10 worked with @heathermarra.bsky.social to edit together our final trailer! it will be revealed at a later time 🤫 (the gamer lights keyboard is not reflective of who I am as a person)
Ghoti Games
@ghotigames.bsky.social
Follow along with us as we build our new game Rags to Witches!
05 we would tweak to get renders of to use the graphic element of the UI? a thought exercise for the future then there's the options menu, @wontonsoup99.bsky.social did the BPing! I think in a future built out version, each options category would have it's own page spread to flip through
04 this is how the pause menu ultimately turned out to look like, it's made fully in illustrator but I wonder how it could be if we made a 3d model that
03 Our illustrator/concept artist May finalized our game's splash art! so I got implement that on our menu and it looks sooo good
02 so did some redesigning of them to make them a harmonious style across the board rather than a bunch of different colors
"Rags to Witches" Dev Logs: Sprint 04 **follow our studio! @ghotigames.bsky.social #gamedev #indiedev Poster by @perpetualpilot.bsky.social
Sprint 4 - 1/8 Another 2 weeks, another sprint complete. As promised in the last update, short but sweet, there's now a full, working loop. Big thanks to @heathermarra.bsky.social and @sonyasambhu.bsky.social for finalizing the environments I'll be showcasing in here. #gamedev #indiedev #R2W
I wanted to make sure the players has enough room to move around, as well as making sure it reads as an airport security checkpoint even though we are using stylized assets. Here are some of the iterations for the airport! #MadeinUnreal #IndieGame #IndieDev #GameDev
07/10 also re: glass bottles & liquid shaders prof Kane also swooped in to help us fix those, so everyone clap for prof Kane pt 2 through watching him I also found out you can just clamp a models vertices via a BP to create varying liquid "heights" which is really cool
06/10 our programmer @thatgamedevdylan.bsky.social had placeholder menus BPs already setup so i went in to start placing the graphics and also tinker with button interactivity/functionality, but WIP also stole the book model made by @heathermarra.bsky.social and vectorized it for the menu design
04/10 the models included (continued): - animal parts (additional to come) - mushrooms - gems (additional to come)
01/10 sooo addressing elephant (mandrake?) in the room, you may notice that our art style looks very different from the previous dev logs... well, yes! new art direction courtesy of prof Kane, everyone say thank you prof Kane
Since this was my first time ever developing an art direction that I needed other people to follow, I thought it would be helpful to make an in depth breakdown of how I got my textures for the other artists on my team. I had to start this process however with lots and lots of iterations.
Sprint 2 - 5/6 While our actual sellable potions have yet to be implemented (as much as our ingredient bottles may look potion-y), I still started work on our shelving system as well. The shelf blueprint is modularly scalable in-editor and spawns nodes on each shelf that hold our items.
Sprint 2 - 4/6 And the "Out with the old, in with the new" mentality didn't stop at newly programmed features, next I re-visited the ingredients system itself. No more floating 3D text, placeholder blocks, or blandness. The new ingredient BP is modular, outlines, and connects to your HUD.
Sprint 2 - 3/6 Still, we're here to dig through people's magical luggage and sniff out some good steals. Next I rigged up a system where interacting with a connected crystal ball brings you to a 3D viewer of the bin inside the luggage scanner where you can click on whatever you'd like to take!
09/12 our beautiful corner setup has been a group effort with everyone touching the lights/post-processing/set dressing at various points
08/12 making sure the jars/potion bottles were properly setup took a lot of time to do right, as there needed to be 3 different material slots had to be carried through from blender to substance to UE5 the glass material was further tweaked in UE5 for fresneling
07/12 I also modeled + texturing various jars/potion bottles but went a bit overboard future-proofing by creating versions where the jar glass/topper/liquid meshes & textures are combined and then also separated in case we want to have just the jar meshes to house non-liquid stuff
06/12 we started putting together a little scene for a beautiful corner but as you can see, the lighting/coloring still looks muddy and off so we are messing with the tone mapping/lighting to try to get that more flat style
05/12 additional texturing updates from last dev logs models we are really trying to make our game look like how the substance texturing looks when it's just the base color layer, but it's been an ongoing process of figuring out the UE5 settings for that
04/12 after some practice sessions, we settled on the general flats style with some AO and lighting/gradient overlays as the main texturing direction, though we are still fine tuning this the tub from last sprint as an example (with some model tweaks)
At the same time, we were also brainstorming ideas for the studio branding and logo. I created the first little concept of our logo that Jet (@perpetualpilot.bsky.social) would perfect and turn into our current logo!
10/14 baggage tub! you know, the thing you put your stuff into when you have to maybe remove your shoes and laptop at the whimsy of whichever agent is on duty it is this shape because i got inspired by some medieval bathing tubs
09/14 baggage scanner pumpkin! there will either be some sort vfx or cloth situation for either opening for the baggage tub (see below) to pass through and be scanned no "conveyer" atm because was planning on creating a tiling pattern then applying to a plane within engine once this is assembled
08/14 modular assets for the baggage scanner part, intended so we can build out either side of the pumpkin (see below) depending on the size of our final environment area
07/14 body scanner! planning on texturing the base dais with runes/glyphs and then have some sort of a flame vfx within the lantern, so they would light up or glow depending on if someone passes/fails the body scanning
06/14 jk here's a nicer shot of the final assets i made, just screenshotted from the viewport i'm kinda bad at sticking to the concept art if I did the original concepting so some big changes happened between the sketch and the final model but this is the imagined layout within the game