Planet Null

Devlog

• Trailer For Planet Null
  March 01, 2021 by DrMars#side scrolling shooter, #scifi, #platformer

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• ArmorPaint For 3D Textures - Nice!
  November 08, 2020 by DrMars

  Our Art Director (William) has decided to improve the textures of environmental assets by using Armor Paint. It's a free app that can be used with Blender. Below you can see what our assets look like... Continue reading

  
• Rant- Nvidia ShadowPlay Sucks The Big Wazoo
  October 18, 2020 by DrMars

  NVIDIA ShadowPlay Sucks the big Wazoo I really wanted to upload a trailer of my game this week. But during the editing I noticed that I needed to recapture one scene of the game because I had forgot... Continue reading

  
• Gameplay Through Visual Communication - Environmental Narrative
  October 11, 2020 by DrMars

  Today we worked on adding assets that tell the game's story using visual communication. The narrative we need to tell must also tie in with the dialog being read by the main character. This will happ... Continue reading

  
• Pacing and Level Layout
  September 27, 2020 by DrMars

  Our game needs better pacing. To fix this we've decided to add more puzzle jumping between fight scenes with the enemy within each level. To achieve this I've added the following simple maze 1st Jum... Continue reading

  
• Procedural Rhetoric - What The Hell Does That Mean?
  August 30, 2020 by DrMars

  Today William and I spent our time researching the book, "An Architectural Apporach To Level Design" by Christopher W. Totten. I have just starting reading this book and found it is full of great ins... Continue reading

  
• Playtesting and the need for research
  August 25, 2020 by DrMars#sf, #science fiction, #mil sf, #run and gun, #2d, #platformer

  Caputured Playtest for Reference: A new 3D model has been built. It is a enemy dwelling that was originally designed last year. Looking good but more lighting is needed. Looking at other games for ins... Continue reading

  
• New Playtest
  May 04, 2020 by DrMars#scifi, #side scrolling, #run and gun, #2d, #2.5d, #military

  New sprites for the tutorial level, plus a whole new bar scene. Check it out... Continue reading
• New Scene Art
  March 22, 2020 by DrMars#science fiction, #2d, #sidescrolling, #run and gun

  Updated art for the updated bar scene. Merlot now has more facial detail and the armor has improved textures. Good job by William today. I also playtested and updated the tutorial scene, but will upl... Continue reading

  
• Devlog - All Tutorial Sprites Made
  March 01, 2020 by DrMars

  Today's Sprint Bar Scene v2 - Background. Merlot. And animations for head movement. (Today's WIP ) Needed Features List Secen 2 -Squatters under construction (1_1 in game name) Background sprites need... Continue reading

  
• Devlog - New Tutorial Sprite for Controller
  February 09, 2020 by DrMars

  Needed Features List Scene 2 Setup. Basic Layout Draw Tutorial Sprites for secene 1_0 (Keyboard and mouse) Draw Tutorial Sprites for secene 1_0 (individual abilities for Merlot) Secen 2 -Squatters und... Continue reading
• Devlog - Controler Sprites and Background
  February 02, 2020 by DrMars

  Newest Sprites To Date Needed Features List Scene 2 Setup. Basic Layout Draw Tutorial Sprites for secene 1_0 (Keyboard and mouse) Draw Tutorial Sprites for secene 1_0 (individual abilities for Merlot)... Continue reading

  
• New Background Sprites
  December 15, 2019 by DrMars

  William did some new bacground sprites for the second level. Here they are:... Continue reading

  
• Devlog - Begin work on Squatter Scene
  December 01, 2019 by DrMars

  We now move closer to getting the Squatter scene fleshed out. The basic layout will be as roughed out below. Taking some inpiration from Guacamelee, the gameplay will require that you kill enemies tha... Continue reading

  
• Devlog - Scene One update
  November 24, 2019 by DrMars

  Notes from SG: Today I just did some basic playtesting and improved some lightweight stuff on scene 1: Lights are now glowing over the tutorial sprites. Also, I improved the layout to make it a bit mo... Continue reading
• Devlog
  November 17, 2019 by DrMars

  As of Nov. 15th Features: New Fish Sprites - Dead sprites for Fish Enemy 2 Adding new Fish Enemy for Scene 1_1 (renamed from old 3.2) Layout Basic Layout for Scene 2 Draw Tutorial Sprites Achievemen... Continue reading
• Devlog - Unity Upgrade
  November 10, 2019 by DrMars#devlog, #Unity Upgrade

  Devlog as of Nov 10th It's been a month since the team has been able to meet up in a meaningful way. To get things rolling our lead engineer, Jac, helped get our unity verssion upgraded without much h... Continue reading
• Merlot Concept Art
  October 13, 2019 by DrMars#Scroller, #2.5D

