The last week of production is upon us, this weekend Gotland Game Conferance finally happens and the game will be displayed on the show floor.

Before I talk about this week I must mention what I forgot to write about last week.

The air animations for Hoppy and Sticky has been changed so that they more closely resemble slimes in their movement.

I had to work around the fact that I did not rig them to actually be able to do this, it was an afterthough from the Lead Designer. But I think it worked out pretty good.

This week I had to redo some of the animator because the work has disappeared for some reason when I pushed it up to the team using SourceTree. But it went very fast this time.

Then I made some graphics for menus and such. Here are some examples.

Also the trailer was finished this week thou I did not work on it

Please give it a look

Next off to Gotland Game Conferance!

Time to get my work to actually work in the game engine. I have never used the animator of Unity earlier so I had to spend some time learning how it works. I also had to ask for code specific for what I am doing, parameters that I can use to control the animations within the animation controller.

I started with Hoppy to lay down the basic movement animations idle, walk, jump and double jump since all characters share these states. After working out some bugs I find the result more satisfying than I initially thought.

Next up is Sticky

And to finish things off Glidey. I found that the work went more smoothly the more I did it so fixing Glidey took half the time of Sticky and Sticky took half the time that Hoppy took.

After tweaking and testing I think I have managed to make it work without it feeling akward or weird.

But I have one bug that I can not work out. During specific conditions the animations get stuck in the “up in the air” animation. The character never clamps to the ground and for some reason the Y-axis ends up at -30 and thus the animation state never changes to “land”. I will leave this in because it does not happen to often and will not impact the experience, I hope…

So this week the team decided on the final name for the game: Adventures In Space And Slime. This is the logo made by your truly.

Began with a rough sketch, blocking out ideas.

Updated version that is a bit more fleshed out. We wanted slime in the logo.

After recieving feedback this is what I ended up with.

Welcome Adventures In Space And Slime!