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InnerSpace- Sound Design: Matching Sound & Art
InnerSpace 3 commentsWhen working with a very stylized aesthetic, realistic and natural sounds don't reflect the art style the way a game's sound design should. In other words...
InnerSpace: The Virtues (and Pitfalls) of Modular Design
InnerSpace 2 commentsFor an open-world, non-procedurally generated environment, we realized that with the challenges of limited development time and smaller team size, we...
InnerSpace: Sound Design- Creating Sounds form Nothing
InnerSpaceSound design can enhance the mood of a visual piece, while not being at all realistic or conform to expectations of what something “should” sound...
InnerSpace: Level Design- Building a Scenario
InnerSpaceSince level design in an open-world like InnerSpace varies drastically from a more linear game in which the designer can control the player's movements...
InnerSpace: Designing the Archaeologist & Building Narrative via an NPC
InnerSpace 1 commentBecause InnerSpace has no cutscenes, we utilize the Archaeologist as a means of storytelling via player's choice. When and how often the player delivers...
InnerSpace: The Challenges of Open-World Design & Player Choice
InnerSpaceInnerSpace is an open-world game that flows around player choice. Everything, from the direction you head at the start to the objectives you give yourself...
Defining Exploration in Game Design & InnerSpace
InnerSpace 3 commentsWe’ve described InnerSpace as an exploration flying game. While the latter half of that description is apparent, the definition of “exploration”...
World Reveal: The Primeval Garden
InnerSpaceInnerSpace is a game of exploration with several hidden pieces of history to be discovered. This is one of them.
Good Heavens
InnerSpace 1 commentAfter phases of exploration and discovery, each chapter of InnerSpace culminates in an encounter with a massive creature, Demigods. Finding these creatures...
Music Design for InnerSpace’s Title Theme
InnerSpaceChris Miller, first-time PolyKnight Games blog contributor, is the sound designer and music composer on InnerSpace. If you’re reading this post, you...
Player-Vessel: Designing the Plane
InnerSpaceThis post goes over how we designed the plane for InnerSpace. Making a plane that fit the unique visuals and mechanics of our world, but still grounding...
Problems Programming In An Inverted World: Directionality
InnerSpaceHow we've programmed directionality and orientation in an inverted planet.
The Science Behind InnerSpace
InnerSpace 3 commentsJustin Sipes, a friend of ours, wrote a guest article about whether or not the physics of InnerSpace stands up to scrutiny. The answer is in some ways...
InnerSpace Kickstarter is Go!
InnerSpaceInnerSpace started its exciting journey in crowdfunding, yesterday! I've expanded on a few key points about the campaign that I'd like to share with the...
InnerSpace: Crafting a Narrative Aesthetic
InnerSpaceInnerSpace is a game of exploration and discovery, where the object is neither fame nor fortune, but rather the unveiling of another world’s history...
InnerSpace: Designing Backwards, Staying Coherent
InnerSpaceWhen we found ourselves with a good concept and the beginning of a good design, we looked back. We considered the intent of the game and the experience...
World-Building: Shaders & Aesthetics
InnerSpace 4 commentsFor InnerSpace, we created two custom shaders: one for specular/conductive surfaces, like metal, and one for matte surfaces, like wood. We wanted to create...
Creating a New Type of (Flying) Game
InnerSpace 4 commentsTL;DR: Inner Space is a flying game in which typical flying mechanics don’t fit the overall design. Because of this, we focused more on exploration...
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