Dare to be Digital 2011 Team Blog
Furnace Games: Scorcher
We are Furnace Games, the University of Abertay team developing Scorcher. Scorcher is a Kinect multiplayer title where players battle in the skies as dragons. Steal gold, thwart your foe and teach the pesky villagers of Ignem Island a fiery lesson!
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Day Eleven
29th June 2011
Monday morning and we’ve hit our first milestone! Everyone is very happy to have the first few major features completely integrated into the game with some nice attention to the fiddly
Day Ten
26th June 2011
Hello, hello. Day ten has been and gone and saw another visit from external mentors, this time two senior programmers from Codemasters, Andrew Dennison and Mike Nimmo. They took a welcome int
Day Nine
24th June 2011
After a hectic day of rejigging the controls and combat, the coders spent most of today tweaking and testing the controls. Our dragon flight controls now have a great, natural feel and we're all fi
Day Eight
24th June 2011
Another Wednesday gone, another pile of work done. We had a visit from Kory Vandenberg of Blitz Games yesterday, which really put the cat among the pigeons. Currently our flying is a little clunky
Day Seven
24th June 2011
Hi, it’s Andy here just to give you a wee update on how things are progressing with the team. On the art side of things Russell put the finishing touches to his Sheep-a-pult as well as reweig
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