Searchlight Hotel

Devlog

• The Searchlight Hotel Postmortem
  July 24, 2023 by jdbautista

  The Searchlight Hotel project was a great learning experience because we had to create everything from scratch. I had the opportunity to enhance my modeling skills and work in Unity as well. This proj... Continue reading
• Art Implementation
  July 19, 2023 by AKrieps#design, #art, #style, #atmosphere, #mood

  Since our game is stylized we had to put a lot of care into how everything looked. I've already made a blog post as too how I made stylized assets for the game (See my How To on making stylized assets... Continue reading
• Audio Design
  July 18, 2023 by alexdb98

  Sound design can be one of the most important things for a game. It helps provide a different sense of realism in a game. For our game, we chose to make our sounds very aesthetic and atmospheric. We a... Continue reading
• State of the Game: Post Beta
  July 11, 2023 by crcherry

  Hello, my name is Connor Cherry, I am one of the programmers on the team and my job is to work on the gameplay programming specifically. This far the game is almost done and all the mechanics are in f... Continue reading
• Menu Art
  July 04, 2023 by rapardington

  Hello everyone! It's Ruby once again. This week, I'd like to tell you all about the menu art I created. Our team realized that the picture we were using for the menu, an image of one of the hotel wall... Continue reading

  
• How To: Level Design
  June 28, 2023 by tdgromow

  Hello everyone, Today I will be showing you my process for how I design a 3D level in Unity. What I first like to do is make a couple of drawing of what I want the basic design of the level to be base... Continue reading

  
• Art Concepts and Execution
  June 25, 2023 by jdbautista

  The art concept of our game is based on an abandoned hotel from the 1970's. I used reference images from hotels during the 1970's. I used these reference images to build the models while stylizing to... Continue reading

  
• How I make Stylized Assets
  June 19, 2023 by AKrieps#Rock, #Stone, #Stylized, #Blender, #Substance, #HowTo, #How To, #Tutorial

  Hey everyone, I'm Andrew Krieps. I'm the modular asset artist for the game. I'm here to talk about how I stylize my assets for the game. This guide is not for beginners to modeling, uving, or texturin... Continue reading

  
• Concept Art
  June 13, 2023 by rapardington

  Hello everyone! For my first dev blog post, I thought I'd give you a peek into the concept art I made while we were still solidifying the game. Directly after we were told the theme of the project was... Continue reading

  
• Level Design Overview
  June 05, 2023 by tdgromow

  Hello everyone, Our team is currently in the Alpha phase of development so I thought I would share what the design of our levels are going to be and what to expect in each level. Our game will start o... Continue reading
• How To: Class Inheritance Amongst Similar Objects
  June 04, 2023 by alexdb98

  Hello everyone! During development, I found myself working on objects such as doors and drawers that the player will be interacting with in game. There were many ways to do animations, sounds, and fin... Continue reading

  
• First Programming Mechanic Implemented
  May 27, 2023 by crcherry##FirstMechanic, ##SearchlightHotel

  Hello All, Just an update on the progress of the game. We are currently implementing the first mechanic besides the player movement. This mechanic is the ability to open doors, drawers, and collect ke... Continue reading