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Tutorials suck, sometimes
The Nightmare from BeyondThis time I wanted to show you a little of what we’re doing for tutorials. Personally, I don’t really like regular on-screen tutorials where you’re...
Postmortem: Enola
Enola 2 commentsEnola was a challenging game to make. Not because it was hard to program, but because of the story and things it needed to portray: it was a story about...
The suit: designs and redesigns
The Nightmare from OutspaceWe took a lot of references from H. R. Giger and Beksinski and then we came up with an initial look, and then we began to work from there.
The Nightmare of Level Design (heh)
The Nightmare from OutspaceA brief description of the level design. Here we describe the whole idea behind the levels, how they work and what we plan to do.
Definitive-ish game concept and story
The Nightmare from Outspace 1 commentThis is a brief article about "The Nightmare from Outspace," explaining what the game is about, how it plays, and what are the inspirations.
Game concept, some info, and such
The Nightmare from OutspaceIt took me longer than expected but I'm finally posting more info about this game. It's going to be a sci-fi 3D action-ish platformer where you explore...
The Silo is a total nightmare
EnolaSome notes about the factory level, one of the last levels in Enola.
Crouching makes things a lot more dangerous
EnolaI’ve been talking with one of the guys here for some time about the possibilities of adding crouching. This was not an easy question, actually. The...
Postmortem: Our first Rezzed exhibition
EnolaI’d dare say we were the first team from El Salvador, traveling from El Salvador to England, to exhibit at Rezzed. Here you can read how it all went.
Game ideas: guard impact for Enola?
Enola 2 commentsYou know how modern horror games have turned into these “hide and seek” or “hit me until I die” things because devs take away all means of defense...
Interview with Nick Borrego by slasherjpc
EnolaENOLA: Interview with Nick Borrego. A written interview was recently posted on Spawnfirst
Game Undesign: Designing around limitations
Enola 1 commentit can be interesting to see what happens when you make the game “you wanna make” but you take into consideration what your limitations are, and what...
Shadow men got moves!
Enola 1 commentI’ve been working on some mocap for Enola using iPi desktop motion capture, and I wanted to show you a glimpse of what we’re doing with it.
Angelica animation test
Enola 2 commentsLast week I was testing the motion capture setup using my Playstation Eye cameras and iPi Desktop Motion Capture. The system yelds pretty decent results...
Enola gets motion capture!
Enola 1 commentA while ago I wrote about using Face Robot (a facial animation module in Softimage) for facial animation, but I still hadn’t addressed the body animation...
Building characters (building Angelica)
EnolaToday I want to talk (or rather, write) about characters and why this matters. In some games, characters are "empty vessels" that players step into, but...
Enola alpha 0.6 is out!
EnolaEnola is (in not so many words) a game where: You’re a girl on a mysterious place, looking for her loved one, and you need to rescue her before it’s...
Evolution of Enola, and last post…
Enola 3 commentsOriginally posted on my blog on Dec 31st 2012 ...since this is the last post of 2012, I guess it should be something meaningful so I’ll be talking about...
Enola character profiles: Building Angelica
EnolaThis may be good or bad, but to me story comes first, simply because I am not half as good at “designing” games as I am at writing. A while ago I’ve...
More in saving games: "the treasure box"
EnolaAfter thinking about this, I've decided to use "save spots" in Enola. The next step was to decide whatkind of object to use for those save spots.
Why making a violent game may make sense
EnolaI was interviewed by Eric Caoili from Gamasutra a couple of weeks ago. Someone on the comments asked why not make a non-violent game instead, and I thought...
The idea behind the cellar found in "the next level"
Enola 1 commentOne of the good things of the open alpha-funding devemopment is that input from the community can help shape many things in a game. This is one of those...
About saving games
EnolaAfter watching many gameplay videos, and seeing people lose (a lot of) progress when they die, I'm wondering what's the best way to manage saves.
First ludum dare - Postmortem: Enola
EnolaThis was the first time I entered ludum dare. It's been a very nice experience to develop a game from concept to "somewhat finished" product in two days...
More on the visual style
Parasite 3 commentsParasite is not aiming for "photorealism" since we don't want the game to look like (almost) every other UE3-powered game out there. Let us know the one...
Too sexy for power-ups???
SteroidSA description on the power-ups found in the game, how they were designed and how they work. Includes a description of the upcoming power-up: The BSG
Designing SteroidS
SteroidSThis is an overview of how SteroidS was designed, and how the design for a game can come from unlikely and dumb situations.
Level design, or rather maze design?
ParasiteA brief discussion on how we design the levels in Parasite.
Keeping the design moving forward
Parasite"Games are not finished, they escape." This post is an extremely brief discussion about how the design of the game evolves over time. More will be discussed...
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