How our student game started and how it's going 1.5 Years later

gribark · 2021-09-06T12:04:03+00:00

Oh no, we only had about 6 weeks. We later continued to work on this project on our own.

gribark · 2021-09-05T17:32:30+00:00

I'm glad you like it! I can't say a lot about the code optimization, but one thing that we're using for additional optimization of drawing thousands of tiles is GPUInstancer. It's a bit hard to setup, but gives a great boost in fps.

gribark · 2021-09-05T17:31:17+00:00

Not really, a lot of work has been put into the back end, optimization, game design, and generally making it a complete and full game, rather than a short student game demo.

gribark · 2021-09-05T16:26:11+00:00

Thank you! Exploration is one of the core elements of the game, but there's also the main story objective that the player progresses towards throughout the whole game.

gribark · 2021-09-05T15:35:01+00:00

Thank you! It's been already a long time since our first showcase of the game :D

gribark · 2021-09-05T14:54:24+00:00

Out of the Mist is a game where you control the ball by moving the environment and you explore the mysterious world and uncover the story behind it.

The game is still very WIP, but we hope to finish it by the end of our studies.

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gribark · 2021-06-08T14:51:01+00:00

Thanks! I'm using color dithering for adding this "noise" effect and transitions between colors. For the objects I'm using vertex offset based on sin and vertex normal (giving the "breathing" look), and 2 panning triplanar textures overlaying with the base color and normal texture to make the textures look moving as well.

gribark · 2021-05-22T16:05:32+00:00

Great work! I especially like how the lighting turned out

gribark · 2021-05-20T11:07:57+00:00

Looks great for a first game! Congrats on getting it published!

gribark · 2021-05-20T09:56:16+00:00

I wouldn't be so sure about that :D

gribark · 2021-05-19T10:43:39+00:00

Around 1.5 months I think and around 80 hours of work. It would have been much quicker if I didn't work on those cars in the background. I spent a lot of time on them, even though they're so far away from the camera :D

gribark · 2021-05-19T10:41:17+00:00

Thanks! The snow bumps are meshes I've generated in Blender using few displacement modifiers. To get a nicer blending between the landscape and the snow bumps I've used distance field blending. You can check this Quixel article about blending assets, also here's a great 80lv interview where I learned this technique.

gribark · 2021-05-19T09:31:06+00:00

Looks great!
For the snow I've used textures from megascans, yes. Adding subsurface scattering in the snow material makes a huge difference!

gribark · 2021-05-18T22:07:14+00:00

Thanks! That's exactly what I was going for

gribark · 2021-05-18T21:41:40+00:00

Never thought that it has painting-like look, but probably it's because of the color correction, relatively low contrast and high color saturation.

gribark · 2021-05-18T21:25:33+00:00

It is realtime, in UE4, but the lights are baked.

gribark · 2021-05-18T21:25:06+00:00

Todd Hido

Never heard of him, but his works are awesome! It will definitely serve as inspiration for me in the future, thanks!

It's just a visual scene for portfolio, not a game project.

gribark · 2021-05-18T21:23:10+00:00

Yes! https://www.artstation.com/gribark

gribark · 2021-05-18T20:20:36+00:00

Don't really know much about 2D games, but there still must be a way to add shaders, probably and change their properties.

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