3D so far

My road to learn 3D is going fine. I only had one afternoon to follow Blenderguru's tutorial but it's coming along nicely. I know I don't need models this detailed but it's a really good way to learn the ropes.

Funny glow test

Final render

Meanwhile I'm thinking heavy on how the hospital walking parts and operating parts can come together into a cohesive game. I don't want to dream too big, I don't want to bite too big that I can't chew but I want this game be something different, yet something familiar.

Learning Blender

 Started learning Blender. I had some experience with 3D editors for our Second Life projects (making sculpty textures) but my knowledge was limited. I decided I want to know more. I don't aim for high quality images but more like a low-poly character models and world. You know, like in Persona 3. I don't wish to make them super detailed but I want to know the ins and outs of 3D modeling so I can make more efficient models. This guy knows the deal, his tutorials are really well made, easy to follow and full of usefull and interesting stuff:

Here's the full playlist of his tutorial:
Blender Beginner Tutorial Series

Setting Stone

Hi Dear Unknown Reader!

I'm here to start this journey/journal. I'm set out to make a game. A video game. A video game idea that was lingering in my mind for a couple of year. The earliest memories I can recall are from around 2010.

A friend introduced me Trauma Center, a video game series I adore to this day. It's crazy and serious at the same time. At first I was only a player but as time went on I started to play with the idea of a game similar to this. Yeah, I have played games like Dark Cut but Trauma Center was different.

As I was getting ready for my final exam at college I started to draw characters from the game to get the grasp what makes these characters work. Also, Valkyria Chronicles 2 was a huge influence in the way I imagined dialogues. I started to work on a rather simple operation game in Second Life. Yeah, you read that right. Second. Life. Of all the platforms available. This friend and I worked together to make a working video game in Second Life with success but developing games for it was time consuming and hard we managed to crank out 3 games for it while we were in college.

As adult life started with going to work, our free time significantly dropped. So I started this operation game in Second Life for our little system and we vowed to finish it for Christmas, 2012. We never did. But the idea was still there in my mind. I could never let it go. I bought professional book on the subject of Anime-Manga drawing, I bought and watched the whole series of House MD. I have all the games that was released in Europe in the Trauma Center series. I just can't let it go. Last year I started to play Persona 3 and my whole view on the project has changed.

I want to make a video game where you play as a young doctor, fighting against a huge medical threat. I want it to be somewhat a JRPG with character interaction, mystery, player choice with consequences. A living, believable hospital setting with a little twist on it. Also, I want the operations to be part of the gameplay as much as the investigation and hospital life. I'll need good music too :)