Abandoned Planet has the player taking control of the lone survivor of an unknown space catastrophe, she finds herself stranded on a planet and has to find a way to get herself rescued.

Play it here

Controls are:

WASD or Arrow Keys – movement
Mouse – Aim/Look
LeftMouse – Use device / drop carried item
RightMouse – Use Device Alternate
Mouse Wheel – Switch through Devices
E – pickup nearby item / drop carried item
F – Flash Light
1 – Drink Water
2 – Eat Food
3 – Find Hope

 Instructions

The ultimate plan is that players must figure things out for themselves, a walkthrough to the (simple, for the moment) completion will follow sometime soonish.

Things to consider 

The resource mechanic hasn’t been as fleshed out as I’d have liked, for instance hope is supposed to be far more intricate, I will be updating the game in future to make it more important.

The game has players controlling a customizable woodsprite that must guide Little Red Riding Hood to granny’s cottage in a hex-based sliding tile puzzler.

Go here here: http://retroepic.com/a-day-in-the-woods to see more screenshots, watch a gameplay trailer, download the demo and even purchase the game  (only $4.99, what are you waiting for! Feed the indies!).

All the 3D assets and a few animations were made in Blender, with textures painted primarily in Gimp with a few done in Photoshop.

More info, for the technically curious

My role in the process was Lead Programmer and tools guy. We used a custom-built Blender 2.5x on PC and Mac. Most of the addons available on this site were employed to a greater or lesser degree. Our texture artist made extensive use of Blender’s texture painting for our awesome textures and even some sculpting. The game runs on the Unity 3D engine.

Assets were exported to Unity 3D using my hacked FBX exporter that allows for true Y-Up export. My Unity 3D export pipeline was also used, which manages the rapid export of multiple assets from a single file, defined by groups with dupli-offsets. To speed exporting up each mesh was created in it’s own .blend file, then a a few larger library .blends were created that linked groups out of the individual files. The assets were then exported out of that single file, so that scales and rotations could be consistent.

Our trailer was sequenced in Blender too from fraps recorded in-game footage, despite a rocky start with converting absolute to relative paths and some issues with speed (I really need to learn how proxies work ) it all went pretty well.

If there are any more questions, drop me a line in the comments and I’ll make additions to this post.

Download it here: Wahooney UV Helper for 2.57

Enjoy!

Download it here: wahooney_uv_helper

Right now it requires two distinct steps to get the process going, I hope to have the process happen more discreetly in future, but as it stands the addon is very usable.

Feedback and stuff, please!

Enjoy!

As usual comments and crits welcome.

verlet test

Just add a Monkey into the above scene, don’t modify the monkey that’s already in the scene, that is the reference model. Enter the second monkey’s edit mode, press Space and type Verlet, hit enter. Move vertices around to see their effect (watch the video below).

Note, the above is released free for any and all use, if you use it for something cool feel free to drop my name.

Download here: wahooney_uv_normalize

Download here: wahooney_uv_normalize

This addon allows you to normalize your UV coordinates in Blender so that it fills the uv’s from 0.0 – 1.0, with additional controls for preserving aspect with X or Y, scaling the resulting uvs and positioning them and an optional border padding.

For a complete demonstration, from installation to execution check out the video:

Enjoy! Any constructive feedback will be appreciated.

For those of you looking for my scripts and plugins, my old website is available here: http://old.wahooney.net/

The entire site will eventually be ported over, so stay tuned.