WHAT HAS THE RESPONSE BEEN LIKE FROM PLAYERS - TO THE VISUALS ESPECIALLY? People love it! I think this is our biggest edge and why people want to give it a shot. They even find similar artists that I have never heard about before, such as the amazing Wayne Barlowe. And they can clearly see the inspirations from Lovecraft and Beksinski. It fills me with joy to realise the affection some players have for the game.
KNOWING WHAT YOU KNOW NOW, EITHER IN TERMS OF TECHNIQUE OR HOW THE GAME IS BEING RECEIVED, IS THERE ANYTHING YOU WOULD HAVE DONE DIFFERENTLY? While I don’t think we would have ended up with the game we made without the mistakes we made along the way, I would have liked to make the game with 3D systems rather than a lot of 2D systems. There are a lot of things that surprisingly are more optimised and work better with 3D code. For example, one huge issue we did not solve was to make 2D physics chains or monsters that ‘turn around.’ The issue when trying to flip a 2D physics object is that parts of it could intersect with another object, which 2D physics engines do not like and they try to push it out, which results in high velocities and exploded chains of rigid bodies. This would have been solved with 3D, where you could just have the monster turn around in space.
I am also considering not relying on physics engines as much as we have done and instead build procedural animation systems that make it look as if it is pure physics but that can defy gravity in an impressive cinematic way. I am very happy with how the AI texture solution turned out. I think I would have wanted to spend more time perfecting the solution and maybe coding it to change the silhouette more based on the style texture. I am definitely going to look into combining deep style transfer stuff with 3D texturing and perhaps even 3D modelling in the future!
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