would use to build the...

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Dec 28, 20202 min read

Trees and textures – Week 10

I created a tree model in Blender with a shape key that allows for the foliage to be scaled, then connected code that will randomly...

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Dec 14, 20202 min read

Building placement – Week 9

I now have building placement sorted and was able to randomly distribute 2 types of house along all roads facing the correct way. (Click...

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Dec 7, 20201 min read

Town Modelling – Week 8

I have made the road and some of the building I plan to use. They currently have just coloured materials but I plan to make a wooden...

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Nov 30, 20201 min read

L Systems – Week 7

I have started work on developing a road system to place the village around. It uses an L system and can be adjusted with a rule and has...

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Nov 23, 20202 min read

Bone movement and constriction – Week 6

With my new model I was able to get ragdolling working, this time opting for the automatic ragdoll settings rather than manually adding...

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Nov 16, 20201 min read

Fixed rotations and additional armature issues – Week 4

I have written some new code that works with my model to do head rotation and it now locks on correctly in the x, y and z axis along with...

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Nov 2, 20201 min read

Toy model and bone animation – Week 3

This week I modelled a Cat Doll to make one of the residents of my toy town. I then exported it from Blender into Unity to try and get a...

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Oct 26, 20201 min read

Model textures and armatures – Week 2

This week we made a Fallguy model using Metaballs which was a new and simpler way to make more organic shapes. We then converted it to a...

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Oct 18, 20201 min read

My first models – Week 1

For my first week of PCG we did the basics of modelling. Using an image of Steve from Minecraft and Shrek from the Shrek films, we were...

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Oct 11, 20201 min read