My last post was for PAX East 2014; a year later and I’m
newly home from PAX East 2015. I will try to quickly make an update on what has
happened over the past year.
Shortly after PAX East 2014, I participated in my second
Game Jam with the Buffalo Game Space. The game’s theme was “parallel
universes.” We came up with a game called Quantum Sliders where the game
alternates between 3 types of game play. The game switches from a
side-scroller, to a beat’em up, to a top down shooter every several seconds.
Since the 2014 Global Game Jam, I was encouraged to get into 3d modeling in
Maya to focus my game design skill set. So, that was what I did for this game.
I designed several enemies in 3d and had them move in different positions so
that we could have a few frames. This allowed them to animate a bit in unity.
For this game jam I also designed the level lay out. The game can be played at
the following link.
My friend Aaron saw my Maya work on Facebook and asked me if
I was interested in working with him on a Star Trek web comic. I agreed and I
started working on modeling ships for the comic. I will update the “Other
Projects” section with my work on this.
In September of 2014 I participated in another Game Jam with
the Buffalo Game Space. Our theme was “let’s do something weird.” We broke up
into smaller groups for this Game Jam and I focused mostly on 3d models in
Maya. I designed the first level once you leave the hall way with all of the
doors. I also designed most of the props in the second level (the TV, Lamp,
Couch and Knife) after the hallway. I worked on the first draft of the script
and did some of the voice work. We choose to call the game Enlightenment
because when we first started brainstorming we brought up the idea and stages
of enlightenment. Below is the link for
this game.
In January 2015 I participated in my second Global Game Jam.
This year’s theme was “What do we do now?” The group I was a part of came up
with the idea to do a “choose your own adventure” type game where the scenario
was a job interview. As in a normal interview you are asked a series of
questions. What makes this game interesting is the strange questions with the
even stranger answer choices. I modeled the office which is the back drop for
the interview. We called our game The Awkward Position.
In January I was talking with Aaron and about the comic book
and had the idea of starting a second project: A Star Trek Podcast. We played
around with some names for the podcast but after a while Synthaholics was born.
We hope to have our first show up and running sometime this month. Below is a
link for the Podcast page. Please note that the page is sparse because the
podcast is not yet live. I have also put together a Facebook group for
Synthaholics and a twitter page. Please join and follow by clicking the
Facebook and twitter buttons on the Synthaholics web page.
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