Spellcaster Studios | Make it happen…

Next week I’ll be at Gamescom, both showing Strikers Edge and shopping around for a publisher for Gateway…
In the last few weeks there’s hasn’t been much work on Gateway, except PR related stuff, since we’ve been very busy with other work.
Anyway, I’ve roped some more of the Fun Punch gang to help me with some elements on Gateway....

So the last week and a half, we’ve been working on the player character (still top-secret, shhhhh!), and on new weapon effects.
So, here’s the new beam cannon:
Besides adding some glow to it, we added a “burst” when it starts, which improves the “punch” of the weapon. This weapon both heals allies and damages enemies, which explains the fact it doesn’t look that aggressive....

I’ve worked a bit more on the new explosion effect.
So, as last week, we’re looking at one part of the effect at a time. We started with the flame part now:
I like the turbulence of this one, but it doesn’t fit, so we tried two approaches… One was using untextured quads:...

I’m writing this from our new office… We moved last Wednesday, and we’re still adjusting, but work has been progressing nicely on Gateway.
We’ve worked a bit more on the crystals:
This was the first version, but I thought it was too noisy… So our artist simplified it a bit:...