Vight Entertainment

I'm just a guy with a dream to become a gamedeveloper.

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Vight E - new 2017

So I know that I haven't been posting much, and I promised to show how my last project went. So let me be real for a second. That project sucked. It seriously did. I could have made something of it as the core gameplay was about 75% done. I could even create a new character with his own special abilities within seconds. But I wasn't having fun making it. It just felt like a chore and I saw that the game was getting effected by it. There's the reason why I never posted anything.

Let's talk about the future. I've partnered up with another guy from my school. He's way better than me at programming, so he will work on that while I work on everything else (and maybe some programming if he allows me). We also started a new project, a first-person platformer (with a twist if course). The prototype got done in a few hours and this is a project that really looks fun and interesting.

Anyways, just wanted to let everyone know that I'm still alive and working. Thank you to everyone who's still following me. As a tiny reward, before we have anything to show, here's an interesting gif.

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Game update #1

The movement is done and I've added some placeholder sprites and animation. O will post a video or gif later do day that'll show how far I've gotten. On a more personal note, I won't be able to work much the coming week. Next week will be an exam week.

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I just realized that they are actually the exact same. Tumblr posted my post twice and I'm too lazy to remove one.

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So now tumblr decided to upload my post. Tumblr, you're a douche... I Now have two posts that's almost exactly the same.

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The start

So I already wrote this once but tumblr said "nah.. I don't feel like posting it". In other words, I'm going to keep this short. They approved the idea and I will start working on it. "What's this new and incredible idea?" You say, to that I will say, it's an improved version of fire emblem. Now here's the problem, I've never played fire emblem. This kind if removes my point so let's just pretend that this is a new idea. Now you might be thinking something I'm the lines of "But Vight, you never finished your last project so why should I trust you now?". Good questing. Let me answer that very simple, my grades in school are depending on this. The project will at least have a prototype in 4 weeks(that's when the deadline is). What happens after that depends on how it turns out. Anyway, here's a gif of fire emblem because I need a reference:

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The start

So I already wrote this once but tumblr said "nah.. I don't feel like posting it". In other words, I'm going to keep this short. They approved the idea and I will start working on it. "What's this new and incredible idea?" You say, to that I will say, it's an improved version of fire emblem. Now here's the problem, I've never played fire emblem. This kind if removes my point so let's just pretend that this is a new idea. Now you might be thinking something I'm the lines of "But Vight, you never finished your last project so why should I trust you now?". Good questing. Let me answer that very simple, my grades in school are depending on this. The project will at least have a prototype in 4 weeks(that's when the deadline is). What happens after that depends on how it turns out. Anyway, here's a gif of fire emblem because I need a reference:

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Game development will start soon again. It will be a game for android made with Java and probably libgdx. My school has to accept the idea first so I won't say what it is (I don't want to raise any hopes). Hopefully we will get feedback on the idea today in a few hours. The class diagram is... Well it exists, let's just leave it at that.

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Tips from my Game Design Program Director

I’ve had a lecture with my program director who’s had experience in game design, VFX, and filmmaking, and a bunch more.

As I’m about to embark on my journey as a professional game designer (oooh!), I’ve begun to experience how it will be working in a AAA-style environment and in teams. Even if you’re an indie or hobbyist creator, keep these things in mind!

Your first attempt is always your worst attempt.

Make at least 3 backups of your work. Please.

When you have an idea, don’t go for what you want your final project to be. Always experiment. If you make what you want to make, it might not actually be what you expected it to be.

If you want to have a cool cinematc game, have a background in film and game design. If you’re good at something, make a game with it and you’ll be better at it. Combine your skills.

The more you do something, the better you will be at it. If you play games for 30 hours a week, you will get better at playing games. If you make games for 30 hours a week, you will get better at making games. You will get faster at it and more knowledgable.

If you design games, that means you are a game designer.

Hope these help ;)

-Rin

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Story time

This is a story about a cute kitten.

That kitten to be exact. It all started with that my mother got sick so I had to babysit my little sister. My mother has 3 cats and one dog. As they all have really embarrassing names, lets call them Jenna, Max and Sebastian(only named the cats). Jenna is Sebastian’s mother and we haven’t seen Max for over a week. Max was always weird about the new kitten. He rarely came home after Sebastian was born and he was always mean to him. So this Saturday my little sister and I was just watching some TV while Sebastian left with his mother to go outside (they do that some times.). After about an hour, only Jenna came home and she seemed really worried. Of course we got worried to so me, my little sister, Jenna and the dog went out to look for Sebastian. More than an hour had passed and there was no sight of Sebastian so we were thinking about giving up. Out of nowhere Max came.  We were happy to see that at least he was good. We looked for another half an hour but still no sight of Sebastian. It had already gotten dark so we gave up. We knew that a kitten can’t survive a cold night outside alone. We went home and didn’t say much. Max didn’t come home with us but that was nothing unusual. Sebastian had been outside for more than 10 hours so we lost all hope that he would come home. After about half an hour we heard Max at the door. This really came as a suprise as he haven’t been willing to come home for at least a week. We opened the door and in came Max, with Sebastian. We have no idea why he did it as Max still hates Sebastian. Maybe there’s still some love in him after all. The picture is taken at night after Sebastian came home so he’s fine.

