Posts

The process of creating the initial plate puzzle (for the wife sequence), a first test of an 'IRL' asset, fixing elusive standalone build bugs, small Lore Inspect improvements, Unity's response to the DirectX 12 G-SYNC bug and new milestones.

Finally figuring out what was the cause of that weird Unity DX12 stutter, necessary change to the start cutscene idea, lore item inspect mechanic, rough office block out and a couple more smaller fixes and things.

Documenting the new clay asset Blender to Unity pipeline, acquiring the Clay Doh shader, new camera effects for better immersion, rough sequence layouts, new milestones and more.

Explaining a major genre pivot, finding a musical identity for the game and discussing a trailer concept.

Finding out the power draw of Vive's SteamVR Watchman dongles plus creating the USB 2.0 Peeper in the meantime.

The process of designing and creating a prototype of the phone puzzle and what I learned during it.

Fixing a very weird WaitForGPU bug, testing performance implications of high poly 3D scanned models, engine version bump and picking an ImGui wrapper for debug menus.

Getting back to work, finalizing the game's direction, issues in-between and future milestones.

Describing my first try at the devised clay to engine pipeline.

Another solo therapy sesh and finally taking a long deserved break.

Initial layout block out and very first test build of the game.

A solo therapy session of a tired CS student.

Creating the Unity project and some initial coding.

Describing my first try at the devised clay to engine pipeline.

Buying a new computer, getting familiar with the contest rules and solving an unexpected issue.

A little summary of the first proper meeting for Demersus.

A look in to the behind the scenes of finishing my first gamedev project.

Announcement, explanation and summary of what was done up to this point with Project Demersus.