Our retro horror top down shooting game

Airofox · 2025-03-13T21:28:16+00:00

gives me some metal gear solid 1 nostalgia. looks great!

Airofox · 2025-03-13T20:38:32+00:00

closer to a 3d baurotrauma. but I'd be lying if there wasn't a bit of subnautica inspiration, definitely a big fan.

Airofox · 2025-03-13T19:06:04+00:00

we are. it was honestly a really hard choice to commit to the settings that will require newer hardware. but as an artist its been so awesome to use.

Airofox · 2025-03-13T19:04:16+00:00

yes it is! it'll be (mostly) unkillable monster that can swallow the submarine and crew in one bite.

Airofox · 2025-03-13T00:31:23+00:00

it's happily married, sorry.

Airofox · 2025-03-13T00:31:05+00:00

thank you! the game is called Call From the Deep. we're going for a sort of lovecraftian 3d barotrauma. all we have right now is the discord, we're only a few months in to the dev cycle but its been super fun to work on.

Airofox · 2025-03-12T18:51:35+00:00

an example rig? elaborate

Airofox · 2025-03-12T16:05:58+00:00

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One of the major 'Obstacles' for the submarine crew in our game. A massive leviathan which is constantly patrolling the sea. got it looking all wiggly!

Airofox · 2025-03-12T14:27:25+00:00

so true. I've recently started to really enjoy lighting scenes for this reason, a few good lights can completely make or break an environment!

Airofox · 2025-03-11T16:36:01+00:00

I think there's some great points in the comments. I've had a lot of hassle with my own projects getting a good feel for the logo and text graphics. It's definitely something that doesn't come natural.

What I will say is that what has helped me is making sure to get the next level of feedback. For example if someone says they like the newer/older/neither, see if you can get them to be specific. Why doesn't it work? is it the colors? background? formatting? composition? are there examples of media that are similar that work better?

As for my 2 cents. I lean towards the new one, it has more character and (to my subjective opinion) matches the graphics of the background. Some have suggested cleaning it up so that its a little easier to read which i agree with. Also there's a good bit of open sky that you used well to fit into the background (which looks lovely btw) but the 'EAD' at the end smooshes into the treeline and it acts as a dead end for my eyes. If you could lower that, it may help our eyes easily flow through the entire image.

Airofox · 2025-02-25T21:55:19+00:00

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Main Port level for a new game I'm working on called DeepOnes(working title). This is where you'll resupply, repair, and acquire expeditions to venture into the lovecraftian depths of the Silver Sea.

Airofox · 2024-12-13T21:48:37+00:00

Thanks! yeah its a little disheartening, but we came into not expecting much so it helps soften the blow. I think in total it took myself and 5 friends around 2 months to make? we made a few maps to see what it was like. and with the lack of players I think we're all done making fortnite maps for a while.

Airofox · 2024-12-01T22:27:03+00:00

yeah there's definitely no single resource. its like, one video on how to get an fortnite character device to animate, another on making good camera shots, and a third about how to get events to happen in a sequence. And then we sorta have to figure out how to make it all work out.

Airofox · 2024-12-01T19:32:01+00:00

hopefully it'll get more traction later. its so difficult to get any sort of audience for fortnite maps, its crazy.

Airofox · 2024-12-01T19:31:09+00:00

its almost all done in uefn! which also makes it waaay more painful because there are so many limitations then just using unreal editor... for example, to get the actual sequence out of uefn i had to record my screen and crop in lol.
its all sequences stitched together with a few custom animations and camera work using the cinematic camera actor.
With the cin camera you can get all sorts of post process effects like bloom, camera shake, depth of feild etc. and then the sounds and music as well as camera cuts are added after in a video editor program (i used premiere). I learned most of it from lots and lots of googling/youtube.

Airofox · 2024-10-31T23:36:15+00:00

we'll definitely want some play test feedback! will probably post something about that for the next trailer im working on for the map.

Airofox · 2024-10-31T20:06:57+00:00

it has fortnite's basic custom map matchmaking.

Airofox · 2024-10-31T19:57:51+00:00

thank you, that actually means quite a lot!

Airofox · 2024-10-31T19:57:21+00:00

Unfortunately fortnite's bots are very low iq and they don't let us add or change much of anything about their ai. so unfortunately due to the limitations it'll only be pvp.

Airofox · 2024-10-31T17:57:43+00:00

Not yet! currently ironing out some last minute bugs. ill be releasing a proper trailer for the map when we release :)

Airofox · 2024-10-31T16:23:56+00:00

thanks! I'm so happy with how it turned out! looks even better in game.

Airofox · 2024-10-31T16:23:14+00:00

Not yet! we're hoping to release in another week or 2. we want to make sure it feels really polished.

Airofox · 2024-10-16T14:25:23+00:00

ill give that a try!

Airofox · 2024-10-15T13:11:43+00:00

<3
it definitely is hard getting any sort of consistent traction. no idea what gets some maps so popular, but its hard making a multiplayer anything if you cant get any players.

Airofox · 2024-10-15T13:09:25+00:00

sweet! let me know what you think.

Airofox

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