macy

TLDR: people in this industry are so kind and creative! grateful for all the attendees i met, for the great games they're building, and for my lovely team at bezi who sent me there to meet 'em 💖

also was able to chat with creatives about ✨bezi✨! it's awesome to be building a tool to help people to focus on the processes they love - to ease the tasks that 'must be done', in order to enable to those that are 'fun to do'.

i'm hugely thankful to have met so many badasses, established and up-and-coming! in the midst of an overwhelming week, the enthusiasm of the attendees built a comfortable, creative space. (shoutout to the thatgamecompany team, for curating calm in the midst of it all! ☺️)

(no 🍞breadroll🍞 last week because) first GDC in the books! it was SO AMAZING to share space with these passionate peeps. to meet people of vastly different interests, all with excited lenses focused on that mutual love of games - imo, an unmatched feeling!

a delayed vid featuring a mishmash of updates from last week:
🥯cleaned up jump and crouch movement to seamlessly transition (one bug left, but 99% solid!)
🍞day/night cycle
🥖experiments with painterly post-processing (shots to come!)
🥐some temp ui!
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back to unity this week to extend movement and start on some systems - specifically, added a jump with varying force, a crouch, and a preliminary 🥷stealth detection🥷 (feels like bakers would frown upon bread literally running off shelves, right?).

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this blog is a love letter to such flawless game genres as 'animals being menaces', 'characters too floppy to function', and 'how'd that guy get here' (aka peter griffin in fortnite and conan o'brien in death stranding)!
💕🪿💕

voilà, the results of maya therapy - spent the weekend studying, eating, and modeling/texturing some loaves in Maya and Procreate!
imagine these as responsive side characters, like a baguette that waves hello, or a smiley sourdough. dream or nightmare?
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this week i focused on cams, WASD motion, + some rolling - and found myself in the depths of ✨behavior debugging✨

anyone relate to the feeling of this should work, AND YET? the relief of finally squashing that bug?

hey, it works! Maya therapy time! 😮‍💨

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some work from yesterday! started on a minigame inspired by 'the bread' by gulu animation:

✨model, texture, + rig
✨basic animation + blendshapes (how does bread emote???)
✨movement tests - wasd vs. mouse + custom anim vs. mouse + procedural anim

so begins 🍞bread roll🍞!

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