Author: Will Gaddis

Pretty happy with how my level turned out. I think the textures are great, and the mood comes together well. I could certainly add more animations and some clutter to the level, but it came together mostly as I envisioned, though to a smaller scale than originally planned.

So, i’ve fallen a bit behind because of my attempts to texture the level with substance painter. But that’s done! Planning on doing animations this weekend along with the other assignment, but I’m happy with how the objects turned out.

 

if anyone was curious substance painter makes textures using node-based coding to create maps for color, height, normal, roughness, and metallic.

I also want to figure out how to export a baked emissive map

So for my level i dont have much of an environment, just a beach. Im not fully sure how i want the beach to look like yet though, so i made the correct sizing and will add extra details to it later. I want to finish the rest of my level first before i focus on the level

 

 

what i’ve mainly been spending my past few days is learning a new software I was introduced to called substance painter. I want to use substance painter to texture my level, so I used it to finish my detailed model gun as practice. This is how it turned out. I have already just begun the process of texturing my modular level. I really like this new program and it’s ability to create interesting and realistic textures with good normals easily, but it took awhile to get a handle of.

 

This is the detailed gun model I created. I think the model is really good, but i still need to work on texturing. My hope is to hand paint extra details on the barrel of the gun, but need to fix the UVs a little to do that. I also need to add specular maps and fix normal maps.

I decided to model the matchlock musket

 

Here are photos i took at the WAM

these are basic sketches of detailed parts of the gun

and this is my current model. I still need to add the bolt mechanism and add textures

 

These walls and assets should be able to build a reasonable varying city block. I just need to make the roofs and fix some texture mapping that came out weird.

My models are designed to create modular buildings for cities, and so I created various walls that can be mixed and matched. There are 2 main wall variants which will have different textures, and each wall variant has different types of windows and decor. I also designed pipes, storm drains, and other miscellaneous pieces that can go on any wall piece to add variation.

this is an example of a building i made with my kit

 

these are the reference photos and textures

 

 

and these are the sketches

 

 

My level will be a small area of a waterfront district in a steampunk/medieval city.

These are the sketches of the layout of the level, with one side being low and next to the water and the other side being made of tall buildings and a clock tower.

 

 

and these are screenshots of the basic block-in

 

“The Scourge of Aleria” is a game about ridding the once beautiful kingdom of Aleria from the rats and diseases that came with them. In the opening of the game, the player is introduced to Queen Diala and her animal kingdom of Aleria. It is a beautiful, sprawling, technologically advanced city, until approximately 5 years before the time of the game when a huge infestation of rats moves into the city and overpopulates, driving most other inhabitants out of Aleria or into the rich district. In the 5 years after the invasion, the city has fallen apart into a steamy, polluted, overcrowded, and messy dump.

You play as Max, a cat of the Queen’s guard who has been training since a kitten to protect the queen. After a near fatal attempt is made at the queen’s life, you are tasked with ridding the city of these horrible rats with any means necessary. As the game goes on, the player will meet other characters in the city who aid Max, make him new gear, and train him with new abilities. Towards the end of the game, the rats will retaliate on the queen, and Max will have to defend Diala with other members of the queen’s guard.

The game will be set in a large open-world style city with various districts. The main elements of the game are stealth and mobility. Max can climb and run up, along, and inside almost all buildings and landmarks. When he gets near rats, trails of smell will hint the direction of the rats. If max can approach near a rat undetected he can perform a surprise assassination. If the rats notice Max due to hearing him run or seeing him, they will scurry to a hiding spot. The players must then chase after the rats, avoiding obstacles, and accurately running after them if they hope to catch the rats. As the game goes on, rats will begin to arm themselves and travel in groups for protection. Players can set traps to ambush these rats, use environmental damage to harm them, or choose to fight rats in the open. Players will have to chain together attacks and use various skills in these fights. Various crypts of a legendary cat warrior named Gallaford are hidden around the city. Gallaford was a member of the first queen’s guard centuries ago. These crypts all contain remnants of Gallaford’s legendary sword and horn, which the player must eventually collect in Zelda-like dungeons and have put back together to fight back the rats in the final act of the game.

I wanted to explore gameplay as the cat rather than as the mice, so the player had a sense of power and able to hunt enemies. I wanted an open world for the player to play in for more varied choices and better player freedom, and decided to change the setting from just one castle to a large city (run by the queen in the castle.) Most story elements from the book are kept, but rearranged (such as the sword belonging to an ancient cat rather than an ancient mouse.)

PLAYER OBJECTIVES: Sneak and kill rats while avoiding detection.

GAME MECHANICS: Climb and run around the city, stealth assassinate targets. Fight using abilities and weapons. Solve puzzles in Gallaford’s crypts.

CHARACTERS AND KEY OBJECTS: Max, Diala, Gallaford’s legendary sword and horn

GAME WORLD: A large, steampunk themed city with a dirty, grimy color-scheme except for the rich district which remains white and gold with palaces and parks. Different areas in clude the mill, the waterfront district, the city center, the slums, the industrial park, the rich district, and the Royal Palace.

GAMEPLAY HIGHLIGHTS, HOOKS, FEATURES: Non-linear gameplay, freedom to roam around, various side-quests. Fast-paced action. Enjoyable dungeon puzzles.

AUDIENCE: Teen and higher, violence and language suggest games for kids around 15 or older. Patience and skill for sneaking around and mastering the controls also requires a slightly older audience.

GAME STYLE/PLAYER EXPERIENCE: “The scourge of Aleria” is intended to give players control over their experience. You can either take the game stealthily and deliberately, or chase and fight enemies. New skills and gear, and changing enemy tactics give the player a sense of progression.

 

 

Hi Everyone! I’m just starting my sophomore year so I don’t have an abundance of high quality works but hopefully that should change soon.

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