One Publisher “Barking Dog” has made an amazing pack that is fitting exactly what I needed for the technology part of the game. The action take place in the future, after an almost total destruction of the world. Some survivors are isolated on an Island in East Asia. So there are mutants because of the Radiations, but also they are gone down to the medieval times because nothing is working. However, there are some machines that are still self maintaining […]
My first idea was Liberty City, because it is exactly what the name means. Helas, too many people have done things with this name and it would not be possible to find it on the web because too generic. Then I though, “since it will be heavily inspired by the city of Pattaya, I should call it something like Yattapa”. My first research for a logo convinced me that it was a bad idea. Then slowly I though “I waited so […]
After having chosen World Creator, I have collected all the tropical Assets I could find and started working on a simple Tropical demo. It took me about 1:30 hour to get to this result. Of course it is just a starting, but the main assets are here. uSky for the clouds, the sun shafts, the atmospheric scattering. The water is temporary AQUA since I will change that later, I need to have underwater and waves which AQUA lacks of. I […]
Some progression with the Tropical Environment. Now I am spawning particles everywhere, according to rules of course. I have also optimized and it is faster. Occlusion culling is doing a great job and saves me about 5 frames.
Welcome to this blog where i will post my long journey into making a video game. You may think, “this guy is doing his first video game, nah! Another dreamer!” In reality, this will not be my first, but I haven’t made a video game for +20 years, and so it is something I have thought and prepared for a long time. I had a carrier in the video game industry in the 80/90’s where I published several small games […]
Introduction If you want to make a great environment you have to carefully choose the tool that you are going to use, because there is no turn back. So my choices when I start working on that project in 2016 was Terrain Composer, Map Magic, Gaia and World Creator. I played with all of them and after many tests I finally choose World Creator. The evaluations Terrain Composer: not intuitive enough for my taste, good for very large terrains […]