Progress update – 4/09

So things have been pretty quiet from us ever since we posted our initial batch of screenshots. What’s up with that? Did we die? Are we too busy playing Ghouls vs. Humans to get any work done?

Well, not quite (though who knows – a lot of GvH may be being played)! While a lot has been going on, nothing is *quite* ready to be announced yet. However, if everything goes smoothly, within the next week I’ll be able to tell you about some hirings, as well as your first opportunity to see (and play!) Project Vega in person! That’s right – you’ll get the opportunity to tell me about how boring and crappy it is to play in person!

Anyway, things have been going extremely well, as those of you following our Twitter accounts may well be aware of. We’re all in the midst of producing a 3 map demo to help us build the foundation of our game. Todd has been working on the first map of this demo, and I’ve been writing up the design documents for the game, which detail everything that should be implemented (menus, monsters, weapons, etc.) as well as some guidelines for how those things are to be implemented (ex. “make it so that the monster is fun and doesn’t suck”).

One of the people we’ve brought aboard, whose hiring we haven’t announced yet (but can you figure out who it is?), has started taking these design documents and drawing sketches of the monsters in them. Once the sketch gets approved, he takes the sketch and builds a model out of it, which then gets skinned, animated, and anything else done to it down the line that we feel it needs.

… wait, you want to see one of those sketches? Well, alright then!

This is a concept sketch of one of the monsters that will be appearing in Project Vega. If we’re lucky, and I don’t completely suck as a game designer, it should be plenty of fun to fight against!

Anyway, more from us later!