Procedural Generation and Randomness
“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
Automatic scaling of VR worlds is in and is working!
Big update this week – we unveil a big feature of Unseen Diplomacy 2 that you have all been waiting for! We also talk about Venturefest and what gameplay we have so far.
Preparing for Veturefest
It’s been a bit of an ‘everything’ week here as we’ve been preparing a build for Venturefest South West, which is an innovation and investment event we’ll be showing and talking at next week.
Making the building blocks
It’s been a really productive week at Triangular Pixels! We’ve had pretty dull and boring gray rooms for a while, but now we’ve started getting in more game-looking rooms and challenges. This weeks blog post is about how we’re authoring our environment visuals (with a disclaimer that they are still very much in progress!).
Visual Effect Breakdown – Lasers
Lasers are an important part of our game, so since they’ve got a big visual overhaul, I thought it’d be interesting to break it down and see how all the elements work together.
Diegetic Design: A Start that Makes Sense
Something I’ve has been working on recently is how we start and finish levels in Unseen Diplomacy 2. We’re keen on keeping everything in world through the use of diegetic design.
Portal Rendering Part 2 – Rendering Portals in UD2
Welcome back! Last time we talked a little about the history of portals in games, this time I’m going to go into some of the details of getting portals to work in Unity for UD2.
Portal Rendering Part 1 – A Brief History Of Portals
Unseen Diplomacy is all about bending space around the player so they can explore a really big space in a much smaller space. The way we did this in UD1 was technically very simple, but required a lot of careful manual work. For UD2 I want to use portals instead, so let’s do a brief history of portals why they’re… read more
The State of VR Survey: Keep Going Agent!
We hope you had some great holidays! We’re back in the office after a month of moving and of various family activities and our new DV1 Knuckles have arrived. This weeks blog post we’re continuing to analyse the results of our survey, and will be covering accessibility issues.
The State of VR Survey: How does your VR room compare?
The results of our survey are in! With the help of the SWCTN we had some proper time to sit and seriously research, and this time is all about where VR games are played.
