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Developing Avoyd, an abstract six degrees of freedom First Person Shooter voxel game.
Avoyd Editor Prototype
Doug Binks - 03 Feb 2017 - edited
Stealth Launch
We've just stealth launched the Avoyd Editor Prototype for download, along with a purchase button for Avoyd.
From now on we'll be releasing new versions of Avoyd periodically, increasing the price as we add functionality. If you activate a purchased license key for Avoyd you'll get all the future updates we post, along with access to the multiplayer services we'll be rolling out. However for quite some time our Avoyd releases will continue to be free.
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Black triangles and Peter Highspot
Juliette Foucaut - 02 Aug 2016 - edited 17 Nov 2016
Return of the black triangles: our friend, musician Peter Highspot, surprised us by producing original music and sound effects for the 2014 in-game fly-through. We couldn't resist sharing the video, and hope you enjoy it as much as we do!
Peter Highspot is a freelance artist available for music and video sound design. Check out Peter Highspot's portfolio and contact him peter@highspot.fr.
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Colour palettes and lighting
Rebecca Michalak - 26 Jul 2016
[Concept artist Rebecca Michalak explores colours and lighting for Avoyd.]
For the fourth round of concepts I wanted to explore palettes some more, since colour is an important part of Avoyd. This was my biggest challenge, being generally used to doing fairly monotone paintings and letting texture denote form.
I started by gathering a range of colour palettes from various sources (I have a library of about 5000 reference images saved to my computer for when I want to start a new painting or need inspiration) in order to have a starting off point. Working in a more abstract way was unfamiliar to me and difficult when I started the project, but I've found that as long as the basic tenants of any artwork are solid (values, colour schemes, composition) then you can push experimentation much easier and further.
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Concept art by Rebecca Michalak
Juliette Foucaut - 27 May 2016
We started working with artist Rebecca Michalak on concept art to help us figure out a general feel for Avoyd, as well as ideas for abstract shapes and colours we could implement in the game. Below is a series of the latest concepts drafts, as well as the preliminary sketches Rebecca drew, enjoy!
If you want to see more of Rebecca Michalak’s art, check out her portfolio!
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› 2017
› Avoyd Editor Prototype› 2016
› Black triangles and Peter Highspot› Colour palettes and lighting
› Concept art by Rebecca Michalak
› 2015
› Internals of a lightweight task scheduler› Implementing a lightweight task scheduler
› Feral Vector
› Normal generation in the pixel shader
› 2014
› Python Google App Engine debugging with PyCharm CE› Lighting voxel octrees and procedural texturing
› Patterns and spheres
› Python Google App Engine debugging with PyTools
› Interview
› Domain masking using Google App Engine
› Octree streaming - part 4
› Black triangles and nervous_testpilot
› Presskit for Google App Engine
› Octree streaming - part 3
› Octree streaming - part 2
› Octree streaming
› 2013
› LAN discovery with multiple adapters› Playing with material worlds
› Developer Diary archive
› Website redesign
› First Person Editor
› First Avoyd tech update video
› Implementing a static website in Google App Engine
› Multiplayer editing
› First screenshots
› Thoughts on gameplay modes
› Back in 1999
› 2002
› ECTS 2002› Avoyd Version 1.6.1 out
› Avoyd Version 1.6 out
› 2001
› Biting the bullet› Avoyd version 1.5 out
› Monday Mayhem
› Avoyd version 1.5 alpha 1 out
› Avoyd version 1.4 out
› ECTS 2001
› Fun with Greek letters
› Closer just a little closer
› Back already
› Artificial Humanity
› Products and promises
› Ecommerce
› Explosions galore
› Spring fixes
› Open source and ports to other operating systems
› Avoyd LAN Demo Version 1.1 is out
› Thanks for the support
› Avoyd LAN Demo Ready
› Game Tech
› Internals of a lightweight task scheduler› Implementing a lightweight task scheduler
› Normal generation in the pixel shader
› Lighting voxel octrees and procedural texturing
› Octree streaming - part 4
› Octree streaming - part 3
› Octree streaming - part 2
› Octree streaming
› LAN discovery with multiple adapters
› enkiTS
› Internals of a lightweight task scheduler› Implementing a lightweight task scheduler
› Web Tech
› Python Google App Engine debugging with PyCharm CE› Python Google App Engine debugging with PyTools
› Domain masking using Google App Engine
› Presskit for Google App Engine
› Implementing a static website in Google App Engine
› Avoyd
› Avoyd Editor Prototype› Black triangles and Peter Highspot
› Colour palettes and lighting
› Concept art by Rebecca Michalak
› Feral Vector
› Patterns and spheres
› Interview
› Black triangles and nervous_testpilot
› Playing with material worlds
› Website redesign
› First Person Editor
› First Avoyd tech update video
› Multiplayer editing
› First screenshots
› Thoughts on gameplay modes
› Back in 1999
› Avoyd 1999
› Developer Diary archive› Back in 1999
› ECTS 2002
› Avoyd Version 1.6.1 out
› Avoyd Version 1.6 out
› Biting the bullet
› Avoyd version 1.5 out
› Monday Mayhem
› Avoyd version 1.5 alpha 1 out
› Avoyd version 1.4 out
› ECTS 2001
› Fun with Greek letters
› Closer just a little closer
› Back already
› Artificial Humanity
› Products and promises
› Ecommerce
› Explosions galore
› Spring fixes
› Open source and ports to other operating systems
› Avoyd LAN Demo Version 1.1 is out
› Thanks for the support
› Avoyd LAN Demo Ready