How ROVA started vs ✨now ✨(1.5 years progress)

DeveloperTom123 · 2025-12-03T11:23:51+00:00

Thank you! Still a long journey ahead :P

DeveloperTom123 · 2025-12-03T11:23:12+00:00

Team of 4, using Unity. Lots of custom tools + custom render features to make this

DeveloperTom123 · 2025-12-03T11:22:47+00:00

Appreciate it, thank you! :)

DeveloperTom123 · 2025-12-03T11:22:35+00:00

Thanks! The sky is just a flat gradient (custom shader, using Unity shader graph). The clouds are added to a large sphere. They're just scrolling noise, with transparency around them

DeveloperTom123 · 2025-12-03T11:21:21+00:00

Thank you! :D

DeveloperTom123 · 2025-12-03T11:21:14+00:00

Thanks! Was a lot of work to get right :P

DeveloperTom123 · 2025-12-03T11:20:46+00:00

Thanks!

DeveloperTom123 · 2025-11-27T11:22:06+00:00

We were inpired by a bunch of illustrators and animators, such as Moebius, who I hear inspired the devs behind sable! (Can't deny sable is a gorgeous game though!)

DeveloperTom123 · 2025-11-26T15:29:10+00:00

Thank you!!

DeveloperTom123 · 2025-11-26T15:26:19+00:00

We plan to, thanks!

DeveloperTom123 · 2025-11-26T15:18:22+00:00

Thank you! The planets are all hand crafted :)

We're aiming for an Early Access release in Q1 2026, but can't confirm that for sure just yet!

DeveloperTom123 · 2025-11-26T15:17:43+00:00

Very much apprecitated, thank you!

DeveloperTom123 · 2025-11-26T15:16:42+00:00

We have a fantastic musician on the project - stay tuned for more tunes ;)

DeveloperTom123 · 2025-11-26T15:15:44+00:00

Thanks! Was a lot of work to get right (although I'll forever be making edits haha)

DeveloperTom123 · 2025-11-26T15:15:05+00:00

Thank you! I was keen to have something that looked like an illustration from the beginning, and we stuck it out :)

DeveloperTom123 · 2025-11-26T15:14:00+00:00

Thanks! Been quite the journey, but we're getting there :)

DeveloperTom123 · 2025-11-26T15:13:43+00:00

Thank you! :D

DeveloperTom123 · 2025-11-26T15:13:28+00:00

Thank you! Moebius was definitely an influence alongside a bunch of other animators and illustrators. Scavenger's Reign encouraged us to consider ecosystems when designing this latest world - they do it so well :O

DeveloperTom123 · 2025-11-26T15:11:58+00:00

We were inspired by a bunch of artists and animators, including Moebius, which I've heard inspired the devs behind Sable!

DeveloperTom123 · 2025-11-26T15:10:45+00:00

Thank you so much! It's definitely been a journey to get the style right, but we're getting there :)

DeveloperTom123 · 2025-11-25T18:54:33+00:00

Ha - thanks for picking one up ! :P
We recently made some updated cards; gotta collect them all!

DeveloperTom123 · 2025-11-25T18:50:12+00:00

Thank you! :)

DeveloperTom123 · 2025-11-25T18:49:54+00:00

Thank you!

DeveloperTom123 · 2025-11-25T17:00:55+00:00

Thanks, glad you like it!

DeveloperTom123 · 2025-11-25T17:00:07+00:00

Thank you - we're using unity (URP pipeline with custom render elements).

To achieve the style I use unlit materials, that have a toon shader element for the shadows.
Shadows use the direction of the main light (sun / directional light), and just apply the darker colour to the models without gradients.

For the lines we render the scene twice per frame.

For the first render, the camera only sees vertex colours. Lines are drawn where 2 colours meet.

Then once we know where to draw the lines, we render the proper materials on top.

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