This last week the game has really made some pretty dramatic changes! In addition to getting more of Michael’s graphic design work in place, we have lighting working on the characters now! This is actually a really taxing process for a platform like the iPhone (not the rendering so much as skinning something with normals). That’s why you see so many games with unlighted characters. However, thanks to the genius of Renaldas Zioma and the rest of the iPhone team over at Unity Technologies, we’ve gotten some massive engine performance increases. One of these is assembly-level skinning using the ARM’s VFP coprocessor. Anyway, I’ll stop ranting and just let you take a look at the screenshots!
Archive for June, 2009
More TKO Work
Friday, June 5th, 2009
Touch KO Gets a Facelift
Monday, June 1st, 2009We’re coming down the home stretch right now with Touch KO as well as with Crane Wars. Have you ever crunched on games? Not fun. Now try crunching on two games simultaneously. OK well me crunching on my two games at once is probably still not as bad as crunching on one game for E3 at a company like Sony or Activision (you guys know who you are and have my deepest sympathies).
Anyhow, we hooked up with Michael Heald, the awesome graphic designer who did the Blurst website, to have him take a pass at the graphic design elements in Touch KO. He has done a marvelous job and we have started getting some of his work into the game. Just a couple more weeks now and we should be ready to submit! Here are a couple of new shots to share!
