Ramping up production & Hack the ParkJuly 7, 2014
Man, the last 2 weeks have been busy with a lot of things that weren’t developing Fragments of Him. That’s finally coming to an end as we start to ramp up production.
Hack the Park: Dear Stranger
Last week, we participated in a game jam in our hometown (Breda) called Hack the Park. This was a one time event (although if anyone from the organisation is reading this, we wouldn’t mind doing a Hack the Park v2 next year!) set in Breda’s Chassé Park. 4 teams (consisting of an artist, designer & programmer) were invited to build an Augmented Reality app over the course of 72 hours. The theme was “Hidden Garden”.
Work area during Hack the Park
Once again, we teamed up with Mattia to create something amazing. Together, we developed Dear Stranger, an app where users can leave messages (in the form of a flower) in an augmented reality garden. We’ll be creating a video soon to show everything off, which probably works better than trying to explain it.
I can however share the end result: Team Sassybot & Mattia won!
Team SassyBot & Mattia take home the victory
The event was very well organised, the food was really awesome (shoutout to Ralph for that), the atmosphere was amazing and everyone had a good time. All in all, everything was awesome, if you want to get a photo impression of how those 72 hours were then you can find a photo album over here. After a week of stress and no progress on Fragments of Him, it was team to move forward.
Arber joins the team!
We’re putting a lot of effort into making Fragments of Him a great experience, and decided that we could use some extra manpower to keep up the progress. Arber will be joining the art team that now consists of:
Tino – Lead Artist
Arber – Environment art
Baiba – Character art (she wanted to stick around for a bit longer after her internship ended)
Corné – Environment art & shader vodoo
Frederik – Environment art (part-time)
We’ll be working as hard as we can to create an experience to remember.
Expanding the office, GaymerX, Casual Connect & more
With the team now growing to this size, we decided to expand our office as well. We used to share our office space with 2 other guys but they moved out in favour of more suitable office space. The timing couldn’t have been better, and so it meant that we took the opportunity to double our office space!
Next week, Mata will be flying over to San Francisco to attend GaymerX and Casual Connect. We will be showing off some of the new stuff that we’ve been working on. This includes characters made by Baiba and environments made by Frederick. Make sure to come by and say hi if you’re there!
As for now, we’re full speed ahead on making something awesome to show off at Gamescom in August, where Elwin and Tino will be showing more of the game. I’ll leave you with an image that depicts the last 2 weeks perfectly:
James Gooch losing his mind during Hack the Park