  Merlot scraping alien poop from his boot!... Continue reading

  
• Playtest of New Enemy Animation
  September 22, 2019 by DrMars#animation, #playtest, #unity

  Just looking for feedback. A short playtest of a new enemy in my unity project, Planet Null. Testing AI transitions between state... Continue reading
• Backlog
  September 22, 2019 by DrMars#backlog

  As of Sept. 22nd Features: New Fish Sprites - Need Idle and Dead sprites Adding new Fish Enemy for Scene 1_1 (renamed from old 3.2) Layout Basic Layout for Scene 2 Draw Tutorial Sprites Achievement... Continue reading
• New Fish Anaimation for Walking
  September 15, 2019 by DrMars

  All 4 walking sprites done!... Continue reading

  
• Backlog
  September 15, 2019 by DrMars

  As of Sept. 15th Features: Improve Layout for tutorial scene Draw Tutorial Sprites Achievement scoreboard between scenes (still looking at this) Move death FX (blood) to offset Y and X on death of... Continue reading
• New Fish Enemy Animations
  September 08, 2019 by DrMars

  New animation sprites for the tougher Fish Enemy. Looking good!... Continue reading

  
• Backlog
  September 08, 2019 by DrMars

  As of Sept. 8th Features: Improve Layout for tutorial scene Draw Tutorial Sprites Achievement scoreboard between scenes (still looking at this) Move death FX (blood) to offset Y and X on death of e... Continue reading
• Next Level Enemy Concept Art
  September 01, 2019 by DrMars

  We've been working on a new Fish enemy for Planet Null. This is the next version of what William worked on last week. Color scheme is blue. And I had Will add some chest armor lines on the side panel... Continue reading

  
• Backlog Sept. 1st
  September 01, 2019 by DrMars

  Backlog of new features: As of Sept. 1st Features: Improve Layout for tutorial scene Tutorial Sprites list for controller Draw Tutorial Sprites Achievement scoreboard between scenes (still looking a... Continue reading
• Playtest Gun Rotation
  August 31, 2019 by DrMars

  Playtest of the new bug fix that Jac put into the game. Guns could be rotated 360 degrees without turning upside down until we switched controls over to the Xbox controller. Then a bug showed up due t... Continue reading
• Playtest
  August 18, 2019 by DrMars#Game Design, #playtest

  Some video capture from today's playtest... Continue reading
• Backlog
  August 18, 2019 by DrMars#design, #backlog

  Backlog of new features: As of August 18th Features: Improve Layout for tutorial scene Tutorial Sprites for controler Achievement scoreboard between scenes (still looking at this) Move death FX (bl... Continue reading

  
• Ship Sprite with Glowing Lights
  August 11, 2019 by DrMars#ship, #sprite, #test

  Here is a test of our final art for the landing ship at the start of the game. I've added glowing collision lights that I think add a nice effect... Continue reading
• Backlog August 11th
  August 11, 2019 by DrMars#backlog

  Backlog of new features: As of August 11th Achievement scoreboard between scenes Mouse aiming and joystick at the same time Glory kill ability Adjust death FX so blood spurts near dead fish Push pull... Continue reading

  
• New features to work on
  August 06, 2019 by DrMars#Features, #design

  Backlog of new features: As of August 6th Achievement scoreboard between scenes Enable joystick buttons on Xbox controller Glory kill ability Adjust death FX so blood spurts near dead fish Push pull s... Continue reading
• Spurting Blood for dead enemy
  August 04, 2019 by DrMars

  Nothing major but I did spend some time with William(art director) adding a blood effect to the death of our enemy NPCs. You can see it "spurting" in the attached image. However, it seems to be locate... Continue reading

  
• New Team and Upate Coming Soon
  July 28, 2019 by DrMars#2.5D, #plaformer, #run and gun, #sf, #science fiction, #humor, #military

  We have now a head of engineering. His name is JAC and he's freaking awesome. Together with me, DrMars, and Will, our Art Director, we are now a team of three. Planet Null has been worked on over the... Continue reading
• Version after Game Launch
  July 28, 2018 by DrMars

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  This will be the last version using last years version of Unity 1.1f and Corgi 5. We made lots of small changes during the game launch, and they are now encapsulated on this final pre-alpha version of... Continue reading
• Planet_Null005
  July 28, 2018 by DrMars

  Added more bonus items and platforms to the upper level More Control Panels to better emphasize how to use weapons Added a BRA Push Me crate to the end of the level. Readers of the books will know wha... Continue reading
• PlanetNull004
  July 16, 2018 by DrMars

  Fixed Scene Reload button from Pause menu Added tutorial control board for weapon and armor usage... Continue reading
• PlanetNull 003
  July 15, 2018 by DrMars

  Made wall jumps easier better lighting Some new layout Merlot Advice added Some achievement in plac... Continue reading