Mechanical Penguin:First model complete, first scene written out. Week 1

So as the title says, Moe finished the first model (picture below) in Maya and I have written a rough draft of the opening scene. I really wish I could do some more programming but I have to wait until I get home to do that.

I have a new work schedule that starts Monday which should allow us more time to work on the game which is so exciting! I'm also keeping a close lookout for the Mac SDK to come out. It'd be fun to port it to OS X when we're done.

Anyway, enjoy the picture!

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Mechanical Penguin: Cost analysis

Luckily, we already had the software needed for this project (or in my case, I was able to download Visual Studio 2010 from Dreamspark since I'm in college), but I was beginning to think of what it would have cost if we didn't.

Visual Studio 2010 Professional - $549
Auto Desk Maya-$3495 

Those two together already cost more than my car did. Thank God for being a student.



Previous Total: $25
Add food ~$25
Totally cost so far. ~$50


Hypothetical Cost: $4100 + ~30 combined man hours.

Mechanical Penguin: Day 1 is done

So, we're finally done with Day 1. I'm pretty impressed with our progress. Not much to show from coding since I'm sure you don't want to see the lines and lines of code changes, but I'm creating my first logical entity and the robot model is all but done. Now apparently Moe needs to do something he calls "weighting"... I have no idea what that is. Anyway, here's the picture of the practically finished model (the missing parts are easily mirrored with like 2 clicks of the mouse).

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Mechanical Penguin: It compiles! Day 1

After struggling with the "Source" source code. I finally convinced Half Life 2 to compile (I don't think the L4D2 Source is available so we're going to have to mod HL2)

Also, the first model is coming under way quite nicely.

Anyway... CHECK IT OUT!

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Mechanical Penguin: The Drawing Board Day 1

So today we started on the setting of our game and the character designs. We eventually settled on a futurist setting that will take place some where in desolate space. The basic plot starts out on a colony frigate that gets intercepted by a foreign something. This leads the frigate to crash on an uninhabited planet where our adventure begins. Here are some pictures of our work.

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Mechanical Penguin: A beginning

Titled: Steampunk Penguin
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Since playing my first video game, which I seemed to remember being Boogerman, I've always wanted to create my own game. It's what drove me to get into programming and computers. I've never really had an opportunity seeing as I'm not that good of a programmer and I never had anyone willing to do it with me.

Well, I decided that I've been waiting to long and I need to just grab this by the horns and fight. I'm getting together with one of my art buddies, he recently graduated from Full Sail, and we plan on hitting this head on.

First on our list to to do a mod. I think we've decided to do a mod with the source engine and hopefully utilize Left 4 Dead 2 as the base. I'm not so sure this is possible but we're going to try. I'm going to keep our ideas under wrap for the time being, but we should begin work on Wednesday.

Oh, we calling ourselves "Mechanical Penguin" maybe. The picture up top is an old design I asked him for a mousepad I was ordering. I'm also going to keep track of our expenses just for fun. Neither one of us plan on getting "paid" as we're going to use this mod as a platform for us, but I think it might be fun to see what the actual cost of making an indie mod is.

Total cost of the project so far: $25
This purchase included a Big Dry-Erase Board
, markers, and a binder.

For the Emperor... Penguin.

-Ryan

HTML5 server

So just for fun I decided to try my hand at HTML5 video streaming. I set up an apache server on my computer, found some sweet code, and done! It was really simple too. Go check out the link to see (streaming 720p Big Buck Bunny using ogg. You'll need firefox to view it)