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Happy Mari Monday everyone!
This past Friday our team presented the final playthrough of BloodSong: Call of the Siren! If you missed it, you can watch the recordings here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpEI77oweTI
Thank you all for supporting us throughout the development of our game. We plan to release to Steam in Fall, so stay alert for updates from us here!
It's almost time to rock and roll! Be sure to tune in to our capstone presentation tomorrow at 1pm to support our studio as we present Bloodsong: Call of the Siren (Coming to Steam in the Fall!)
Today’s team member spotlight is Sarah Phillips!
Sarah currently attends the Florida Interactive Entertainment Academy (FIEA) where she works as the Project Lead of Bloodsong, a pitch-matching dungeon crawler featuring death metal undersea sirens. Previously, Sarah attended the University of San Diego, obtaining a BA in Liberal Studies with a Concentration in Theatre, as well as her Multiple Subject Teaching Credential. She also holds a Single Subject Teaching Credential in English. After 7 years of teaching upper elementary and middle school in Los Angeles, she decided to pursue graduate study in game design. Her future goals include a career as a Narrative Designer or Story Lead within the interactive entertainment industry, as well as someday restoring a historical home. She loves going to the beach, cooking, and playing with her rescue kitten, Norbert.
Happy Mari Monday!
Today's Mari Monday features a sequencer edit created by our lighting artist, Hannah Martinez! The edit displays lighting and set dressing you'll see within BloodSong's gameplay.
Today’s team member spotlight is Lil Riggleman!
Lil is Lead Systems Designer for Bloodsong. She likes data-driven design, and is leading the playtesting efforts for TOTC. Before FIEA, Lil was a project manager for the U.S. intelligence community and a whiskey distiller. Eventually, she plans to become a Creative Director of a gaming company. Her personal interests include whiskey, basketball, and cosplay.
Happy Mari Monday!
Take a look at our newest enemy; a Siren Guard modeled and textured by Aimee Nilsson. She was created using our Mari model as a base to speed up production, and also uses the same skeleton for animation!
Today’s team member spotlight is Ashley Quebedeaux!
Ashley is a Technical Artist and Art Lead on Bloodsong. An experienced Technical Artist, she hopes to the enter the workforce in look development and shader development. Her personal interests include Dungeons and Dragons, Final Fantasy 14, and Illustration.
Check out her website here:
https://ashleyquebedeaux.com/
Happy Mari Monday!
Today we are showcasing a tool created by our art lead; Ashley Quebedeaux!
Our spline tool, created in Unreal Engine, is used by our level designers to quickly and efficiently build the stone walls and caverns you will see within our game.
You can check out more of Ashley's work here at https://ashleyquebedeaux.com/
The levels displayed in our photos were designed by Tim Ray and Mengqi Li.
Today’s team member spotlight is Adriano Diaz!
Adriano is a Technical Designer, and Lead Designer on Bloodsong. He works collaboratively across teams to create the project roadmap, game mechanics, and build the world of Bloodsong. Adriano's goal is to enter industry as a combat designer and one day become a Lead Designer at a AAA studio. His interest outside of games include food, travel, and scuba diving.
Happy Mari Monday!
Our team attended EA day at EA Tiburon this past Friday and had a great time meeting former FIEAN's and gamedevs!
Thank you for hosting us, EA!
Today’s team member spotlight is Nicole Barroso!
Nicole (Nicky) is a Producer at FIEA and works as a Development Director on Bloodsong. It is her hope to continue that line of work in industry. Her personal interests include endgame raiding in FFXIV and crocheting.
Happy Mari Monday!
Our team is quickly approaching Alpha and the release of our game, but we need your help!
If you'd like to name some of our shops in game, scan the QR code provided!
Our lighting updates are courtesy of our Lighting Artist Hannah Martinez.
Today’s team member spotlight is Hannah Martinez!
Hannah is a lighting and 3D artist at FIEA. She works on lighting and environment on Bloodsong and wants to break into the industry as a lighting artist. Her personal interests includes her dogs, Star Wars, and putting as many lights on her desk as aesthetically possible. She has also just received her M.S. in Visualization from Texas A&M.
