Seed of Life

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• Weekly Update #40 - Bugfixes, again again
  August 07, 2022 by Akela Morse

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  I’ve been missing a couple of updates the previous weeks. The reason is I’m currently in the middle of getting people to test Seed of Life , and then fixing bugs and improving level design based o... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Update #39 - Bugfixes, again
  July 24, 2022 by Akela Morse#Weekly Update

  Just came back from a little trip to the capital, in time to work on more bugfixes for Seed of Life , especially related to the third cutscene of the game (codenamed Exposition). I realized after a fe... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Update #38 - A bunch of new features
  July 10, 2022 by Akela Morse#Weekly Update

  The productive weeks are back! This week I’ve been able to work on a bunch of new exciting features for Seed of Life , additionally to making progress in the creation of the second level. I’ve als... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Update #37 - Bye-bye Emerald Forest
  July 03, 2022 by Akela Morse#Weekly Update

  So I am finally done with my remaining tasks, and decided to move on to the next level. It does feel so refreshing to change environment and start working on new mechanics, and now I feel refueled and... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Update #36 - Spent two weeks making audio
  June 26, 2022 by Akela Morse#Weekly Update

  You know you’re nearing the end of a milestone when all of your updates become either bugfixing or crafting missing assets. Since the first level is virtually complete, all that really still needs t... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Update #35 - Spent the week making audio
  June 19, 2022 by Akela Morse

  Yep, it’s one of those weeks where I can’t really show anything, because I’ve been working exclusively on sound design and music. That being said, it has been a very productive week, because I w... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Update #34 - When inspiration does not show up
  June 12, 2022 by Akela Morse#Weekly Update

  The problem with disciplines related to art is that, sometimes, it’s hard to find inspiration. In this case I’m talking about music, and I usually never try to force myself to write if I don’t f... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Update #33 - Nearing the end (of the first level)
  June 05, 2022 by Akela Morse#Weekly Update

  I have now officially completed all the biggest and most important features for the first level, this boss fight being the last one. There’s still a couple small features that need to be implemented... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Update #32 - Big guy with a big gun
  May 29, 2022 by Akela Morse#Weekly Update

  Things are getting serious now, work on the first bossfight has started. I have been able to complete modelling, rigging, and texturing, so in the coming week I’ll be working on coding the actual fi... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Update #31 - Mixed bag of features
  May 22, 2022 by Akela Morse#Weekly Update

  Another very productive week for Seed of Life . There’s bugfixing, new features, new assets, lots of good stuff. And the most exciting news is, the first level is now 95% complete! Here’s the full... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Update #30 - More is more
  May 15, 2022 by Akela Morse#Weekly Update

  Hey folks, this is gonna be another music devlog. This week has been another particularly productive week, since I’ve written even more tracks that what I originally intended. Here’s the full list... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Update #29 - Storytime
  May 08, 2022 by Akela Morse#Weekly Update

  I said it before I’ll say it again, but cutscenes are easily the features that take me the most time to implement properly. This one, in particular, has a lot of unique animations and VFX, and is th... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Update #28 - Wrapping up Phae
  May 01, 2022 by Akela Morse#Weekly Update

  Slowly but surely getting things wrapped up for the Chinese-inspired town Phae . This week I’ve been working on adding all the required buildings to the town, and even began working on the inside on... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Update #27- More Phaerie shenanigans
  April 24, 2022 by Akela Morse#Weekly Update

  The city I’m currently working on, Phae , is now becoming more and more populated. This week, I have mostly dedicated my time in creating more textures and morphological differences for all the Phae... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Update #26 - Finally on Steam + Friendly arthropod
  April 17, 2022 by Akela Morse#Weekly Update

  Before I start with this update, I have something exciting to tell you: Seed of Life is now on Steam ! If you would like to support this project, I invite you to take a look and add the game to your w... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Update #25 - Cue circus music
  April 10, 2022 by Akela Morse#Weekly Update

  It’s refreshing to work on new environments for a little while. I have mostly dedicated this week to the design of the second Euzoan Cache level. Euzoan Caches are secret locations, that will be hid... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Update #24 - Far-east music
  April 03, 2022 by Akela Morse#Weekly Update

  Another music week for me, as I have mostly been working on the main theme of the Taoist-themed village, Phae . As always, I like to mix up different genres together, so get ready for traditional Chin... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Update #23 - Bugfixing frenzy
  March 27, 2022 by Akela Morse#Weekly Update

  Most of the time, I try to always do varied things every week. A little bit of modeling, a little bit of level design, a little bit of programming… Once in a while though, I’m so absorbed by what... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Update #22 - Exotic place
  March 20, 2022 by Akela Morse#Weekly Update

  This week I’ve been mostly working on the same subject, a city that takes heavy inspiration from ancient Taoist temples, named Phae (written on the entrance using an in-game language, Sfèr hasèr i... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Update #21 - Miscellaneous 2: Electric boogaloo
  March 13, 2022 by Akela Morse#Weekly Update

  I’ve started working on the next epic for Seed of Life now, “Phae”. The goal will be to conceptualize, design, model, and implement a village and its inhabitants. Should be fun. For the moment... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Update #20 - Expanding the bestiary
  March 06, 2022 by Akela Morse#Weekly Update

  Ah, love me some productive week. There is one thing I really like, and that’s really motivating, when working on Seed of Life . It’s starting off with a crude concept art, and taking it through a... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Update #19 - Game Over
  February 27, 2022 by Akela Morse#Weekly Update

