myblog | Arthur Audren de Kerdrel | Activity https://myblog.arts.ac.uk/members/aud17513219/activity/ Activity feed for Arthur Audren de Kerdrel. Mon, 11 May 2026 09:26:30 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-GB 30 hourly 2 cfa80d2f1585864f91cf5f9feece44d1 Arthur Audren de Kerdrel wrote a new post on the site We Make Stuff For Fun https://wemakestuffforfun.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=189 Thu, 25 Nov 2021 13:12:08 +0000 Critical Analysis

The Silent City is a game that I’ve always wanted to make. Originally, it was called Shadow Shard. The goal of making the game was to blend the 2D platforming and stealth of Mark of the Ninja […]

]]> 0 7a55af81c05fecdce73184c45d7a866a Arthur Audren de Kerdrel wrote a new post on the site We Make Stuff For Fun https://wemakestuffforfun.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=187 Thu, 25 Nov 2021 10:41:09 +0000 Last one, then critical analysis, wooh!I figured I would have to come around to case studies eventually, seeing as my previous logs were completely swamped with notes of my progress. These dev logs have more so […]

]]> 0 f011b344de7c92e475aa642bd182396a Arthur Audren de Kerdrel wrote a new post on the site We Make Stuff For Fun https://wemakestuffforfun.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=178 Thu, 25 Nov 2021 02:31:08 +0000 So, 4th and before last development diary. The base game is ‘complete’ so to speak. There is a beginning, a middle and an end. When you arrive at the door, you can press [E] to enter the Silent City, which really […]

]]> 0 de08a4c5cbd0312c7383046c545a8195 Arthur Audren de Kerdrel wrote a new post on the site We Make Stuff For Fun https://wemakestuffforfun.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=167 Mon, 22 Nov 2021 22:13:48 +0000 Its been a while since I’ve posted a development diary log, and well… I sort of need to seeing as its part of the process. A lot of things have been implemented since the last post (albeit shakily).

Amongst […]

]]> 0 89486c0aa5c7ee280c158b7178816284 Arthur Audren de Kerdrel commented on the post, Final Major Project, on the site We Make Stuff For Fun https://wemakestuffforfun.myblog.arts.ac.uk/2021/10/28/final-major-project/#comment-3 Wed, 03 Nov 2021 15:23:09 +0000 Note, they have been changed to red circles because of confusion.

]]> a322062f78e5317940bef9d95f34073d Arthur Audren de Kerdrel wrote a new post on the site We Make Stuff For Fun https://wemakestuffforfun.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=144 Thu, 28 Oct 2021 11:51:26 +0000 LEVEL DESIGN * Playtesting * The Silent City

Much of the past week has been drafting levels and dividing each room according to the 8 rules detailed previously, as well as implementing them into the game […]

]]> 0 057b5a8fe726da615bc2697e14833f42 Arthur Audren de Kerdrel wrote a new post on the site We Make Stuff For Fun https://wemakestuffforfun.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=140 Tue, 27 Jul 2021 16:56:19 +0000 Design Rules, Basic Level Design Drafts & Lists upon lists of stuff needed to make this blasted thing.

Originally, the game was meant to be called Shadow Shard, and was based as a stealth game inspired mostly […]

]]> 0 6be872ef0cc53a3b541bc520149e0998 Arthur Audren de Kerdrel wrote a new post on the site We Make Stuff For Fun https://wemakestuffforfun.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=138 Thu, 24 Jun 2021 10:27:18 +0000 Writing the essay.

This log will mostly be on writing the actual essay rather than further research, and how I would go about setting my time and such. The first thing I must admit was that I had forgotten I […]

]]> 0 fc3dde13885dc58c5254aa24dc42aa73 Arthur Audren de Kerdrel wrote a new post on the site We Make Stuff For Fun https://wemakestuffforfun.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=137 Thu, 24 Jun 2021 09:47:39 +0000 The Tricky Thing that is Immersion

Get it? He’s immersed.

