Overgrowth Weekly 101 - Character art
Q&A #17 with Lukas, Anton, Steve and Max.
Related blog post: http://blog.wolfire.com/2015/10/Overg...
Here is a summary of what we talked about before the Q&A:
00:36 Steve Hong introduces himself, he is a newly hired character artist.
02:03 Steve shows what he has been working on so far.
09:07 Jill who has been working on game design and planning will be leaving Wolfire to work on her robots.
10:11 Wolfire might hire a project manager.
10:36 Lukas has been working on updating the animation export scripts for Blender and he went to the US.
11:24 Max has worked on mod support as well as debug rendering, bug fixing and logging.
20:37 Steve has been working on exploring designs for each race, gender differentiation and unique character designs.
21:11 Anton has been working on the orchestra project.
23:04 Ketih has been working on world building.
24:33 Mark and Josh has kept working on the arenas. Josh has been working on a blog post about object spawner thumbnails and the Lugaru campaign that he has worked on. Micah has kept working on the arena gameplay.
25:12 The next alpha is very close to release.
25:55 We want to move towards releasing alphas several times a month, but that might be a while away since we are not at full steam yet.
27:27 Gyrth has been working on some alternate game modes and a hotspot that animates an object when triggered.
Here are the community questions with accompanying time stamps and summaries of the answers. If you want to hear the full answer, go to the related time stamp in the video:
29:40 - huey
Q: What are you most exited to work on?
A: Max says mod support, Steve says working on the rats and versus mode character designs, Lukas says working on tools, Anton says dynamic music.
38:42
Q: Will you consider moving from Visual Studio to makefiles?
A: We already do use makefiles.
40:07
Q: Will you consider moving from Awesomium to Chromium Embedded Framework?
A: We have not looked into it, but it is a possibility.
Here is the show on the website: http://ogweekly.com/101.htm
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Overgrowth Weekly is a live show airing on some Sundays at 21:00 CET. In it we discuss Wolfire and Overgrowth news and show you what the Wolfire community is up to. http://ogweekly.com
Overgrowth is a 3d action-adventure game for Mac, Windows, and Linux, coming soon from the independent game studio, Wolfire Games. It is the spiritual successor to Lugaru. http://wolfire.com/overgrowth