A couple of new weapons
December 4th, 2008
Aubrey passed me along a set of weapons to show you guys from Overgrowth. Here are the rapier and main gauche. The rapier is designed for piercing while the main gauche is used for parrying and disarming. As you can tell from the engravings, these are used by the cats. They're not really the kind of weapons you'd ...
Lugaru Competition Voting Period Begins
December 4th, 2008
We are officially starting phase two of the Lugaru video contest! All of the entries have been submitted and now we are starting a three day voting period, ending Saturday, December 6th at 11:59 PM PST. You can view all of the entries here: Lugaru contest entries The owner of the video with the most WeGame "Likes" at the ...
Overgrowth is picking up steam...
December 3rd, 2008
And Steam is picking up Overgrowth! Well, I guess Overgrowth has become big enough to be noticed by the guys at Valve -- Overgrowth is going to be distributed on Steam! This is huge news for us, given that Steam is the premiere platform for PC games. We are really excited by this news, and it's awesome to think that ...
Object shadows
December 2nd, 2008
I extended the shadows and ambient occlusion maps to include static objects such as rocks and trees! The only thing left to do for the static lighting is to add lightmaps for shadows cast onto the objects.
Overgrowth Weekly Alpha
December 1st, 2008
Hey guys, we have just posted this week's Overgrowth Alpha, bringing us up to week 2! There is a lot of new stuff that's been covered on the blog recently (be sure to subscribe) and, of course, a little bit that hasn't. ;) The big changes are with the terrain rendering engine, bringing sweet shadows and higher detail ...
World of Goo design tour
November 30th, 2008
Whenever I play a game, I look for design lessons that I can learn and apply to my own games. Recently, I decided to show these lessons in the form of a video tour of games that make interesting design decisions. The first one is about World of Goo by 2Dboy. Please forgive the stiff narration; I am still getting ...
Preorder Overgrowth for Free!
November 30th, 2008
Yes, you read that right! Thanks to TrialPay, you can get a copy of Overgrowth for free simply by signing up for a free trial for another company like Netflix or by completing an offer for much less than the $29.95 Overgrowth costs. We have been testing this out in IRC to make sure everything works. Well, the experiment ...