Playing Flutes for Overgrowth
August 9th, 2009
This is a guest blog post from Anton Riehl. He is an awesome musician and is responsible for enhancing the Overgrowth soundtrack with live flutes. When I first approached Mikko about helping with the music for Overgrowth, I asked myself, What can I add to this music to make it more complete? My first instinct was a technique we use ...
Armor Types in Overgrowth
August 5th, 2009
There are a few different styles of armor in Overgrowth, made from different materials. These materials affect how the armor works. For example, in the above image, the rabbit is taking a blow on a wooden buckler, causing the armor to splinter. It wouldn't take many hits to render the armor useless. There are two broad categories of armor ...
Overgrowth Soundtrack: Combat 2
August 2nd, 2009
As I mentioned in our previous music post, we've decided to start uploading Overgrowth music to our YouTube channel. The songs are composed by the talented Mikko Tarmia and often feature Anton Riehl on the flute. We tend to use ambient tracks a lot in our tech demos, so today I thought we should change it up a bit ...
Updating a classic space marine design
July 30th, 2009
Recently I have been really inspired by my friend, and sometimes co-worker, Jack Monahan's awesome game design blog, Design Reboot. I wanted a challenge and so I thought I would try something I figured would be impossible-- redesign (or "reboot") the Warhammer 40,000 (WH40K) Space Marine. This is a design that has been continually updated for over 20 ...
Overgrowth Wallpaper
July 22nd, 2009
Some of our fans have made some great Overgrowth wallpapers and Wolfire wallpapers. I thought it would be cool to make some Overgrowth wallpapers of my own but I wasn't really sure what to make. I looked at a lot of cool video game wallpapers online, and came up with some designs I liked. I have a really messy ...
Overgrowth Soundtrack on YouTube
July 17th, 2009
We've been getting a lot of positive comments about Overgrowth soundtrack songs we use in our tech demos. As many people know the songs are original works composed by the amazing Mikko Tarmia. Unfortunately we tend to only use portions of the songs in our videos and there's usually a crazy man talking or beatboxing on top of ...
Pine tree asset
July 16th, 2009
I made a new Pine tree today! We already discussed our modular tree system, but we didn't have any conifers yet. Here are some pictures of the new tree: The tree trunk uses the tiling technique I learned from those failed experiments I talked about last week, as well as a new trick: the bark texture is tiled twice ...