Dare to be Digital 2008 Team Blog
Team Caffeine: Plight of the Weedunks
Plight of the Weedunks is all about Platforming, Cooperation, Allergic Reactions and Biotechnology gone mad. On Planet XS the Corporation of Scientific Thought (COST) own the rights to science and innovation, with even the idea of competition outlawed. Their consumer products department enjoy a complete monopoly, with their cute Weedunk TM brand in every household. The status quo is guaranteed by COST's 'Needs Manipulation Department'- no one even thinks about their usefulness, let alone things more sinister.
And so, to the player characters! - Kohi & Grando! - two Weedunk TM products, an
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Speeding ahead!
23rd July 2008
We've been busy :)
Toothy is pretty much done now.. there's a screenshot attached which is very close to Neil's original concept drawing, so the mood of the level is set perfectly. We do st
play test
21st July 2008
Hi folks, We've had a busy weekend here at Team Caffeine, as we've been working hard to get the game ready for Mark Grindle's (story writing mentor) kids to play test. I will report backWe have a working level
21st July 2008
Yey we have our first level finished, it all works and the art is in for the final game :) now for the next few levels... video up soon! I promiseProgress & Promo Image
11th July 2008
Hi Folks! We've had another busy week with everything coming along nicely :) The lighting looks fantastic and seeing the boring grey box level coming to life in the hands of Neil and Dave is prettyUpdate from lachlan, at last
8th July 2008
Just a quick update since I'm not really keeping up to date with this, sorry. OK we've got in all the basic game play bits now many of the animations are in and the game is looking very fun. We're mo
Latest Comments
GO TO SLEEP NEIL <3
Neri says (9th August 2008)
lol, ok I know I'm kinda biased to you guys, but this is looking awesome. Loving the music in the trailer, and it all looks really pretty and shiny :)
smooth rotations
stuckie says (5th August 2008)
Hey Mava ;)
Yea it'd have been nice and all to have things like that working, but the animation system's caused a severe amount of problems for me the past few weeks, to the point that we're just u
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If you get time...
Mava says (5th August 2008)
You need to get your character to animate his rotation towards the direction he is moving. By the looks of it he just snaps there, try to use a quaternion and SLERP around to the way he should be faci
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Hmm
DragonXVI says (4th August 2008)
Sounding like a worrying combination between David Bowie and Weebl of Weebl and Bob fame :p
There's surely an award in there for that :)
I'll definatly been playing this at protoplay.
Yves says (31st July 2008)
Nice game, looks fun.
You got Owen singing that song now, you have any idea how hard it is to shut him up?!?!
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