Development

This sprint the Gizmo was added to Edit mode to help people place, rotate and scale items in custom versions of Venues they create. Free Camera was also worked on. Lastly new Rock Samples were created and then added to the Sampler room.

This sprint was about adding a couple new features in the game that would appeal to musicians and DJs. The first feature added was a fully functional looper in the game to be able to build beats. The initial implementation of this was a “Looper Room” in the Oasis Studio Level. Basically, it is a…

This week we suspended the work on myMO for a few days to enter the Epic Games – Mega Jam. The Epic Mega Jam is an annual seven-day game jam organized by Epic Games that brings together artists, designers, and developers throughout the Unreal Ecosystem to foster creativity and provide an opportunity for individuals and…

This sprint has been looked forward to for a long time. To spend two weeks to mostly add visual effects and DJ Lights that you could control through the DJ Control Panel. The first of the new DJ Lights that were added were first the Light Towers that randomly turned lights on and off as…

This sprint was all about adding features to the RPM avatar in the game and then developing a usable pipeline for making custom RPM animations in Blender and remapping existing animations on other skeletons onto the RPM avatar and bringing them into the game. The first thing that was needed to be done was to…

This Sprint was the first one under Release 2 of my Music Oasis. Release 2 is meant to be released at some point as an Alpha release of the game to the general public. In order to do this, we first needed to make a Steam Store Page so that people could discover the game…

This sprint a number of features were finished off and tweaked after testing associated with getting ready for the Closed Alpha Launch of myMO on Steam. The list of features included: Began working on Game Level Control Settings by adding controls for Audio Channels Volume (Voice, Music, SFX & Master Volume): A new feature was…

This sprint was mostly about helping make the UI navigation more consistent for the game player. Splash Screens were added to all the places where the game used to appear to freeze while moving from entering, changing and leaving maps. There are now splash screens embedded to let players know that the game is processing…

This sprint centered around trying to add features and capabilities associated with the RPM Avatar that we use in myMO. The first major effort was associated with establishing a pipeline to take Poser based avatar animations and make them work for the RPM Avatar skeleton. We are doing this because we literally have thousands of…

This sprint was primarily adding some features in edit mode in the game along with a lot of building as I added a downtown level with a street dance. The main edit mode feature that was added was the ability for game players to be able to bring their own 3d models with textures into…