On other news: I’m sorry i haven’t uploaded for a while. University is taking most of my time and I’ve been through a lot lately, both good and bad. I probably won’t post unity stuff anymore (sadly) as I’m learning C++ at the university, so I want to focus on that. But I was thinking, as I can’t post that much anymore, how about that I post these small stories while you wait on the next update? I don’t know how long the stories will last but it might be fun. If too many people don’t like it, then I’ll stop and go back to making gamedev/game related uploads.

OH another thing. If anyone is interested in completing the game that I was working on, please contact me so we can work together on it. There’s no time limit and I don’t have much time so it will mostly just be a fun thing to do by the side. In other words; there’s no pressure on you. If you want to try it out and then regret it, don’t worry about it, you can leave whenever you want and your name will still be in the credits. If you’re interested, please contact me here on Tumblr or at my gmail: [email protected] Now have a nice whatever you’re doing.

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It’s decided

I’m going to make my horror game. It just feels more right to do that. Tho there’s one big problem. The programming isn’t a problem as it will be a rather simple game (gameplay wise) but there’s one other  thing you need to make a good horror game, graphics. Yes I know that there’s horror games out there who don’t have good graphics. But in the game I’m making, I’ll at least need somewhat good graphics. Here’s the problem tho, I’ve never worked with modeling before. This will be really interesting. Anyways, during my testing of the code I took this picture:

Even tho it’s far from done, I think this screenshot looks pretty cool.

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The progress so far

I have the basics done, kind of. Mostly just jumping and shooting. As you probably know, the development is going pretty slow, but today something happened. I was trying to get my ideas on paper and realized how unoriginal the game was. Sure, it would be a lot of fun to play it if it becomes reality, but who would play it? That genre is kind of dead. Not because it's not fun anymore, but because there's so many of it. I don't think there's a single person reading this who haven't played a 2D shooter. But back to the subject. When I was writing down my ideas, something else came up in my head, a new game. Not just the basic idea of it, but an entire story and gameplay idea. It would be a psychological horror game that would focus on the sanity. Not like in amnesia, but more like a real life sanity. I want the player to feel the sanity in the game and... I can't say any more right now. I would love to, but if I decide to change the project, it will ruin the experience for you. To be honest, this project feels more like me. It's what I want to make and it's more like what vight Entertainment stands for. I want to give the player an experience and not just something that's fun for 10 min if you have a friend. I will be thinking this through and write down the ideas. Then I'll tell everyone what I'll do. (Here's a gif of a cute cat as a reward for reading through everything.)

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I finally got my laptop AND my money back from the other company. For anyone that’s curious, it’s a Toshiba Satellite P50 C 19T or something like that. I’m actually writing this on the new laptop. My drivers license is going good for anyone that’s curious about that. But that’s all for now. I’ll slowly start to work on the project again when I have the time.

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Reblog if you're a game developer

Whether you’re indie or AAA, for consoles or computer, I want to follow you and get to know you !

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The reason things are moving slowly

I know that I haven't been that active. The reason for that is that I'm not home that often anymore. The only way for me to work is on my computer at home. Now you might be thinking "but why don't you just buy a laptop?" And to that I'll say "I did. I bought 2 actually.". The only problem is that I have neither of them. I bought a laptop from a Swedish company called Ginza, that was 3 weeks ago. I never got the laptop or my money back, after being on their necks for the last 2 weeks it finally looks like I will at least get my money back next week. Now the second time I tried to buy it (from another website) it seems like it worked. We'll have to wait to see, but if I'm luck, I'll get it today. Otherwise I will have it on Monday. I'm really sorry for keeping you guys(or girls) waiting. As soon as I get my laptop I'll start working again.

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I'm still here

I'm sorry that I'm not that active. There's just a lot going on right now with family, money and pretty much everything. I'm trying to resolve these problems as soon as I can but it won't get done in a day. I just wanted everyone to know that I'm still here and I'm at least trying to work on the game. I know I said this about the summer as well, but I honestly think that I'll have more time to develop games when I start collage. But thank you for following the development(if you can call it that) of Vight Entertainment. I'll be back as soon as I have any news. (I promise, my next update will include some gamedev stuff.)

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The new project starts today

I’m sorry to say that the newgrounds version of Cyber Tanks will probably be down for good. I can’t fix the problems and no one has helped me (probably cause it’s a unity problem and not really code related). I’m sorry that is how it is. On good news tho, the new project will start today. I’m, going to write down a workplan today and probably a little tomorrow as it’s really late right now. But this was a short update I felt the need to do. Have a nice whatever you’re doing.

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For anyone that's curious, this is the problem. The top left and the middle picture is how it's supposed to be while the rest is when I've built it as WebGL. As you can see, I can't release it like that. That's the reason I don't just upload it as WebGL.