When I first loaded Metaisland in Unreal 5, here is what I got. The Skybox system had lost its parameter and all the lightning was reset! After a couple of days of work, I got this result instead. All the environment is now working with Unreal Engine 5. But this had learn some lessons: Nanite is not liking foliage and we in general cannot use Nanite in Metaisland. This technology is amazing for specific use (big high poly rocks). If […]
While we are ramping up the marketing for Metaisland and preparing to build the community awareness about this Metaverse project, I have built a very small version of the introduction video, only 2min! The music is made by our magical Ethan Lewis Maltby, and in 2 min you get a glimpse of what kind of project Metaisland is. Enjoy and share it as much as you can!!!
After a lot of discussions about Metaisland, specially because other’s already used this name for some NFT sales and it would be more difficult to get at the top of the search engine with such a popular name; Hassan (Hatu) Sheikh the co-founder of Daomaker, and also our friend on the project finally got it right. Once Plan9 came with the logo we all agreed that it was more inspiring than the old W.O.K idea. WOK is an utensil to […]
I have published a new updated media gallery for January 2022. There are some new area like the Tesla Coil area and of course the Cyber town area. I am working on the AI and NCP aspect of the game, but I have to do a lot of retargeting, so the movies with NPC will have to wait. The media gallery is here: https://blog.metaisland.gg/media-gallery-january-2022/ Here are some example.
As every two month I publish a playable demo, here is the November 2021 edition. You can find it here, or in the download section of the website. This month is focusing on the main character. I have added a lot of basic actions, like guns, rifles, climb to anything, and basic enemies logic. I have also many different characters to choose from. In that demo you can switch from first person shooter to third person shooter with C You […]
I have updated the website with the new Media Gallery September 2021 and with a video showing the game. Click on this link to go to the picture gallery: https://wok-game.com/media-gallery-september-2021/ And here is the video.
I have posted the Media Gallery for Mai-June 2021, it is here: https://blog.metaisland.gg/media-gallery-may-june-2021/ and in the menus. Feel free to browse and share the picture of the game.
I have released the April Playable demo for my Patrons and the Fighter’s club at discord. This demo allows to play, walk, visit and see how the mining will work. Slum Ville, Tech Ville, the beach, the viewpoint, the secret… all are in the video, but if you join my Patreon, you can download the 17 GB demo and play for real, explore the island and enjoy the day/night cycle, and the weather changes! Check the video or become ma […]
Today I was surprised to see that our Rank at IndieDB reached 77 out of 57811 projects at IndieDB.com!