Immersion has numerous definitions depending on the context in which it is placed. Commonly known as physically immersing someone or something in a […]

]]> 0 8cd76bdc355675b80ed18fa4fc66d296 Arthur Audren de Kerdrel wrote a new post on the site We Make Stuff For Fun https://wemakestuffforfun.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=134 Thu, 24 Jun 2021 07:13:55 +0000 Fanciful Titles and Greater Understanding

After more source hunting I eventually honed the question down to the following, with a fancy title on top: “Stealth Games: Shadows and Sounds, or ‘How do stealth […]

]]> 0 48ee1d8f2bf5bfbeb32b115b5995f7a9 Arthur Audren de Kerdrel wrote a new post on the site We Make Stuff For Fun https://wemakestuffforfun.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=133 Wed, 23 Jun 2021 23:41:53 +0000 Research Question & Source Hunting

Following a presentation with tutors, I came up with two questions that would possibly be useful for this unit:

How does « Mark of the Ninja » and « Thief: the Dark Proje […]

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I have a certain attachement to stealth games, from Metal Gear Solid 3, to Dishonored 2, much of my time in games has either been playing some overly complex roleplaying game […]

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I wouldn’t want to say this project was a failure, as things have been learned and properly executed. I have set out what I wished to do, which was to use Ink to create a text adventure. However, […]

]]> 0 1c425990c2a8962a434e0cdc08d51753 Arthur Audren de Kerdrel wrote a new post on the site We Make Stuff For Fun https://wemakestuffforfun.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=122 Sat, 12 Jun 2021 22:26:59 +0000 Implenting Ink into Unity proved more difficult than expected. I had plans to use tags within the Inky file to start events on the scene, however struggled to properly read said tags through code. These events […]

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]]> 0 e83857b92485545cbbf3933fce75971d Arthur Audren de Kerdrel wrote a new post on the site We Make Stuff For Fun https://wemakestuffforfun.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=105 Fri, 28 May 2021 13:37:18 +0000 I think I’m slowly getting the hang of it.

I’ve been getting used to Ink’s new scripting language, the way its vocabulary flows and how to link various “knots” or story points together. Put simply, Ink uses […]

]]> 0 453866d8cd35a8774bd9e48947ad0253 Arthur Audren de Kerdrel wrote a new post on the site We Make Stuff For Fun https://wemakestuffforfun.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=97 Thu, 29 Apr 2021 16:47:27 +0000 For Experimental Development, I’ll be looking into the Dialogue Systems mini brief, and exploring Inky for unity. I had already done some basic fiddling around, to see how it played out and followed through basic […]

]]> 0 4a54c3977d80298a55617f35638cd5e9 Arthur Audren de Kerdrel wrote a new post on the site We Make Stuff For Fun https://wemakestuffforfun.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=85 Thu, 15 Apr 2021 10:38:24 +0000 Case Study: Tricky Towers & Papers Please

To the left: Tricky Towers (Weird Beard, 2016); to the right: Papers, Please (L. Pope, 2013)

You may be asking yourself, “what do these two games have anything to d […]

]]> 0 608ba993616643999b659149b5737c9f Arthur Audren de Kerdrel wrote a new post on the site We Make Stuff For Fun https://wemakestuffforfun.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=79 Wed, 14 Apr 2021 21:33:30 +0000 Case Study: Using Iterative Design

I spoke previously of following an iterative design pattern in Development Blog n°2, but never truly delved deeply into it. For this log, I will be looking deeper into this […]

]]> 0 f7aedbe9652ca0896b4cfa997ac0d5b6 Arthur Audren de Kerdrel wrote a new post on the site We Make Stuff For Fun https://wemakestuffforfun.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=67 Wed, 14 Apr 2021 18:50:22 +0000 Development Updates:

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Game slots (activities) no longer spin infinitely after rotating them on a […]

]]> 0 2802cd9596aa7aa81dbd5b3ae141dde2 Arthur Audren de Kerdrel wrote a new post on the site We Make Stuff For Fun https://wemakestuffforfun.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=62 Tue, 13 Apr 2021 23:47:39 +0000 Development process has been rather quick, forcing myself to a tight schedule in order to meet the deadline. I have begun to work during the days, from 7am to 9pm, and then writing these development diaries […]

]]> 0 aa2fe18f251a27470d82c3680cf74dbe Arthur Audren de Kerdrel wrote a new post on the site We Make Stuff For Fun https://wemakestuffforfun.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=46 Tue, 13 Apr 2021 21:10:21 +0000 There is no point in beating around the bush, this was all done in 3 days, a massive time mismanagement issue on my behalf. Passing over the details, I was mistaken on the due date, and proceeded to rush this […]

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]]> 0 62b861265d114e64aa8ce429982c8de4 Arthur Audren de Kerdrel wrote a new post on the site We Make Stuff For Fun https://wemakestuffforfun.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=38 Wed, 13 Jan 2021 20:16:33 +0000 Final Post on this project, concluding many things. It’ll be quite short as I’ve the report next, and its mostly an update on rules and the game board.

