Thursday, February 10, 2011

Senior Project Screenshots

Lately classes have been keeping me super busy, and as a result I haven't really had the time to post anything new in quite a while. But before another semester flies by without another post I thought I'd share some screenshots of our year-long group senior project that I've been working on.

The game is called Unchained, and it's a 3rd-person action adventure game where you play as the captain of an airship who has just inherited her father's shipping business. As you try to make shipping runs to further your profits and shipping empire, you are constantly confronted with challenges and obstacles: navigational challenges, airship system failures, and most of all, pirate attacks which you must fend off. The game is set in a steampunk-inspired world where airships have become the primary mode of travel.

A few of my responsibilities on the project (that you can actually see in the screenshots) are the 3D clouds with soft particles, silhouette outlining, and camera controls, although you can't really get a feel for the camera from just the screenshot. The silhouette outlining I already talked about in my previous post, and I'll talk about the cloud system with soft particles (along with code, of course!) when I finally have some spare time...which probably means it'll be awhile. =)