Astral Clock Tower Studios

APRIL 21, 2021

Concept Art. As part of our demo overhaul, we recently welcomed a few new team members into our motley crew in order to help us better establish the dark-fantasy vibe we're going for—including the newest member to our Concept Art team, Harold. Curious about Harold's process for building out each concept's composition?

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

We're also giving you a special first look at some new environmental concepts and progress made to our newest WIP level area. With some incredible concepts from our art department as her guide, our 3D Character Designer, Bianca, has been working on modeling a few base armor sets for our three variants of Kota soldiers. Concept Art.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MAY 14, 2020

After fiddling around and running some tests, Will was able to make it so that the character can effectively roll through various environmental objects - like the barrels shown in the clip below - to destroy them. Here's a recent track Adeel put together for our demo, backed by some awesome gameplay clips Allie recorded and pieced together.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

As a general concept teleportation technology exists in quite a few varieties throughout the world of Cogmind, though the player only has access to some of them. In fact I have two new concepts for teleportation tech, which is kinda funny because of how they evolved out of the same idea.

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Awesome Tuts

DECEMBER 10, 2022

Here we follow the single responsibility principle where we created the audio manager and gave it only one responsibility which is to play the audio clip that we pass to its PlaySound function. The audio clips are going to be in other classes such as Player, Enemy, Coin, and so on. That’s it.

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Game Designing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Tracking motion can be added to titles, video clips, images, or even an effect (like blur, mosaic, or spotlight). The concept was first used by old-school cartoonists, and to this day, it is used in modern video editing software. You can put any object that needs to be tracked and adjust it accordingly.

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Keith Burgun

APRIL 10, 2023

This concept of “secret” doesn’t really make sense in a strategy game, contest, or a puzzle. Before I get started, I should make it clear which context it is that I’m talking about: single player, somewhat narrative driven videogames, like RPGs or adventure games.

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The Liquid Fire

APRIL 11, 2024

2)) var dir:Directions.Dirs = Directions.GetDirection(unit.tile, tile) unit.Place(tile) #Fly high enough not to clip through any ground tiles var y:float = Tile.stepHeight * 10 var duration:float = y * 0.25 2) + pow(tile.pos.y - unit.tile.pos.y, var tween = create_tween() tween.tween_property( jumper, "position", Vector3(0, y, 0), duration ).set_trans(Tween.TRANS_QUAD).set_ease(Tween.EASE_IN_OUT)

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

AUGUST 5, 2020

Although we've tasked our newest concept artist and character modeler, Pete, with trying his hand at the textures for our main Anagativan characters (which you can see later on in this issue), Shelly spent the first half of this sprint finishing up her own textures. In the clips below, you can see the Dodge issues in action.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Part of this initiative includes refining the player character's model so that it closely matches the incredible concept art l_aciel has created for our Anagativan beings. Although Pete joined our team as a second Concept Artist (and is damn good at it too), he's proven to be an equally talented Character Modeler. Concept Art.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MARCH 20, 2021

In today's issue, we're servin' up some serious updates on a few large-scale, ongoing 3D models and concept pieces. Using a few detailed concepts from our art department, our 3D Character Designer, Bianca, has been working the past few sprints on modeling out each of our three Kota soldier variants and their accompanying armor sets.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Concept Art. Now that our concept art team has nearly completed the designs for all existing assets and items in the Kristala build that needed to be replaced with fresh assets, they're now able to move on to creating brand new items that don't yet have 3D counterparts. 3D Modeling.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Here's how it works: each month, we share all the progress every branch of development has made as they collectively work towards completing Kristala's vertical slice—from stunning concept art and 3D models to custom animations, level design, and everything in between. Concept Art. These pieces will vary in both shape and strength.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MARCH 23, 2022

We’ll be sharing some clips from David’s recording sesh for Hiratrola—plus many more making-the-trailer goodies—over on the Kristala Patreon hub , so join us over there if you’d like to snag some exclusive Kristala content you definitely won’t find anywhere else. Concept Art. Staff Parry Icon. Riposte Icon. Stay tuned!

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JULY 6, 2020

Concept Art. Pete not only possesses a wealth of talent and experience when it comes to concept art, but he's also an incredibly skilled character modeler and rigger too. As Pete's first official task for Kristala, we had him work on revising the concept art for a very important NPC, Gustav Gondasa.

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Tom Francis

JANUARY 5, 2017

These are all suspiciously recent so this is probably only the best three moments of the last few months, but that does at least mean I could get clips. Until they’re taken down. I put them on Streamable in the hope they’ll stay up longer, which has the side-effect that they loop when they’re done. Shrug emojii.

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Grid Sage Games

OCTOBER 2, 2022

This screenshot is from a recent run of mine plowing through Armory with a treaded exoskeleton moving at a good clip (84!) This reflects the concept that all such parts are interconnected with the Scrap Engine and other constructs. Hm, fast and tanky?! due to being boosted with a bunch of combat hover units. Construct Naming.

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The Liquid Fire

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

” – Steve Jobs Overview In this lesson, we will handle the concepts of Life and Death. Combat Result System Now that we have the concept of hit points and a dying status, we have everything we need to determine when a combat has been concluded. Summary In this lesson we focused on the concept of Health. Did you win?

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Content was added at a constant clip: new weapons, new rule-based modes and maps were dropped every month, and new modes came in every quarter with major content beats during Chinese New Year and in the summer (when engagement peaks). There was no concept of events or free/ earnable content.

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Game Industry News

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The episode ends with a clip of the lower decks on a Borg cube; the drones remain in their regenerative alcoves. The concept of promotion by assassination in Klingon culture comes to us not from the Chronicles of Riddick but rather “ A Matter of Honor.” Star Trek tends to prioritize humans and human-stories.

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Filmustage

JANUARY 15, 2025

Current State of AI in Video Production From now on, it's safe to say that AI isn't just a concept or a buzzword that people throw around to sound smart or trendy. We have AI for visual effects, automated clipping, smart video creation the list can keep going.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

As in Skyrim, my animations are charmingly janky, with penises occasionally clipping through eyes and noses, or even through the back of the skull entirely. Violence is usually the first thing to prototype in an action game, but here it surprised me how much work it took to hack violence into an existing system that had no concept of it.

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