Hello! This is my Game Development Log. My name is Nova Villanueva. I am working on the game, The Mills.
The Mills is a despair survival game set in a bleak, post-apocalyptic world. As The Engineer, the lone human among robots, you scavenge for resources. Each of the robots is unique – some are kind, some frightening, and some aggressive. As you try to stay alive, you must constantly make choices: will you focus on your survival alone, or help the robots who come across your path?
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Robot Sketches
I started by making quick silhouettes sketches using Photoshop. I kept the drawings rough at this stage. I had developed other parts of the world-building of the game, therefore I had an idea of what the Robots needed to look like.
Coming up with a level design for a narrative driven survival game was not an easy thing. A lot of Survival Games are know for their procedural generated open world layouts such as Minecraft and Don't Starve. Then we have games such as Long Dark who have a certain level design around a narrative p…
Hello! My Name is Nova Villanueva. I am the indie developer of the game, The Mills. Today I worked on integrating the cinematic animation for the intro of the game. I had embedded the intro animation for the teaser trailer within the actual game's scene. This was a horr…
