I have been working on 2 complementary things at the same time: improving my modelling skills and finding a suiting art style for Manage the Universe. I love the process of modelling with Blender, it is really satisfying for me. And I find it easy to get myself to work on modelling, so I thatContinue reading “19 – Having fun modelling”
Author Archives: Erik_de_Roos
Bi-Weekly update 18
Hi, Erik here. A solo game developer doing his ‘thing’. Currently I’m writing this on the evening of my weekend. For me writing this article is a fun way to get me thinking about all the things I accomplished the past to weeks. And for you a way to keep notice of the interesting thingsContinue reading “Bi-Weekly update 18”
Prototype phase 2
Product development is a hard thing to do. It is so easy to want to go too fast. The reasons don’t matter: if you don’t have enough information on your product and its market yet, you are in for a bumpy ride if you push through. I know all this stuff from business software development,Continue reading “Prototype phase 2”
The competition
Tell me, do you often experience something like this: you have a great idea, start working on it, and one day you stumble upon a video and it seems as if the whole world is already creating the idea’s you had in mind. And they where doing this for like the past 2 years already,Continue reading “The competition”
Bi-Weekly update 17
Manage the Universe Last update I wanted to create a holographic view of the second world detail level. But I would not be me if I worked on something else. I had a hard time determining how it should look like so I decided to let the idea mature a bit more. Asking for aContinue reading “Bi-Weekly update 17”
Bi-Weekly update 16
Business A quick overview of the business side of things. Due to the whole COVID thing there is still much uncertainty in the market. Especially on the freelance / consultancy side. And since I am a single developer with no profitable game released yet, my money comes from savings of the freelancing I do inContinue reading “Bi-Weekly update 16”
Bi-Weekly update 15
Manage the Universe Another two weeks of progress have been made on ‘Manage the Universe’. Still working on very rough concepts. But I have some nice screenshots to spice it up! World surface generator Most of the work went into the tile generator. This system will generate the surface of the world where your characterContinue reading “Bi-Weekly update 15”
Bi-Weekly update 14
Manage the Universe Two weeks of hard work have gone into ‘Manage the Universe’. I wanted to get a visual stimulating progress to show to you my readers… but instead I ended up creating a lot of code and doing a few sessions on game design. I’m getting an idea of what I want withContinue reading “Bi-Weekly update 14”
Bi-Weekly update 13
New content As a solo game developer I have to make stuff happen across a broad range of expertise’s. That is not easy as a specialist. And I think a lot of small (starting) business have these issues. So that is why I want to share my practices. I did some website analyzing past 2Continue reading “Bi-Weekly update 13”
Azure DevOps Unity3D pipeline
This is an article to accompany my video about setting up an Azure DevOps pipeline for a local build agent with Unity3D. For those who want the files: https://gamefeelings.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/helper-files-for-azure-devops-unity-build-2.zip And here the links to a few other resources: Azure DevOps Agent installation instruction Inno setup Unity3D extension for Azure DevOps Azure Why Azure DevOps IContinue reading “Azure DevOps Unity3D pipeline”
