Trailer of the work I’ve done in game development. My current big project is Ace Perinova, a PC space flight sim that expands my ideas from Space’s Aces, and a mobile board game with some unique mechanics and strategy.
I'm very happy with how I've been breaking all the data in my mech game down into structs and scriptable objects. Definitely going to make putting content together down the road a much simpler proposition!
A ringworld and the planet it was built off of. A bit of world building concept art for Ace Perinova. There’s a very fun whacky sci-fi explanation for why it needed to be built, and how it was even possible. That’s a story for some other time.
Just wanted to share. I’m working for a small little project over the next month. Creating a solid, good feeling character controller for an artist at Bungie. So there may be less of my work for that time, but there will still be some. Fun little project either way.
Some work in progress sci-fi art from yours truly. Thought I’d share because I don’t know when they’ll be done, and I also just personally think unfinished art can be cool sometimes. They can give really weird, but cool vibes sometimes. Though normally, I personally prefer to post complete art.
A ring world built in the habitable zone of a small star. Structures around the star simulate day-night for the surface. I initially wanted to make a Dyson sphere, but I feel like this fits better as concept art for Ace Perinova. Even then, it might be the wrong aesthetic. But it was fun to paint, and created a feeling I wanted to see.
New piece of environment concept art for my game: Ace Perinova. I've been working on these mood setting pieces of environment art as they come to me lately. It’s not as flashy as exploding ships or some new cool gameplay feature, but they help set the atmosphere for potential levels. At the very least, they look pretty cool and make me feel good to see. I make them in 16:9 ratio so that I can match the game view exactly to the image in the future if I want.
Small utility app for Pokémon players or nuzlockers that makes searching Pokémon by generation easy.
My Serebii Search app that allows you to easily search for a Pokémon's Serebii page has by generation has been updated for both Windows and Android to now properly search for Gen 9 using updated data from Serebii's national dex.
Issue Addressed:
I use a program I made to download data from Serebii’s national dex page to help the app search for the right pokémon, but the national dex page wasn’t update for gen 9 right away, so I had to make a temporary solution. The temporary solution unfortunately meant that the app wouldn’t tell you before you searched if the pokémon you searched for couldn’t be found. Now it does.
What is the app?
I made this app a while back for @servobreaker to make it to search for a pokémon’s Serebii page by generation for the purpose of nuzlockes or other pokémon runs. Using Serebii’s navigation or search feature results in a lot more reading and many more clicks to get to the exact generation page you want, as well as Serebii for some reason hardly appears on search engine results. This app makes it easy to search on your phone or windows desktop for the info by simply typing and pressing a button. Check it out if that sounds useful to you, it’s free.
Related: The app is up on my github (/ConnorCoxAGD) as well. You can see the code for the app itself as well as the program that downloads the Serebii data. The purpose of making this app for me was to about making Android apps from C# as well as learning how to scrape the web for specific data. If you’re interested in knowing how to do some of this stuff, or even adding to the silly little project, you can go look at the code. It’s very small scale and should be easy to read.
Some music for Ace Perinova, the space-flight game I’m working on, is available on Soundcloud. Only really two songs, mainly improvements over songs in my previous project. I’ve been iterating over this particular song for a while now. I think I’m done with it for a minute, but I find it very enjoyable to listen to. Give it a listen for yourself!
Our Hikers can be a bit mysterious. They don't have names (though we love hearing players' names for them), and we don't like giving them backstories that aren't discoverable in the game through conversation. Each Hiker definitely has their own personality, interests, and vibe though. We'd love to introduce them to you.
A good place to start would be with the first Hiker we modelled for Glitchhikers: The Spaces Between. They were an entirely new Hiker (not one of the 6 Original Hikers featured in First Drive). As you may glean from their kin list here, this Hiker has a love of the natural world and science, but one that they'd rather experience through a glowing monitor than in person.
Still, being so intimately connected to technology means that they are acutely aware of the pitfalls, problems, and outstanding questions that all of our technological advances leave us with. They'd love to get your take on it all, if you find them for a chat during commercial breaks.
If you'd like to see some early images of their design explained, check below the cut.
In their earlier design, we considered giving them a bit more of a volatile temper. In the original design, along with the yelling animation, this Hiker was to have an inner ring of rotating teeth that you would see when staring down their lens.
We'd hate to add to negative cyborg stereotypes though, so later iterations had more of a subtle kind of snark than rage-filled murderbot vibes.
As you've probably noticed, one of this Hiker's defining features is the retro TV that they have for a hand. They use this device in the ways most of us use our cellphones; to learn, to connect with people, to watch their nature documentaries, and as a multipurpose tool like a flashlight, a beacon, and a mirror.
Some more subtle features would be the comfy grey blanket they wrap around themselves over their PJ pants and black shirt. Their face is a camera lens.
As they were the first character that we generated a 3D model for, their design was where we really figured out the lowpoly style of Glitchhikers. Starting out with this very smooth plastic look, we decided on a need for more texture and geometric elements.
Along with the general environments of Glitchhikers: The Spaces Between, the characters were remade into this triangle-heavy geometric figures.
We also had some ways to go to figure out the final look of the glitching that occurs throughout the game. We wanted the atmosphere of the game to be chill and inviting, while still surreal and dreamlike. Some of the earlier attempts definitely fell on the "horror" or unsettling side of the line though.
Here is their Agender pride flag poster that we first tweeted out for Pride month 2022.
You can meet this Hiker on The Highway, The Path, or The Terminal. Keep your eyes peeled for the glowing screen of their hand.
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