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Aero Rush is my Capstone Project that was made solely by me over the course of my final year at Auckland University of Technology.
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Jet through a retro stylised cyberpunk future at breakneck speeds in this arcade racing game.
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Scroll down to see my weekly development blogs that document the making of this amazing game.
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Capstone Project: Reflection
Overall I am very pleased with my final project 'Aero Rush' and proud of what I have accomplished in only a year. It was the brainchild...
Paddy Benson
Oct 10, 20242 min read
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Capstone Project: Week 22
This week I did final playtesting as well as presenting my pitch deck with gameplay alongside. These two events were super important as...
Paddy Benson
Oct 6, 20242 min read
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Capstone Project: Week 21
This week has been a lot of work on the project but not on the game itself. I spent a little bit of time adding more ambient sound...
Paddy Benson
Sep 29, 20243 min read
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Capstone Project: Week 20
This week my focus was on adding more polish to the NPC opponents. This started with fixing an issue where once their ghost replay...
Paddy Benson
Sep 22, 20243 min read
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Capstone Project: Week 19
This week also includes the mid semester breaks work and so and it will be longer. I've decided to continue on polishing and although...
Paddy Benson
Sep 14, 20244 min read
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Capstone Project: Week 18
This week I further worked on polishing the user feedback and overall feel of the game through both visual and audio cues. I first worked...
Paddy Benson
Aug 24, 20243 min read
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Capstone Project: Week 17
This week I focused on the new player experience and decided that I was going to make a tutorial level that simply explains to the player...
Paddy Benson
Aug 17, 20243 min read
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Capstone Project: Week 16
This week more playtesting went ahead within class and this was valuable as it allowed me to see if my fixes had worked as well as...
Paddy Benson
Aug 10, 20241 min read
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Capstone Project: Week 15
This week I worked on adding music into my game as that's both an integral part of video games and also for perfecting the ps2 era I am...
Paddy Benson
Aug 4, 20242 min read
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Capstone Project: Week 14
This week I worked further on polishing what I already have, so that my core gameplay loop is fun, bug free and satisfying, almost like a...
Paddy Benson
Jul 27, 20244 min read
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Capstone Project: Week 13
This will be a long post as this will also include all the work I have done over the break. During this time I have really been focusing...
Paddy Benson
Jul 14, 202412 min read
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Capstone Project: Week 12
This week I continued to work on getting the rest of the game mechanics polished so that I have a finalised game I can then expand on...
Paddy Benson
Jun 1, 20245 min read
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Capstone Project: Week 11
This week was another one of less work than usual due to submission dates coming up. However I did manage to go and complete the level...
Paddy Benson
May 25, 20242 min read
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Capstone Project: Week 10
This week I got less progress than normal done due to other subjects being quite content heavy. However I still managed to work a bit on...
Paddy Benson
May 18, 20241 min read
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Capstone Project: Week 9
This week I wanted to focus on the game feel, more specifically the HUD elements for the player. Up to the this point all the information...
Paddy Benson
May 11, 20244 min read
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Capstone Project: Week 8
During the break and first week back I was quite productive. The major thing I worked on was getting other racers onto the track for the...
Paddy Benson
May 4, 20246 min read
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Capstone Project: Week 7
This week was extremely productive. I worked on and completed many new things as well as solving issues that had been bugging at me for...
Paddy Benson
Apr 9, 20243 min read
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Capstone Project: Week 6
The first thing I did this week was go back to my first level as I realised it was still missing some pizzazz. The first thing I did was...
Paddy Benson
Apr 2, 20243 min read
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Capstone Project: Week 5
This week I attempted to implement an AI system for other racers on the track. I tried many variants in order to get these to work. My...
Paddy Benson
Mar 26, 20243 min read
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Capstone Project: Week 4
This week I had COVID and so progress slowed on the project for most of the week. However during this off time it allowed me to further...
Paddy Benson
Mar 20, 20241 min read
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