DEV BLOG ENTRY 7: GAMESCOM 2013 PART II
After last week’s inside look into our, slightly un- experienced, master plan for game convention attendance it’s time to talk about the actual gamescom 2013 experience. ARRIVAL We took a plane to Dortmund, it was the cheapest option, and then a train to Cologne. It’s important to mention that.
DEV BLOG ENTRY 6: GAMESCOM 2013 PART I
Better late than never, right. We might have skipped a couple of weeks after we promised to write about our gamescom 2013 preparations, but the whole process took way more time and manpower and we really couldn't find the time to write about it. Now that it’s over we can do a nice summary and tell.
DEV BLOG ENTRY 5: SMOKE AND FIRE
After we skipped last week due to a small holiday break (we need those once in a while), we return with our weekly blog updates to talk about the visual effects in Excubitor. Since we covered the process of asset creation up to this point we can now assume that said asset is already placed in the game world to enrich
DEV BLOG ENTRY 4: ASSET WRAP UP
Today we reach the final chapter of the asset creation story. After the modeling and base texturing it’s time to beautify the texture with some additional tricks, all of which are essential when creating a model intended for video games. NORMAL MAP The first step is to create a normal map for the model. There are two methods for normal map creation.
DEV BLOG ENTRY 3: HULL PAINTING 101
After last week’s talk about the fundamental principles of 3D modeling for games it’s time to explain the next step in the process. Once the object is modeled, with everything that was mentioned in the previous post taken in consideration, the result would look something like this. In order for the texture artist to be able to paint the object he will
DEV BLOG ENTRY 2: MODELING FOR GAMES
It's time to talk about the art creation process in EXCUBITOR. In our development pipeline, and I am pretty sure the same goes for all other game studios as well, artistic design is the first step in the content creation process. At the beginning, when the initial team of Aleksandar and Ivan started
Dev Blog Entry 0: The Basics
IMPORTANT NOTE: We decided to scrape all of our previous news updates and start bringing you development news in a more streamlined, organized, and hopefully, interesting fashion. FRIENDLY WARNING: Wall of text to follow. THE GENESIS Some four and a half years ago, after spending most of their youth in the embrace of the video game culture, Ivan Ivanovski and Aleksandar Jovanovski made
Welcome to Excubitor
Welcome to the website for Excubitor, a new video game project by Tesseract Games. Here you will be able to read all the latest news and updates concerning the development of the game, our release plans and view all of the media content that we have made available. Excubitor is an action game.