Following the proposed changes to the map, these […]

]]> 0 83095c4c8af886f88ae10037490eb346 Arthur Audren de Kerdrel wrote a new post on the site We Make Stuff For Fun https://wemakestuffforfun.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=32 Wed, 13 Jan 2021 18:49:53 +0000 Going over the rules:Our two different set of rules were based around strategic deliberation, or quick thinking and anticipating movements. We’ll dub both versions the longer and shorter versions for the sake […]

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Thief a first person stealth game, focused on the […]

]]> 0 3972e8bb254799620c6726f7a5d1f25c Arthur Audren de Kerdrel wrote a new post on the site We Make Stuff For Fun https://wemakestuffforfun.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=28 Sun, 27 Dec 2020 15:50:57 +0000 Following another check up with David King, Jacky and I went over the rules once again to make its presentation clearer. Key words are now in bold, colours are specifically made to refer to certain types of […]

]]> 0 0362c0285b3a2d6ee7b04d4d5405794d Arthur Audren de Kerdrel wrote a new post on the site We Make Stuff For Fun https://wemakestuffforfun.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=23 Sun, 27 Dec 2020 15:18:51 +0000 Following some criticism and returns during our last presentation last week, Jacky decided to come up with a card back that communicated something instead of random lines. The original design was mistaken as […]

]]> 0 f78ed6b651da66ba3cfac0869c676973 Arthur Audren de Kerdrel wrote a new post on the site We Make Stuff For Fun https://wemakestuffforfun.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=22 Sun, 27 Dec 2020 11:24:10 +0000 Alrighty then. After the internal playtesting session we had on Monday, a few conclusions can be… well concluded. Also, Jacky came up with some sweet card designs.

They look amazing, and the card design is […]

]]> 0 187b5fba6eccaa6429c7cbb45462a5bb Arthur Audren de Kerdrel wrote a new post on the site We Make Stuff For Fun https://wemakestuffforfun.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=21 Sat, 19 Dec 2020 14:49:05 +0000 Well, that was stressful. After spending some time in vocal chat detailing the three concepts we had in for this brief. Through the use of quick slides describing the prototypes or ideas each student had in mind. […]

]]> 0 dcef6b39a242c708edbc4c52eb277af3 Arthur Audren de Kerdrel wrote a new post on the site We Make Stuff For Fun https://wemakestuffforfun.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=19 Thu, 17 Dec 2020 17:04:00 +0000 I partnered up with Jacky for this one; the 18 card game brief is likely one I looked the most forwards to. Development started immediately after the lecture, where we began brainstorming a bunch of different […]

]]> 0 8845ce890b5f924d67322092ea808fde Arthur Audren de Kerdrel wrote a new post on the site We Make Stuff For Fun https://wemakestuffforfun.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=17 Sun, 29 Nov 2020 17:18:15 +0000 The new map for Ghost vs Hunters, made by Valeria.

Using the original sketch posted in the last entry, Valeria made one of the coolest game boards I’ve seen made for someone. The board keeps much of the […]

]]> 0 04984c0b6ff8d66d535dd0d9ee927c06 Arthur Audren de Kerdrel wrote a new post on the site We Make Stuff For Fun https://wemakestuffforfun.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=12 Sun, 29 Nov 2020 14:55:17 +0000 ♦Second post. 13/11/2020, 10:53.♦

So evidently its been quite a while since I last posted on here. All this to say the conference project’s gone on smoothly. I’ll be clarifying a few things I left out in the […]

]]> 0 d513bb660fbddfb856ec226105168afa Arthur Audren de Kerdrel wrote a new post on the site We Make Stuff For Fun https://wemakestuffforfun.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=1 Thu, 29 Oct 2020 11:59:29 +0000 I didn’t know this existed in the first place, so I hope this goes well.
♦First post! 29/10/2020, 12:02.♦
Our assignment is to make a video conference based game, in 4 weeks, in a group. I’m currently with Tri […]

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