Peter Harries

It's been almost a year! Oops! So I'm going to do a series of posts about all the stuff that's happening at the moment and this is the first one! Game design stuff! Games, fuck yea! anyway, I've been trying to get a game project on the go again, based on the 1st person puzzler I was working on a year ago! With help from my housemates Ollie E (http://theenormousblogodile.blogspot.co.uk/) and Ollie L we've been redesigning the style, layout and general game with keeping the same mechanic. Here's a look at some whiteboxing screenshot and a  rough style screenshot. Early art style shot GOD RAYS! Spooky Fforest, hopefully we can keep this sort of feel on more final builds The area has changed from a swampy region to a more mountainous area, big drops instead of poison swamp. Overall shot of the whitebox, getting proportions and pacing nailed.

First post in a while! Been crazy busy recently, but with loads of interesting stuff!! So on March 10th 2011 I got the opportunity to visit blitz games in Leamington spa!! I thought I would do a write up of what it was like to give anyone else thinking of applying an idea of what to expect. (If you're thinking of going already, do it! it's well worth it!) I arrived in Leamington spa on the 9th and stayed overnight in Buckland Lodge , the hotel it self was a bit dated but overall it was ok. Run by a guy called John who seemed nice and it was cheaper than the travel lodge! Also got breakfast in the morning, always good :) Next day I was up at 7:30 got breakfast had a bath (no shower in my room! gutted!) and got up to Blitz just before 9. At which point I waited for Rhys (One of the programmers we worked with in the 2nd year, also from Newport uni). But Rhys managed to get himself lost so I just went inside and I was cold. Once I was inside we got directed through to a ...

So last Month I submitted my application to Blitz games to visit their studio as a 3D artist and I'm happy to say my application was accepted :D Blitz was founded in 1981 by the Oliver Twins (Creators of the Dizzy Egg series!!) and has been responsible for several games including the recent dead to rights. So I'm mega excited, this will be the first time I've had a chance to look around a commercial game development studio and get to meet the people who work there. Hopefully it will be a great chance to get a feel for what it's like to work in the games industry and make some useful contacts. ssooo I'll be off to Leamington Spa on March the 10th! wwwooo!