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Glow Weblog Archive

This page lists all images ever published in the original developers weblog for version 1.666 of the »Black Chronos« game »Glow«. I compiled this list in 2016 and decided to release all images shown here under CC-BY-SA. The author you should credit is the game developer studio »Black Chronos«.

2011

Fullscreen blood gore splatter effect Changelog 27. Juni 2011 (2011-06-28)
This screenshot shows the fullscreen splatter effect that appears for a brief second when the player character Stevie Speed is hurt. I changed the effect here so it now covers the edges of the screen instead of the center.

Test level Bilder aus dem Testlabor (2011-02-01)
Demoing some new art assets and tiles in a very small test level.

Test level

Tileset test Changelog 4. Januar 2011 (2011-01-05)

2010

Glow level 6/2 Der Reiz an Glow (2010-12-12)
Demoing some new art assets in-game.

Glow level 6/3

Metal test Metall-Test (2010-12-12)
Demoing a new metal tile set.

Skull Viele kleine Baustellen (2010-12-08)

Glow Swarm Maker Glow Swarm Maker Tutorial (2010-10-11)

Glow Swarm Maker example

Zombie artwork Zombie (2010-07-22)

Flash spell pixel mask Die Innereien des Blitzzaubers (2010-05-20)
I fixed the pixel mask of the thunderbolt magic spell. Before the yellow area was able to hurt enemies, and often kill them in one hit. Now only the red area hurts.

2009

Mega screenshot level 6/3 Level-Panorama (2009-12-31)
I used a custom render pipeline and ImageMagick to compile a 50 megapixel screenshot of the largest level in the demo. The version you can download here is downscaled to 50 %, resulting in 5120 × 2560 pixels in 2.3 MB.

Preview December 2009 Glow Preview released (2009-12-21)

Screenshot for Developia

Direct 3D Glow 3D (2009-11-20)
I played around with the perspective in our Direct3D engine.

Intro Lehren (2009-11-16)
Text appears when reading a sign. Here I'm using this feature to turn our demo playbacks into actual tutorials.

Slopes in debug mode Blick ins Changelog (2009-11-08)
Collision (white), attack (red) as well as optical (blue) and acoustical (green) visibility ranges of our enemies, as shown in the editor.

Event trigger links Einführung ins Triggersystem (2009-10-13)
When Stevie hits an (invisible) radius trigger, an enemy will spawn right behind him.

Fireball in 2006 Feuer unterm Hintern (2009-08-25)
Comparison of the fireball effect in 2006 and 2009.

Fireball in 2009

Red stones Löwenfütterung (2009-06-28)
Demoing new slopes for the red stones tile set.

Your goal Dein Ziel (2009-06-22)
Sven rendered a hero image of Stevie Speeds girlfriend Carmen Cobra.

Glow Tile Maker Tilemaker-Tool veröffentlicht (2009-06-19)

Glow Tile Maker examples

Intro preview Vorspann Vorschau (2009-06-01)
Sven created en entirely new image for the intro.

Graveyard Vorstellung neuer Grafiken (2009-05-30)

Furniture

Monster

Sign text Texte auf Schildern (2009-04-11)
I added objects that are able to show text right in the level instead of in the UI.

Hellish false colors Höllische Fehlfarben (2009-04-05)

Magic key Der Schlüssel zum Erfolg (2009-02-22)

Magic key

Engine tests Die ersten Engine-Schritte (2009-02-15)

Screenshot

Level editor screenshot

Soft tile shading Hallo Hurrican (2009-02-08)
I changed the background layer shading from a per-tile to a per-vertex mode.

Symbol font Von Level, Bossgegnern, Zaubersteinen und einem leichten Einstieg (2009-02-05)

Graveyard Die ersten Szenen (2009-02-01)
Some of the earliest Photoshop sketches of how the game might look like.

Test scene

Test scene

Unbelievable statistics Der ultimative Highscore (2009-01-30)
When uninitialized memory is shown as an end-of-the-level statistics screen.

Level editor screenshot Neues vom Editor (2009-01-10)

Stevie Speed Der erste Stevie (2009-01-04)
The very first sketch for the player character Stevie Speed.

2008

DirectX texture coordinates Pixelkoordinaten in DirectX (2009-01-02)
I finally fixed a (famous) of-by-half-a-pixel error in the Direct3D render pipeline.

Fun with additive blending Wenn man es mit dem Glühen übertreibt (2008-12-05)
While playing around with blending modes I set the entire engine to use additive blending.

Editor September 2008 Ist da noch jemand? (2008-09-28)
Introducing the brand new shading option for the background tile layer.

Stevie Speed Das Innenleben von Stevie Speed (2008-08-30)
How our player character is constructed from pre-rendered 2D sprites.

Hips

Stevie Speed

Stevie Speed Stevie was wearing a black Matrix-like leather coat in version 1.0 to 1.5.

Stevie Speed Stevie is wearing a white shirt in version 1.666.

Additive blending Große Planungen (2008-08-04)
Comparison of a star particle effect with solid and additive blending.

Test objects A selection of new decorative objects in the level editor.

Texture filter Fire uses smooth resampling and additive blending now.

Spell effect A very large particle effect appears when Stevie activates a magic spell.

Particles and special effects Action is nix, ohne FX (2008-07-13)

Screen resolutions diagram Auflösungsunabhängigkeit (2008-06-27)
Diagram showing the most used screen resolutions in 2008.

Enemies glow red Wie verletzt man einen Gegner? (2008-06-26)
Enemies are now flashing red when they are hit.

Screenshot Glow wird Freeware (2008-06-23)

Other assorted images

Glow We spend way to much time discussing this image. Well, it's shown every time a quick save is loaded or the level changes, but is it worth arguing about it? I love the lightning in this composition and that it appears like Stevie is creating the word »loading« with a magic spell out of thin air.

Editor screenshot The level editor.

Glow We do not recommend to play the game when you are under 12 years old, because it contains animated blood and mild fantasy violence.

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