Blog for Saurav Mohapatra at GarageGames.com

Saturday Mar 27 5:48

Saurav Mohapatra — 2004-03-27T05:48:37+00:00

Finally had the courage to put up one of my short stories online....at http://mohaps.netfirms.com/samples/index.html. go to Writing Samples.The story is the first chapter of a Graphic Novel I am working on..titled "Wildman Chronicles". the Site also has my doodles and sketches... :)

Finally had the courage to put up one of my short stories online....at http://mohaps.netfirms.com/samples/index.html. go to Writing Samples.The story is the first chapter of a Graphic Novel I am working on..titled "Wildman Chronicles".

The Graphic Novel is one fo the alternate Prequel universes for our Game WITHIN.

I kind of tried to follow a "Style Over Substance" style for this story... the subject matter is hackeneyed beyond salvage..lone gunman in a post apocalyptic world..seeking revenge... :) but i tried to add a sense of film noire and stylized violence...

anyways comments are welcome....the Site also has my doodles and sketches... :)

Saturday Mar 20 20:38

Saurav Mohapatra — 2004-03-20T20:38:44+00:00

why we need a separate section for displaying GG shots..pretty much the way we have a GG .plan section and a developer .plan section

i had posted my dev snapshot which came online around 1.00 pm EST on March 19th.

suddenly at around 6:00 pm or so on the 19th..the dev snapshot section went crazy first my shot went to 22nd March and then went back to the orginal date...

and then it was replaced by the current snapshot. which is a pretty nice shot of the Shader Engine and much more deserving of the Dev Shot slot than mine...and was posted by rick overmann, a garagegames employee...

but my grouse is as per the "submission page"

Quote:

Each image will be displayed on the Make Games home page for about 24 hours and then archived in the gallery.

So it was kind of unsettling to me to see my shot get around 6 hrs max of time and then be replaced by a garagegames post. I thought long and hard about posting this... i even deleted a post i had made earlier complaining about this incident... in the "Feedback" section...

I decided that it was time to suggest an alternative...

I believe it shall be nice to have two sections on the Dev Snapshot pages one for General Member Postings and one for Garage Games Own postings... Pretty much the same way the .plans are...that way the queues need not interefere with each other....

The dev snapshot is a great way for an indie project to "advertise" ...in fact two of our team members joined up after they saw the earlier shots... It is invaluable for a small dev team like ours and It would be nice to get at least 24 hrs on the gallery shot of the day section to catch some interested eyes... and get the word out so to speak.

Sunday Feb 8 4:33

Saurav Mohapatra — 2004-02-08T04:33:08+00:00

First GG Dev Shot... C++ course going well at gameversity

Yipeeeeeeeee ... my first ever dev screenshot of the day at GG....

Also I have started teaching C++ at Wolfgang Engel's GameVErsity. Kind of liking teaching again....

Completed a full prequel storyline for WITHIN.... if WITHIN rocks my world.... I shall rock the world again with "the Wildman Chronicles" the prequel to WITHIN..

Tinkering around with the Tokamak Physics SDK these days too...

Monday Feb 2 7:59

Saurav Mohapatra — 2004-02-02T07:59:49+00:00

The first rushes for the WITHIN Levels are in. PlayStation2 Port progressing Well For our in house engine. Received Some more angel funding. Now looking to take on one more Developer. See my job post. The initial background score looks promising.

The first rushes for WITHIN Levels are in. PlayStation2 Port progressing Well For our in house engine. Received Some more angel funding. The initial background score looks promising.

Now looking to take on one more Developer. See my job post. Offering Ownership of company as remuneration. We got funding only to develop the game we are pretty much working against stock holdings... If anyone is interested apply for the job.

Friday Dec 19 14:30

Saurav Mohapatra — 2003-12-19T14:30:18+00:00

Incorporated ETVIG Interactive

so finally the big day is here... we incorporated ETVIG Interactive as a Massachussets LLC... finally I can go to Boston Post Mortem and wear a badge... :)

Monday Nov 17 22:06

Saurav Mohapatra — 2003-11-17T22:06:19+00:00

Managed To Secure Some Funding For Developing the initial prototype of WITHIN. Got the concept art and team in place. Still lacking one 3d modeller though. Hooked up with Jani Kajala of CATMOTHERfame. Now he is working on the WITHIN Team. We are now incorporating ETVIG Interactive and have started work on the first two levels for the Demo.

Managed To Secure Some Funding For Developing the initial prototype of WITHIN. Got the concept art and team in place. Still lacking one 3d modeller though. Hooked up with Jani Kajala of CATMOTHERfame. Now he is working on the WITHIN Team. We are now incorporating ETVIG Interactive and have started work on the first two levels for the Demo.

The websites are in a major mess..hope to get that sorted soon.

Wednesday Sep 10 12:54

Saurav Mohapatra — 2003-09-10T12:54:07+00:00

WITHIN First Phase implementation has started. The initial concept art has been uploaded to A Temporary Gallery. I shall be updating the site soon. We have started work on the major characters and the first level in terms of modeling and should be releasing somein engine screenshots soon. we have a new addition to the team. Alvaro F. Celis is helping us out with the weapon models...

WITHIN First Phase implementation has started. The initial concept art has been uploaded to A Temporary Gallery. I shall be updating the site soon. We have started work on the major characters and the first level in terms of modeling and should be releasing somein engine screenshots soon.

we have a new addition to the team. Alvaro F. Celis is helping us out with the weapon models...

Tuesday Aug 12 15:27

Saurav Mohapatra — 2003-08-12T15:27:51+00:00

I have more Game Ideas than I can work on. so I have decided to start a forum thread in which from time to time I shall be dumping wild game ideas i have , which might inspire someone to make a game.Watch this Thread

Mohaps' Brain Dump

I have more Game Ideas than I can work on. so I have decided to start a forum thread in which from time to time I shall be dumping wild game ideas i have , which might inspire someone to make a game.

You know it is a bit like giving your child away for adoption ... (sigh) ... but if it finds a better life..or a better home.... well then my purpose is served.....

Thursday Jul 10 15:58

Saurav Mohapatra — 2003-07-10T15:58:15+00:00

WITHIN - what you seek ... lies deep inside The game WITHIN takes place inside the mind of a person who has lost all memory of his previous life. he agrees to undergo an experiemental procedure called MemRes (Memory Restoration), which basically is a process of introspection aimed at reconnecting the memories to teh recall mechanism.

WITHIN - what you seek ... lies deep inside
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The game WITHIN takes place inside the mind of a person who has lost all memory of his previous life. he agrees to undergo an experiemental procedure called MemRes (Memory Restoration), which basically is a process of introspection aimed at reconnecting the memories to teh recall mechanism.

When the game starts the ego is met by a person called TS 12102 who tells him that he is his guide through out the process of memres... the idea of MemRes is for the ego to access various parts of his own subconscious and try to find what or who he is...

The game shall feature an extensive decision tree which decides which way the game is going... even the initial backstory shall seem suspect on a paraticular decision path....

the game is to be a third person action adventure..and shall feature missions basically split into a Rigt Brain Unit (basically levels featuring a gothic post industrial revolution lmechanical andscape) and a Left Brain Unit (a mystical tolkeniestic fanatsy land).

The catch is that when someone does not remember anything...dreams, nightmares memories seem indistinguishable from one another....
also when one delves this deep into the subconscious....one must fight one's demons within....