benwiddowson
patreon
Camera test build incoming!
🕑 Added 2021-05-26 15:51:35 +0000 UTCHey everyone! Great news, the camera test build is about done. I am putting some finishing touches and extra polish in and clearing all the compiler errors so I can make the build. I can't be sure exactly how long it will take, but we should have it out friday or monday morning at the latest!
This build is just a very early pre-alpha so you can walk around the park with the camera angles working properly. The environment is roughly 60% complete, we will need to do a lot more decorating and have quite a few 3d assets to complete along with better lighting set up, but you should be able to get a great idea of the atmosphere we are going for in the final release version.
What we need help with is making sure that every camera works, "feels good", and there are no dead spots. I am fairly sure that all but one or two cameras are what I want and transition the way I'd like, but as we learned with Sense I have a weird taste for games haha. If there are any camera angles you feel are too long, too far away, have a bad transition to or from, or just dont quite work let us know right here on patreon, in dms, on twitter, or in email! Send screenshots and let us know what you think in detail! We of course are open to other critique on lighting, details, and any other aspect, but some things for you to consider;
- the music is temp, we may be using the "Safe Haven" theme from Resident Evil Remake to set the tone but are debating, if you don't hear that song in the game, then we opted to use our own music or something else instead! I just put it in there to test atmosphere and sound mixing and really liked it.
- The old version of the outer walls and original groundplane are still in the game so that the walls of the park are visible for the build, but will be replaced by a new, higher poly and resolution asset, along with the new sidewalk eventually. We are waiting on our new computer to get here from Origin PC so that Kay can help make those!
- the player character is currently Olly, our test girl. Kaho is being animated and we hope to have her done and ready for testing soon. Olly was something I made last fall to learn character modeling and rigging. It's not the best character model, but works great for testing purposes. So rest assured she will be replaced later!
- we plan to add more futuristic elements to better show that this game takes place in a cyberpunk 2085, but those will be set dressing and for extra flare. The atmosphere of the game will be relying on the idea of the abandoned park, stuck in time.
We will distribute the build to patrons via DM with a mega or dropbox link (probably MEGA) . Feel free to share screenshots or clips/videos anywhere you choose, but DO NOT distribute the build itself. We want that to remain a patron only thing. Just make sure to link people to our patreon or twitter account if you share something!
I will also be sharing some new screenshots and clips everywhere to help push people to become patrons, just a heads up that I didnt forget about giving you guys exclusives. We just have to do some PR and promo lol. Thank you all for your support this month, Next month's build will be much smaller and test a specific gameplay element in a test chamber, hopefully with Kaho in place!
