Wayfire Games

Solodeveloping CELLSHOCK, a creature-summoning game in UE5. AAA dev by day. All-things game design, art, and dev.

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@nbsparth That is hard. Such a shame especially when ME had you as AD.

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@CraigABloom Me too!

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First look at some very sketchy ideas for monsters you'll encounter in CELLSHOCK...oh and a bit of a first look on one of the characters you play.

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@owenbroadcast Maybe we’re wrongly defining paradise in our modern Western paradigm. Part of the joy of having a garden is tending it, seeing the fruit of one’s labor.

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@Uromannen2pm He uses our suffering to refine us, not too dissimilar from how we polish paintings by erasing or painting over rougher areas.

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@pedro_m_war Guess the strategy now is create cheap garbage projects to build community/presence while working on the real game 😮‍💨🫩

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@TheCartelDel I can see this being a big problem for gimmicky game design with very few layers. Not so much for a deeper game design that has a solid fantasy it’s selling that isn’t tied to just game design.

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@anardooo Good to hear!

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@Youkoulailay I definitely want to keep the proportions, the silhouettes. The texture will probably have the most sketchy-like aspect to them. And they'll have an outline too.

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@GRUESOMETWOSOM9 @TheProjectUnity 🙄

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Clearer look at CELLSHOCK's art style so far.

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@playtrama It certainly is. It’s a combination of an outline shader, soft textures and lighting. It’s also an intentional lower/mid poly form for assets.

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For the first time, CELLSHOCK's art style is actually shining through. Super pumped.

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@gustavo_gamedev Thanks! Appreciate it!

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@lastchalice It was so boring I had to use cheats to speed up the game and it was still boring :(

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DEI/woke elements are one of several factors. I don’t think it alone accounts for it. I think the other two elements account for most of it.

The high fidelity focus + long dev cycles + 4th wall-breaking elements (like DEI/woke injections) is expensive financially and culturally. Apply this to TV—how much retention remains if a TV show took 7-10 years to release a new season? Not much.

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@thomasmahler Yep. Buying the garden without the gardeners. That garden is gonna die.

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A little experiment 😅😅😅

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CELLSHOCK's ruins are coming online bit by bit.

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