Illumina in 2008

Hi Everyone, hope everyone had a great christmas and an even better new year :) .

I thought i would be best served putting up a final .blog for 2007 :)

Well its been a pretty up and down year, the birth of my new baby daughter being the big highlight and also one of the reasons not much has happened on the gaming front :).




But im looking to jump back into the fire so to speak. Our game Illumina has been on and off for many years.

It wasnt that long ago that a tge build was released to mixed reception. Since that time ive been tweaking gameplay and trying different engines in an effort to get something unique and fun :)

We finally have a new gameplay direction which i think will offer some excellent and fun gameplay in both online and offline modes. I wont go into it to much as you will see plenty more next year :)

In recent months ive been working with sean boyette from Fluid Images who has been doing some excellent mocap animations for our game. We are still refining them and tweaking them but they are coming together really well.

We put together a small teaser to showoff our models and generate some interest for the new year (be warned i did say a short teaser ) :)

Music was done by Blake Lowry and animations by sean. These are ingame models however rendered via maya, we dont want to show off too much ingame stuff just yet.

You can find the teaser at these locations

Youtube Illumina Teaser

Flash Illumina Teaser

WMV Illumina Teaser


Matt Vitelli has been working on hard on new tgea shaders for us to use and they should provide some excellent graphic updates and will be the core of our new gameplay direction.

On the mapping front Alan james and Arkolis have been stepping up and helping with a few maps and interiors (See below). Look forward to seeing much more of there work in the next few months.







As well as all of the above we have been tweaking our menus and controls. Below are 2 samples of what we hope will be the new menus and controls moving forward (keyboard and xbox controller support)





Anyway happy new year to everyone :) and i look forward to showing more of TGEA illumina next year. If your interested in helping out on the project send me an email :)