Overgrowth Rock Song by Jonathan Lewis
March 27th, 2010
This is a guest post from Jonathan Lewis. He is a talented musician and an accomplished satirical video game song-writer. His most well known piece is probably the Half-Life themed "G-Man's Last Breath" which was featured on Kotaku. However, today it is my pleasure to present to you an awesome original tune he put together for our very own ...
From temporary to final textures
March 25th, 2010
Following up my post on making temporary textures, this post explains how to make the final textures using your temporary textures as a guide. The first thing I did was place the bricks and stones to match up with the original temporary texture. This was really easy since I already had the texure in 3DS Max. After I finished that ...
Placeholder textures for refining layouts
March 22nd, 2010
If we want everything in the world to have a consistent level of detail, then we need a consistent texel resolution (the resolution of the texture image divided by the surface area of the model that it is wrapped around). Otherwise we get blurry objects which don't fit in with the detailed environment, or really detailed objects which make ...
Last call for Overgrowth orchestra
March 20th, 2010
This is a post from Mikko Tarmia, who composed all of the music for Overgrowth. As we mentioned earlier, we are recruiting musically-talented Overgrowth fans to play a special arrangement of the Overgrowth theme. So far we have over 80 volunteers, but we are still missing certain instrument players. We have plenty of piano/keyboard players and guitarists, but we ...
First pass cat head
March 11th, 2010
Back when we started Overgrowth, even before we had chosen a name, I had started on the test assets we would need in order to get gameplay working. This is the head I modeled for a cat character. This looks a bit strange with no fur on it We did (and still do) have a lot of fancy features planned ...
Overgrowth Soundtrack: Ambient 4
March 7th, 2010
We've uploaded another song to the Overgrowth Soundtrack playlist on YouTube. The songs are composed by the talented Mikko Tarmia and often feature Anton Riehl on the flute. Today it is my pleasure to introduce you to another beautiful ambient track. Be sure to enjoy it in HD. This track commences with predictably soothing tranquility. However, as my eye ...
Comic mega update!, pages 31-38
March 5th, 2010
This is a mega sized update for the Overgrowth comic. I did a bigger update this time for a couple reasons. Some of the past updates have been tricky, because I wasn't sure going in exactly how I would tell those parts of the story, but making this part was a lot faster because I had been thinking about ...