DevLog

Welcome, Eco-Activists! “Eco Quest: Explore, Discover, Protect!” has been steadily improving since our previous update, with a focus on making it more engaging and visually attractive. The work we’ve done is exciting, so let’s delve into it. Completed Artwork: A Realm Revives An incredible metamorphosis has taken place in our game’s initial stage. The completed […]

As you guys know, until mid-May 2024, this project is carried out as an MSc final project, so there are a few constraints, starting with the one-man team and going down to having to satisfy the faculty’s requests. So, this week’s development round suffered from an unplanned assignment, and a lot of the time planned

So, here we are again! As a coder, it’s been quite the challenge for me to make this first monster look alive! 😂 Well, I hope it worked well enough to get it into the game without too much negative feedback. 🤞 I’m now presenting the two animations I have prepared for the Deforestation Monster:

So, rigging, rigging, and rigging 😅 I confess that this is totally not my preferred type of work! I’m a game designer and a coder, so I’m not very good and definitely very slow when it comes to art-related things. The thing is that I have to do some of the artwork for this project

Here we go! I just approved this first sketch depicting Kai, our hero! The next step is to have the final character and then rig it for Spine PRO. If all goes according to the plan, we’ll soon see Kai moving around the initial level of the game 😎

While the main character, Kai, is in the work with one of my contractors, I’m looking at some ideas for the enemies. Here, I’m presenting six monsters I came up with after some brainstorming. These are candidates only, to be determined if and how they will be implemented. They are inspired by climate issues, and

EOS: Great news! Epic Games has already approved the EOS Branding for Eco Quest, so that’s out of the way. 😁 STEAM has not yet been submitted because I still need to fill in many parts to have the game (and its public testing environment) submitted for approval. Today, I will keep going on this,

<RANT mode=”on”> Well, here I am, preparing all the necessary bits for publishing on Steam is a lot of work, the grunt work nobody wants to do, but as this comes as a one-man team, I really cannot delegate, can I? So here I am, working on setting up everything necessary to have the game

Welcome to my first DevLog entry! I’m Pino (Giuseppe De Francesco), and I’ll be the only one posting on this DevLog until the close of the 2023-2024 academic year. Let’s get started with a few technical choices and related motivation. Game Engine I’m mostly an Unreal Engine person, but let’s be realistic: UE5 for 2D