At Mimicry, we think we’ve become quite comfortable with our playtesting routine. Our last playtesting day happened to be two days before the end of the Summer Internship, making it our “End of the Summer Internship Milestone” to work towards. Therefore, it comes at no surprise that our interns Pedro and José took a very …
This is the second and final post in a series that looks back at the Mimicry 2017 summer internships. You can read the 1st part right here. ### Mimicry 2017 Summer Internship Postmortem By José Vieira Goals My main goal with coming to Mimicry for this summer internship was to acquire some experience …
They say “all good things come to an end”, but do they? The Mimicry 2017 summer internship ended last Friday. For a period of 3 months, José Vieira and Pedro Oliveira have been part of the development team, pouring their hearts and souls into Ganbatte by learning, falling, getting up, socializing, playing, and above all; …
It’s time for another dev blog post! Today’s post is a particularly visual one! Besides updating you on what we’ve been doing this week, the main topic of this post is character skins, as part of the series about character design (last one for now!). The past week has been filled with a lot of …
Thanks for checking in on the development process of Ganbatte! This week’s post is a follow-up on the previous one, and it’s about character design! Ganbatte is a social VR game, and we want to give players the tools to express themselves and to show different emotions. This is of great significance to the players …
Today’s blog post is the first in a series about the character design for Ganbatte. We’re starting off explaining the design of the cat’s body and its shape. Developing a game for the Vive and the Rift places it own unique constraints on the project. In terms of trackable objects, we’re bound to 3 points: …
In this second development blog post we would like to give an update on our process of defining Ganbatte’s art style. We’ve looked at different styles that would best fit the theme of the game, as well as the skills and size of our team. We’re not ready to show the style in-game yet, so …
Hello and welcome to the Ganbatte development blog! At the start of this summer, we started working on a new project which we, until recently, internally called “sushi cats”. The game was born out the idea of making a VR game that combines some of our most favorite things: cats, sushi and space! Furthermore, we …