So for the past 5 weeks, I have
been working on a game. I’ve been working with my classmates, so we are a total
of 11 people working on this game for our game engine implementation class.
This game is called Lycan(https://www.dropbox.com/s/wn2tbejoudwbx1u/Lycan.exe). Lycan is currently being built on the Unity game
engine. This is the first time I have been part of a team larger than 4 people
and that has made working on this game an interesting experience. So the way
the team got split up was 2 people on coding game play, 1 on AI, 1 on
networking, 1 on UI, 1 on audio, 2 as level designers, 2 animators and
modelers, and me on art. Everyone in the class is a programmer first, so it was
different for some of us to not work mainly in the code base.
As an
artist I mainly worked on textures. I actually worked on all the textures in
the game. I have some experience with using Photoshop, so I think I was the
best candidate to the job. The textures I worked on ranged from tileable
textures like wood and the dirt on the ground to the skybox the players see to
the texture on the Werewolf and the human player.
The textures
on the players were the most challenging textures to make. Mainly because I need
to UV the models. That was very time consuming because I wanted to get the UV just
right, in order to make my job of making the texture easier. I also I forgot
how to UV a model, so plenty of time of spent on learning from mistakes, but I
think I learned how to me a good UVer and I am comfortable doing that job.
In the
end I think I learned a lot on what it means to be in an artist when working on
a game. Being an artist is probably a different experience in industry from
what I experienced, but I think the principles are similar. Anyway, when I
communicate with an artist on my team in the future I’ll have an idea on how to
talk to him and know the artist’s point of view.
