Gridur's blog

Heya Folks!

For the first time ever I release a iteration of my very own game here at SoP! So it's a first time premiere right here and now!

Cthulhu Breaker is a pretty straight forward Breakout clone, takin' me back to the roots when I started out here at SoP and we were working on Time Breaker (then Spheroids).
I've worked on CB since I moved here to Gillhov, Jämtland about a month ago, feeling really good in my new place, and I think this is one of the reason that I've gotten this far with a project really.

This is as mentioned the first iteration of Cthulhu Breaker, I've not started putting in sound into it yet, and theres a lot of things that needs polish.
But all in all it's pretty playable at this stage! I'm pretty sure that there is a big pile of bugs hiding in it though, and I hope that the community can help out to report all problems encountered.

The game starts through Java Webstart, so all you need to do is to click on this link here: http://cthulhubreaker.fagertveit.com/cthulhubreaker.jnlp

And heres some Screens of the game!

Hope you'll enjoy it and I'm of to work on Iteration 2 right away! So more to come!

Menu Screen

Ingame Screen

Longtime since I posted anything here at SoP, been kinda busy with family matters for a while, but I have done a couple of small things for Hero, and soon I hope to create more content to this great upcoming rpg!
I read Johno's blog the other day, and in a article he wrote considering his project Swörd just made my fingers tickle for some Low-Poly modeling.
One thing I really must do is to learn about animation, rigging a model and make it alive for games in the future.
So I have started a mini project where I will design, model and animate a Low-Poly character.
I'm thinking about starting a forum thread where I can post updates on this project, some screens along the work-flow and maybe post some links to some good resource on the subject!

Anyway, I've done the initial concept design on the character I will work with, It's one of my favorite enemies from the all-time classic X-Com: Terror from the Deep! It's the almighty Deep One! (Yeah, I'm a crazy Lovecraft fan as well )
So for this blog post I'll give you the Deep One concept, updates will come on the forum, so be sure to check by!

Deep One: Deep One

The title can describe two happenings going on here at SoP.
First of, I'm back from the dead, the old SoP artist moi

A week ago I stumbled over a newspost on my favorite gamenews site (fragzone.se).
The news told that the team behind the anticipated title Bioshock had released a concept art book free to download on the site.
Being a big fan of gameart myself I just had to run over at once to grab me a copy.
There are two versions of the book avalible, a low-res and a high-res, more appropriate for printing.

I really like the design of this book, and the team has done a good work filling out the 60 pages of art.

Hi!

I've had my kids over the week while their mother have been on a thing called "The medeval Week".
I have'nt been able to work so much on PQ over these days, need to concentrate while doing that.
But I have been working alright.

Been going back to the roots and started working with some pure pixel graphics.
This have made me start on a small game project named "Night of the Hatchet".
This will be a oldschool sidescrolling shoot'em up with Zombies as the main foe.

I have made a couple of sprites at this moment, and started working on the tiles for the first map.

Just went through the first day with my new little work companion that I could purchase with some great help from the big boss =)
At this stage I have installed all the essentialls to accually start to work with the thing, that means the Wacom Tablet and Photoshop and the SVN client so that i can start working with the rep.

Going to test out the radius of my WLAN today, got my family livin about 100m from the router and I hope that I still can get a low signal from Marielles balcony.

Here follows some techfacts on the thing btw:

Semperon 3500+
1gb Ram (750mb workram)
120gb HD

Hi all!

Great to see the site updated, and it looks and feels really awesome! Great job Hobz!!!
I feel that I have been away from SoP lately, this might be because of family mathers or something concerning everyday life hehe, but I like to be a part of this so Im going to try better in the future to keep everybody updated on my work at present state.

So what do I do these days?