If you want to check out more of her artwork, her ArtStation is: https://www.artstation.com/hmarti
Happy Mari Monday!
Today we would like to showcase some in-game poster designs created by our concept artist: Kayleigh Sims! These designs will be sprinkled throughout the game as set dressing as detailed below in some of our paint overs. Can you guess which classic rock bands these designs were inspired by?
Today’s team member spotlight is Amritha Immaneni!
Amritha is a Technical Artist with a love for scripting tools and creating VFX. She works on procedural tools, integration and VFX for Bloodsong. A future goal of hers is to leverage her previous experience with AI to automate pipelines. Outside of being a TA, she loves cats, sings and plays the guitar, and is never going to stop being addicted to Pokemon.
Check out her website at:
https://www.amrithaimmanenita.com/
Today's Mari Monday features a script for the asset retexture pipeline our team established in order to create consistent overall style for Bloodsong. This tool, created by Amritha Immaneni, batch exports assets into folders with Maya and Zbrush files and was made using the Unreal Python API.
Today’s team member spotlight is Austin Menard!
Austin is a producer at FIEA, however, on Bloodsong he works as a Motion Capture Technician and Animator. A future goal of his is to enter either the film or gaming industry as a Mocap Technician. His personal interests outside of gaming are playing soccer and experimenting with new recipes.
Happy Mari Monday!
Our Tools and VFX technical artist Amritha Immaneni has been working on our Nautilus VFX in Engine, accompanied by our final Nautilus animations by Marshall Fornataro-Minnig!
Today’s team member spotlight is Bailee Blaylock!
Bailee is on the technical art track at FIEA and is specializing in character/prop rigging. On Bloodsong, she works as the team’s designated character rigger, creating both control rigs and mocap skeletons. In addition to her rigging and animation pipeline responsibilities, she is the Social Media Manager and Content Curator for Three Owls in a Trench Coat Studios! One day, she would like to work as a Technical Director for a studio and eventually create a game entirely on her own to solidify her knowledge of game development. In her free time, Bailee enjoys reading fiction, playing simulation games, attending conventions, and watching her favorite animated tv shows.
Check out her artwork here: https://www.artstation.com/baileeablaylock
Happy Mari Monday!
Today's feature focuses on some environment concept art created by Kayleigh Sims, our teams designated concept artist.
Follow Kayleigh on Artstation to see more of her work here: https://www.artstation.com/kayleigh_sims
Today’s team member spotlight is Matthew Cummings!
Matthew is a software engineer, gameplay programmer, and tools programmer at FIEA. He works on implementing gameplay features and adapting Unreal Engine to team needs on Bloodsong. He aims to be a tools programmer in the industry, and also has interests in working with designers to realize designs in-engine. Eventually, he hopes to be a senior software technical architect. He has prior work experience at both Lockheed Martin and at Electronic Arts Tiburon, and uses that experience to augment his game programming technique with additional knowledge from other ends of the software industry. His personal interests include chess, board games, Magic the Gathering, hiking, disc golf, cooking, and trying new delicious foods.
For today's Mari Monday, we're showcasing our first pass Nautilus animations created by Marshall Fornataro - Minnig, a former FIEAN and our teams one and only key frame animator!
Our Nautilus was designed a bit differently from those you'd see in real life, his mouth is full of razor sharp teeth where his tenacles should be! Stay tuned for more animation and gameplay updates every Monday until release day.
Today’s team member spotlight is Logan Waltersdorff!
Logan is a Level Designer and Level artist on Bloodsong and hopes to enter into the workforce as a one or the other after graduation. A future goal of his is to become a fully-fledged Game Designer. His personal interests include gaming, cooking, fishing, model building, and mechanic work.
Happy Mari Monday!
Today we would like to showcase a tool created by one of our technical artists; Amritha Immaneni! This tool procedurally generates and places brain coral on the terrain directly inside of Unreal. The coral's design was inspired by brain coral and reaction diffusion.
Today’s team member spotlight is Kayleigh Baird-Sims!
