http://balloonquest.at Just another WordPress site Mon, 30 Jul 2012 11:40:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://balloonquest.at/3rd-level-finished-extended-demoversion-downloadable/ http://balloonquest.at/3rd-level-finished-extended-demoversion-downloadable/#comments Sun, 15 Jul 2012 09:49:30 +0000 The Team http://balloonquest.at/?p=254 Have fun! ]]> http://balloonquest.at/3rd-level-finished-extended-demoversion-downloadable/feed/ 0 http://balloonquest.at/3rd-level-progress/ http://balloonquest.at/3rd-level-progress/#comments Sat, 30 Jun 2012 14:30:18 +0000 The Team http://balloonquest.at/?p=236
Regina ]]> http://balloonquest.at/3rd-level-progress/feed/ 0 http://balloonquest.at/it-is-done/ http://balloonquest.at/it-is-done/#comments Tue, 05 Jun 2012 17:21:11 +0000 The Team http://balloonquest.at/?p=167 We are very happy to share it with you. What can you expect? Two beautiful Levels with many unique sections, areas, enemies, speech output, stuff to collect and much more.
Download, play, have fun! And please feel free to give us feedback and get in touch with us at any time. We would be really happy to hear from you!

PeterP]]> http://balloonquest.at/it-is-done/feed/ 2 http://balloonquest.at/prototypes/ http://balloonquest.at/prototypes/#comments Tue, 05 Jun 2012 16:41:20 +0000 The Team http://balloonquest.at/?p=154 Analog paper prototyping is an important start and can at times get you a long way, but there is a point where you have to switch to digital prototypes to really learn more about your own gameplay idea. This might be the case even more with platformer games, that are more skill based than, for example, logic based puzzle games. Our programmers used unity for prototyping as well as for the final game. One of the definite strenghts of this engine is that you can very easily and quickly put something together that allows you to test basic ideas and features. For quite a long time we worked only with white cubes that we used to block out and test what we had scribbled in earlier phases. This approach helped us to test out the movement of our characters and allowed us to play around with things like moving speed and height, jumping distances, and other features. Besides the prototype of the gamemechanics, it was also very important for us to create a kind of visual prototype. As we were all Unity-newbies, we had to figure out what kind of light, textures, geometry resolution, etc. is possible with that engine. Our main goal here was not to define a final visual style, but to learn how to work with Unity as an artist.

PeterP]]> http://balloonquest.at/prototypes/feed/ 0 http://balloonquest.at/what-happend-so-far/ http://balloonquest.at/what-happend-so-far/#comments Wed, 30 May 2012 10:02:31 +0000 admin http://balloonquest.at/?p=51 Maybe in such an early phase of a project it’s more of a curse than a blessing to have all possibilities and no requirements. On the one hand it’s great to that you can do whatever you want and can imagine, on the other hands it can be quite difficult to narrow things down. We did a lot of brainstorming, wrote down a lot of random ideas, mixed them together, threw them away again and started anew. The initial idea for “The Balloon Quest” was a gameplay idea for a platformer that featured two characters – one moving horizontally and one vertically – and the combination of both of them. Although we decided to make a platformer game, the narrative part was also very important to us from the beginning on, as a good story and likable characters can support and enhance gameplay and generally emotional envolvement of the player. Nevertheless, settling on a story and even on definite characters was a whole other long proces… But that’s something we will get into more detail another time!

PeterP]]> http://balloonquest.at/what-happend-so-far/feed/ 0 http://balloonquest.at/hello-world/ http://balloonquest.at/hello-world/#comments Mon, 21 May 2012 09:07:02 +0000 admin http://balloonquest.at/?p=1 Have fun!

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