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,,,softfriends,,, release build -- 2017
,,,softfriends,,, is a textural adventure game focused on meditative close looking. Players control light deformations in the surface of a gentle landscape and connect them to progress. It suggests understanding space by feeling with eyes and joysticks for variations in the surface. Play for free at https://thnewlands.itch.io/softfriends
,,,softfriends,,, WIP - 2017
Some footage from a textural adventure game I’ve been developing that I plan to release in the near future. Players engage in a meditative spot the difference game discerning differences in varied surfaces.
Markmaker: Brush Update Demo - 2016
I updated Markmaker revising the drawing method and speeding up model saving and loading by a large factor. There are a number of other improvements including an added color picker, drop shadows, and better indications to where you’ll be drawing in space. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thnewlands.markmaker
A couple of nice plants for an upcoming game - 2017
We post occasional updates with inspirations over here: https://tinyterrarium.tumblr.com/ !
Unity Rim Pseudo Volumetric Shader - 2016
A set of shaders for Unity which use the rim of a surface to suggest depth. The rim is occluded using a texture or noise function to suggest that nothing was there prior. This package includes unlit, cutout, soft textured, textured shaders as examples for usage of this method. Because it uses the rim of a surface, the best behaving geometries are spherical or continuously round. This method is useful for rendering clouds, fur, or more general non-photorealistic effects. General rim shader https://github.com/thnewlands/rimvolume
Clouds shader https://github.com/thnewlands/rimvolume-clouds
Markmaker for Project Tango - 2016
Markmaker is an augmented reality application which enables users to draw in space or on top of surfaces using Google’s Project Tango. These drawings can later be exported as 3D models. Here’s an example of a drawing made in Markmaker: https://sketchfab.com/models/7eb27e28c8864b52a36ebeeb951849c9 If you have a Tango enabled device you can download the app here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thnewlands.markmaker&hl=en
Dustman (study) - 2016
Playable 3d animation study of Hitbox Team's Dustman from Dustforce. https://thnewlands.itch.io/dustman-study
Inflate (revisited) - 2016
Blow into your microphone and watch videogame characters fly away. Downloadable here on Mac, Windows, and Android: https://thnewlands.itch.io/inflate This version is based off an old work using a bicycle pump you can find here: http://thnewlands.com/indexpages/inflate/
HupHup - 2016
Made in 9 days for the first portland indie game squad summer slow jam of the summer with the theme “co-op” and “best friend best weapon.” Throw your friends up the mountain! Currently uses keyboard input, check the itch.io page here: https://thnewlands.itch.io/huphup Thanks to Max Luu for the character model, Will Bucknum for sound and Reis Mahnic for help on ideation.
reaching - 2016 ->
Reaching is a first-person, exploration-oriented videogame - what a disgruntled gamer might call a "walking simulator." You, the player, control a recent college graduate living in a flat in a three-story townhouse. You'll have unrivaled access to all the technological amenities of a twenty-something. You can watch TV, stare at computer monitors, or examine a fancy little tablet. There's plenty to see, as long as you're looking.
Code and animations by Peter Smyth, sound by Luke VanOene, 3d art by Thomas Newlands.
This iteration expands on a 48 hour work from Global Game Jam which is playable online here.
Call and Response (3/18/2016 iteration) - 2016 Added more expressive controls, tweaked sound and cleaned up wave logic! Call and Response is a game made in Unity for two players. One sends waves for the other to ride on top of. Together players form odd synthesized compositions. Best experienced with a pair of controllers and a friend. http://thnewlands.com/indexpages/callandresponse/ Thomas Newlands - 2016 http://www.thnewlands.com
Reaching - 2016 ->
reaching is a game about zooming through screens.
Run executable in MAC / Windows / Linux folders to launch the game.
Game made for Global Game Jam 2016 @ PETAL et al. in Chicago IL.http://globalgamejam.org/2016/jam-sites/petal-et-a...
Credits:
Peter Smyth - Code, 2d Art - http://peter-smyth.com/
Thomas Newlands - Code, 3d Art - http://thnewlands.com/
Luke van Oene - Sound / Music
Somniloquies - 2014-> This is a comprehensive (& growing) archive of things I've said in my sleep, as recorded by Sleep as Android, since November 11, 2014 at 10:33:31. All available under creative commons attribution for reuse / remix. More posted here: https://soundcloud.com/thnewlands/sets Entire archive available for download in one link here: http://thnewlands.com/indexpages/somniloquies/ Thomas Newlands - 2015 http://www.thnewlands.com
Call and Response (12/18/2015 iteration) - 2015 A game made in Unity for two players. One sends waves for the other to ride on top of. Together players form odd synthesized compositions. Best experienced with a pair of controllers and a friend. http://thnewlands.com/indexpages/callandresponse/ Thomas Newlands - 2015 http://www.thnewlands.com
Concrete Dream Engine - 2015
Concrete Dream Engine is a looping realtime application which presents of a series of Brutalist styled buildings in the idealized language of architectural rendering. Buildings in the work often reference actual counterparts, many of which have been demolished.
I developed this work by modelling structures first in 3dsMAX and rendering them in Unity. The complete work runs infinitely in a linear loop through each shot presented in the video documentation. Only cloud structures vary.
credits: b&w silhouettes via http://all-silhouettes.com/ light shafts script for unity via robertcupisz https://github.com/robertcupisz/LightShafts clouds made with Clouds Toy by Jocyf http://www.jocyf.com/utilsEnglih.html concrete textures by Sungwoo Lee https://gumroad.com/l/HEZvu additional textures found in Joost Vanhoutte's library of textures https://gumroad.com/l/800text https://gumroad.com/d/9e349db0e064aa9c21654910cfd6df3c
Thomas Newlands - 2015 http://www.thnewlands.com
Wavering Alpifier 2015
Depth values taken from Kinect are transformed into quiet trembling mountains. Made with processing using SimpleOpenNI and HE_Mesh libraries. Youtube video demo here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-izxlavDuXs More of my work here: http://thnewlands.com/
Hug Point, Oregon 45.831015, -123.962879 - 2015
A processing sketch uses SimpleOpenNI libraries to render kinect points in space. Points are placed in a scene composed of LIDAR scan data of Hug Point (along the Oregon Coast). Built off of Max Rheiner's example in the SimpleOpenNI libary: "SimpleOpenNI AlternativeViewpoint3d Test" and tai_pinc's code for loading points from xyz point clouds. Oregon LIDAR available through PSU's public collection. More of my work here: http://thnewlands.com/