  After having finalized my work on the fighting music, it seemed fitting that my next step would be working on the Game Over music, in order to have the full combo. For once, I decided to do something... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Update #18 - The sound of danger
  February 20, 2022 by Akela Morse#Weekly Update

  I might say that often, but it is always a pleasure to go back to writing tracks after a long time writing code (and making cutscenes, incidentally). Although, gotta admit, creativity is not always so... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Update #17 - The end of cutscene #4
  February 13, 2022 by Akela Morse#Weekly Update

  This will again be a very short update, for this week I’ve mostly been working on cutscene #4 again. I’ve finally completed it yesterday, and have playtested it a couple of times, so I think I’m... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Update #16 - Working on cutscenes, again
  February 06, 2022 by Akela Morse#Weekly Update

  Of all the different jobs that I need to do for Seed of Life , some at an amateur level (like 2D and 3D art) and others at a more professional level (music and programing), animation is probably the d... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Update #15 - Miscellaneous features and bugfixes
  January 30, 2022 by Akela Morse#Weekly Update

  This week has been particularly productive and diverse for Seed of Life . At the present time, I am mostly perfecting what has already been implemented, in order to make the game more stable before mo... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Update #14 - Designing a puzzle
  January 23, 2022 by Akela Morse#Weekly Update

  In Seed of Life , in-between phases of exploration and phases of action, you will also stumble across puzzles from time to time. They will often take the shape of a device, or a contraption, and you... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Update #13 - Small but important features
  January 16, 2022 by Akela Morse#Weekly Update

  As I’m working on Seed of Life , I find that a good way to maintain motivation and productivity, is to find good balance between the implementation of big, complex features that will take a couple o... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Update #12 - Mapmaking
  January 09, 2022 by Akela Morse#Weekly Update

  When you’re making a game centered around exploration, it’s primordial to have accurate and detailed maps. In order to create such maps for the areas you’ll be exploring in Seed of Life , I firs... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Update #11 - New year new bugfixes
  January 02, 2022 by Akela Morse#Weekly Update

  Happy new year everybody! Hope that 2022 will be better for all of us. And to get off to a good start, I’ve spent the week cleaning the backlog, and made fixes for quite a lot of bugs. Here’s the... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Update #10 - Colourful enemies
  December 26, 2021 by Akela Morse#Weekly Update

  First of all, merry Christmas everyone! This is the last update of the year, as 2021 is finally coming to a close, and it has been a very fruitful year for Seed of Life (pun intended). This week I’v... Continue reading

  
• Retro vs Modern: how does Seed of Life combine the two
  December 19, 2021 by Akela Morse#Designing Seed of Life

  You may have heard me talk about it, or you may have read it on the front page, but I often said that Seed of Life is a game intended to feel retro, while using modern technologies, and retaining toda... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Update #9 - Introducing a new character
  December 12, 2021 by Akela Morse#Weekly Update

  It would have taken me two weeks, but now I am finally done with the implementation of this new character. It started last week with a simple concept art, and it is now fully modeled, textured, and in... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Update #8 - From Concept Art to Retopology
  December 05, 2021 by Akela Morse#Weekly Update

  Creating characters from start to finish is a very long process, because a lot of different disciplines are involved. It takes even longer when you’re on your own obviously. This week, I have been w... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Update #7 - Back to tracks
  November 28, 2021 by Akela Morse#Weekly Update

  Making music is second nature to me, even outside video-games, thus it’s always a pleasure to get back working on Seed of Life ‘s soundtrack. This week I’ve been working on the three themes of t... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Update #6 - Spent the week torturing Hope
  November 21, 2021 by Akela Morse#Weekly Update

  Don’t worry, no wolves were harmed during the making of this update. So, in order to make fighting enemies more interesting, I have been working on the implementation of various status condition tha... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Update #5 - Treasure Hunting
  November 14, 2021 by Akela Morse#Weekly Update

  Ah, what’s a good ol’ 3D platformer without collectibles, right? Colloquially known as “collectathons”, the early 3D era was the breeding ground of those types of games, that would often invol... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Update #4 - Fighting against Unity's timeline
  November 07, 2021 by Akela Morse#Weekly Update

  Last week I said finishing cutscene #3 was gonna be quick and easy, well turns out I was wrong. Although I did finished working on it yesterday, it still took me a whole week in the end, mostly becaus... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Update #3 - Mocap is fun
  October 31, 2021 by Akela Morse#Weekly Update

  Because I was struggling with humanoid animations (for cutscenes mostly), I decided to invest in an Xbox kinect and other hardware in order to do some mocap. I received everything this week, and promp... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Update #2 - Menus, Icons, and waiting for delivery
  October 24, 2021 by Akela Morse#Weekly Update

  Whoever said that animating humanoids was easier than animating quadrupeds was wrong . Well at least in my case I guess, but I’m having a hard time dealing with Unity’s humanoid animations for cut... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Update #1 - Performance and Bugfixes
  October 17, 2021 by Akela Morse#Weekly Update

  This is my first weekly update. I’m gonna try to talk about the features and assets I create for Seed of Life once a week, to give you a glimpse of the progress I make. So, today’s update is mainl... Continue reading

  
• Making enemies that are engaging and fun to fight
  October 15, 2021 by Akela Morse#Designing Seed of Life

  When I’m creating enemies for Seed of Life , I’m not interested in only making goofy-looking robots that just stand in your way, which you can get rid off by simply spamming the attack button. In... Continue reading