I Am Horse Game. · 4:15am Apr 1st, 2014
Most of you are probably unaware that I'm a game programmer. I'm in the third (second?) year of my Computer Science Bachelor's, hoping to get a coop at a game studio in another semester or two.
Game Website: http://horsegame.ca/
Alpha footage:
Follow on Twitter: @SprakleDev
I joined the team as a writer/graphics programmer. Game programming was already something I did quite a bit on the side in addition to writing, so hopefully this won't take away from how much I post/update on here. So far my main contributions have been a restructuring of the (still loosely) planned story, and rewriting the game's shaders to allow for transparent objects. Yesterday, I also wrote a pretty nifty shader we're we're planning to use for the magic auras.
The spaceship model has a lot of sharp edges and complex geometry making it really bad for toon shading, so expect something closer to the sphere.
Also, I'm getting an Oculus Rift DevKit 2 sometime in July. A friend of mine jokingly asked me to make a game where he could hold a virtual applejack, so I'm totally going to do it.
I'm pretty excited about the Rift and VR in general. I've been following its development closely, and a lot of what devs are discovering is that there's a shift towards atmospheric and exploration based games. Journey still stands out as possibly my favorite game of all time, and I'm a huge fan of Shadow of the Colossus and Dark Souls. If I had to be honest, the thing that excites me most about VR isn't the actual experience itself, but how it's going to shift designs. I've always loved the sense of wonderment environments can invoke and the stories they can tell of the past. I tried to invoke that sense of wonderment in Equestria from Dust, and I hope to invoke it again in the next multichapter I'm working on.
Oh gawd, the trolling!
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. You can download the pony game.
What do you mean, 'Why the trolling!
1971442 Because of the name-switching that all of the well-known users are doing.
Gah! Rated changed his name!
Okay, Rated. What gives? What made you change your name all of a sudden? Is this is because of that "You think you know me" thing you had going on? Because I see no point in changing your channel's look. You don't see me changing my username to Tepid Phantom just to give off a sense of illusion of my writing passion.
Hmm...
That's cool your a video game designer, i remember when i was younger that use to be one of my dreams. Keep going for it and hope you get recognized
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Whose Rated?
1972102 I think the bigger question is, why do YOU have his fan made literatures on your channel?
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I just like his stuff I guess