Lens has been submitted to the Independent Games Festival as of the end of October! This post comes a little late, but you can find our submission in the Student competition here and the main competition here, as well as take a look through all the other amazing looking entries. We’ve also put up a new […]
Yesterday we were excited and honored to find out that Lens has been selected as a finalist for the 2013 Unity Awards for the Best Student Project category. It’s awesome to be selected with so many other great games, both student and professional alike. You can checkout all the finalist over at https://unity3d.com/awards/2013/finalists. The awards show […]
Our adventure continues! Part I can be found here. Winter Quarter Finalization: So with a few ideas, we set forth designing a Lens. At this point our idea was of something roughly circular (which had gone over well in terms of visibility), floating, and could function as a HUD for the player. A few other […]
Hello, Alec here, talking about the visual progression of the Lens itself. The visual elements of the Lens sort of became a pet project of mine and I’ve been wanting to write this for a while. It got very long, so I’m breaking it into pieces. Fall Quarter: Prototyping and Greenlight The first iterations of […]
Hey everyone who reads this, Jason here! We are nearing the end of week one of our third sprint, and things are starting to come along nicely. The main push this sprint continues to be the temple, as it’s an asset heavy scene with lots of little things going on; like teaching players how to […]
Well, it has been another busy week in the world of Lens. Working on code, setting up puzzles, and overall being in high spirits. We had our fourth playtesting session this week and have been using all of our feedback to further improve our game. This week has been very productive for us, so allow […]
Art Production these past two weeks has primarily been focused on the Temple Area, which has been the focus of this first Spring sprint. A lot of this has been diverted to not only creating new assets, but updating our old ones (optimizing, (re)texturing, remaking). Moving forward, we’re going to be diverting more people to […]
Fresh off the spring break/ GDC train and we are ready to get back to Lens! As we move into beta, a lot of attention is being paid to the islands many sections. This particular sprints focus being the first area the player will explore “The Temple”. This section of the game has three purposes, […]
I’ve yet to write one of these, so let’s kick this off. I’m Alec Asperslag, my main function on the team is art coordination. My duties involve facilitating communication from our main team (the people enrolled in the course) with our artists (many of whom are off-site). To that end, I run art scrum meetings […]
Lens is a 3D first-person exploration/puzzle game. The game uses a two world design, which allows players to interact with each of these worlds, and use the differences between them to solve puzzles and overcome obstacles. Lens will take interactive storytelling to a new level by putting players in a first person perspective in a unique setting between parallel worlds. The story is told without any distinguishable voice, allowing players to discover the story in an insightful way.