Blogs

Alex goes through his process when creating the menu for Rooftop Renegade and shares tips and advice for concepting and creating a menu for your next game.

A short breakdown on how George setup some of our new UI to nicely handle gamepad navigation.

Patrick gives a brief overview of how we aim for agile teamwork and minimise wasted content.

Alex talks the environment of the latest world, Rising Resort and the design choices to create a sci-fi paradise in the sky.

George talks through his journey of isolating and solving a game breaking bug that appeared before AVCon 2019.

Our Character Artist, Sam, provides a breakdown of the creation and evolution of the gunners in Rooftop Renegade.

Alex talks about how the Rooftop Renegade leaderboard system went from an in-office bragging right to a necessity at public play events and the challenges encountered with recording player times.

Today I thought I'd share the tale about how I found myself in the role of programmer for Melonhead Games.

The renegade Svetlana has gained a variety of temporal powers over development; Pat explains how & why these abilities were added.

Updating our favourite hover-bladed protagonist, Svet, has been a huge part of my work when I put on the character artist hat here at melonhead games.

Alex our environment artist talks about how the art style and production of Rooftop Renegade changed from a 48-hour game jam to its first public appearance and its eventual release.

Our blueprint-scripter George talks about how Rooftop Renegade's single player mode was developed from multiplayer to aid in developer-testing and the AI that was set to act as the other players' stand-in.

A brief look back at the leadup to our playtest event at Greenlight Comics on 30th March 2019.

It’s 2am in the dark of a parent’s loungeroom. AVCon 2016 opens in 6 hours, and a barely working game is compiling for deployment. Pat leans over the dark table, lit only by dim monitors, “Hey Frosty, let’s do this again but with a full game, we’ll be prepared now”. Sam takes a minute to process in his half-asleep state, “Yep, let’s find a team”.