Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 13, 2022

Lumencraft is a top-down shooter with base-building elements where you're a lonely little digger sent into bug infested underground caves. We knew that we needed custom modifications for destructible terrain, dynamic lightning, and support for thousands of swarm monsters. One example is the debris particles interacting with 2D terrain.

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Mnenad

APRIL 9, 2018

As I promised in this chapter I will dig deeper into the designing process around the creatures that will be walking on the procedural terrain. We rather think of an ideal or prototype bird like this one over here from a kid's science book. To not be bound to it I picked the third creature (the bug like one) randomly from the folder.

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Terrain Concepts Art Mesh 52

Radiator Blog

AUGUST 12, 2022

I liked the idea of climbing / descending a big weird tree, and building it in Quake would be a big challenge, so that's what I prototyped first. This early prototype felt weird to play, because the player could just run around the big open landscape and lead monsters on a big chase.

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