It's about professionalism in my opinion.

Hey Raygunners,

I'm excited to announce that the game has finally reached the feature complete stage. yaaaayyY!!

 

What does this mean?

Well, we're not done. But now we can focus on art, polish and bug fixes, and just generally improving the game as much as possible. Of course, we'll need some h…

Hello Space Cadets!

Time for a recap of work done on Raygun Gadabout for June.

NPCs and Baddies

Quamar Station is a location you visit, it’s a junky old ore processing station that has become a meeting point for shady alien folk. You can come here to recieve some bounty hunting missions.

Work in prog…

Hello Space Cadets,

Wow. Looking back at September it’s been a very busy month. Here we go!

New Boss Fight

Created a new boss fight with the goal of it being a way to test the player’s usage of the shield/reflection mechanic.

The mechanic is first tested on some simple puzzles and simple enemies that …

galactic denizens!

The month of October has come and gone, and busy one it was! Time for an update.

80-V1 Walker

Calcium enriched plasma beams, good for your bones.

Finished up the creation of a new enemy the fearsome 80-V1 Walkers. They have a fixed pattern and will fire where you were located when …

BlackDice said:
I would like to also have a destructible environment, friendly fire in case of missed shots

So I said missed shots were another matter. You'll notice that in XCom2, missed shots will cause environmental destruction (at least I would swear they do, it's been a while). No friendly fire,…

@dennisleon  Thanks for this! I went with approach #2, i.e. animation events, and that seems to work well.

Ive always Found Retargeting Mixamo Characters To Have Root Motion Compatable with them a hassle , until i Stumbled upon this tool. So decided to share it with the community

I have always found Retargeting Mixamo Characters To have Root Motion is a serious lengthy Tast, Recently I stumbled upon this tool which makes it pretty Easy , So deciding to share it with the community

If your animation system can transform visible objects attached to bones, it can transform hitboxes attached to the same bones: both are generic 3D geometry and probably authored together in the same 3D model editor. 
The difference, and the game engine dependence, comes in the next logical ste…

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This issue has a bunch of great shader posts, animation related posts, and lots more. Enjoy!

Grass System Extension : Cutting - Here’s the post that explains how to extend the grass system to add the much requested feature to cut grass. The …

Bluezone Corporation's 'Modern Cinematic Impact Sound Effects' is a sound library of innovative, powerful and pre-designed impacts for both fast and professional results. You couldn't be better equipped to design your next animations, blockbuster or trailer, as well as your intros and presentations…

Natalia Shuhman shares the Alconost Video Production department’s experience in game trailer and teaser production.

You may have heard that Alconost is a localization company, and we do indeed localize games into more than 70 languages. But we also create videos for games, and that is the subject of…

Bluezone releases 'Soundwave - Robot Sound Effects', a new sci-fi sound library providing a massive selection of impressive robot sounds created in 24 Bit / 96 kHz. From synthesized robot movements, complex mechanisms and transforming sounds to futuristic weapons and energy blasts, these Transforme…

'Steampunk Mechanical Sound Effects' from Bluezone Corporation is a collection of 158 carefully recorded and designed steampunk sound effects and complex mechanisms. Available in 24 bit / 96 kHz wav format, this sound library was created with carefully sampled sources ( Factory machine sounds, rust…