Why didn't everyone steal this?
Doom 3 had ingame 3d console things that you had an actual cursor on- you could click buttons and such. In 2004, this was the coolest thing I'd ever seen.
Keep reading »I can handle environment decals the same way I handle particle effects from bullets hitting objects- just spawn a textured plane in front of the object, rather than a particle effect. I don't know why I never thought of this before.
Inspiration
I want to explore my early references for Rampages, as well as more recent sources of inspiration.
Keep reading »Thoughts on MISERY
I've recently been replaying the hilariously named S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat, with the rather aptly named MISERY mod.
Keep reading »Music
After listening to the Klad Hest remix of Rano Pano on Mogwai's recent A Wrenched Virile Lore remix album, which strongly reminded me of certain parts of the System Shock 2 soundtrack (see below), I decided to try and make something that roughly imitated the style and atmosphere of it.
Keep reading »Networking in Unity
Yesterday I spent maybe an hour setting up a working networked game (using a loose definition of 'game').
Keep reading »Drive
I just watched Drive for the third time. I'll apologise in advance for referring to the driver as 'Gosling', but it's way more natural. Sorry.
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I'm looking forward to seeing it filled with cash, scorpions, drugs, incriminating documents and what not- it should be a pretty versatile prop!
Keep reading »Names
I was thinking about pluralising the title so it becomes "Rampages" rather than just "Rampage", seeing as it's intended to have multiple narratives which aren't necessarily connected. Initially I figured this would make sense simply to be more descriptive, although if I'm aiming to be descriptive I should probably cut the "Sun" and "Surf" parts.
But for now, I think it'll be called Rampages: Sun, Surf & Death.