Kayleigh is a Concept artist and 3D modeler at FIEA. She works as a concept and environment artist on Bloodsong and hopes to enter the workforce as a prop artist. A future goal of hers is to start her own web comic. Her personal interest includes crocheting, illustration, and video game art.
It’s Mari Monday once again, and today we are showcasing our current enemy models, sculpts and textures, all created by our very talented Character Artist, Aimee Nilsson!
Our Hermit Crab, Nautilus and Angler Fish enemies were sculpted in Nomad and Zbrush and retopologized in Autodesk Maya with rigging in mind.
Check out more of Aimee’s work on ArtStation: https://www.artstation.com/aimeenilsson
Today’s team member spotlight is Gregory (Greg) Allen!
Gregory is a dedicated programmer at FIEA. He works as a Gameplay Programmer on Bloodsong and hopes to enter into the workforce as a Gameplay Programmer. Some future goals of his include working on an indie monster catching game and landing a job at Sony Interactive Entertainment. His personal interests include working out, practicing yoga, and playing turn based RPG’s.
Do you enjoy dungeon crawlers and pitch matching games? Consider signing up to be a beta tester for Bloodsong! The data that we gather from your gameplay will greatly benefit our team and help us create a better game for release.
Sign up with the link below and have a happy Mari Monday!
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf7_9giY9rCABlKNrYUXmd0EfWTFIjQAKsO-a_EXGYamnYn_Q/viewform
Today’s team member spotlight is Mengqi Li!
Mengqi is a level and game designer at FIEA, and works as a game and level designer on Bloodsong. He designs and builds the whitebox and prototypes the gameplay for our first level! His personal interests such as gaming, esports, and anime demonstrate his passion for the game industry. He is a proactive and driven designer who consistently delivers high-quality work!
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Happy Mari Monday everyone! This past Friday our team presented the final playthrough of BloodSong: Call of the Siren! If you missed it, you can watch the recordings here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpEI77oweTI Thank you all for supporting us throughout the development of our game. We plan to release to Steam in Fall, so stay alert for updates from us here! #gamedev #gamedevelopment #art #design #programming #Production #indiegame #gametrailer
Happy Mari Monday! Today's Mari Monday features a sequencer edit created by our lighting artist, Hannah Martinez! The edit displays lighting and set dressing you'll see within BloodSong's gameplay. #lighting #gamedev #setdressing #leveldesign #art #levelart
Today's Mari Monday features a script for the asset retexture pipeline our team established in order to create consistent overall style for Bloodsong. This tool, created by Amritha Immaneni, batch exports assets into folders with Maya and Zbrush files and was made using the Unreal Python API. #maya #zbrush #tools #unrealengine5 #python #techart
Happy Mari Monday! Our Tools and VFX technical artist Amritha Immaneni has been working on our Nautilus VFX in Engine, accompanied by our final Nautilus animations by Marshall Fornataro-Minnig! #vfx #animation #unrealengine5 #gamedev
For today's Mari Monday, we're showcasing our first pass Nautilus animations created by Marshall Fornataro - Minnig, a former FIEAN and our teams one and only key frame animator! Our Nautilus was designed a bit differently from those you'd see in real life, his mouth is full of razor sharp teeth where his tenacles should be! Stay tuned for more animation and gameplay updates every Monday until release day. #keyframe #animation #animator #3dart #3danimation #3danimator
Happy Mari Monday! Today we would like to showcase a tool created by one of our technical artists; Amritha Immaneni! This tool procedurally generates and places brain coral on the terrain directly inside of Unreal. The coral's design was inspired by brain coral and reaction diffusion. #gamedev #techart #technicalart #gamedevtools #tools #art #braincoral #coral
Happy Mari Monday! Below are gifs of our first pass game mechanics and a first pass of mocap animation on our main character, Mari. Mari possesses the power of Sirens; she can call out to enemies to hear their bloodsong! Once she knows their bloodsong, she can defeat the enemy by singing the correct notes back at the enemy. #games #studentgame #underwater #gamedev #gamedesign
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