Comments on: The Shipwreck

By: Oddkins

Oddkins — Wed, 30 Apr 2014 01:40:53 +0000

This is my favorite location revealed thus far. I have a certain love for spaces that normally shouldn’t have water in them that end up having some, like, certain areas in Half-life and the underwater scenes in The Abyss and Alien Resurrection. What better way to demonstrate decay and abandonment. There is something poetic about nature reclaiming the mechanical.

The promise of this area though… It looks so fantastic! I am very interested to see how one gets inside, wether it’s through that grey rock, or if you have to swim onto it.

The interconnectedness I detect here reminds me of Shadow of The Colossus, and that, is a great thing.

By: jake

jake — Fri, 11 Oct 2013 07:52:02 +0000

This game is such a breath of fresh air for the gaming industry. You can tell you guys have a lot of pride in this game. Looks amazing. Can’t wait to play it on the PS4. Please, just take my money already. I really, really, want to play it.

By: Kyrith

Kyrith — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 22:57:37 +0000

As always, awesome stuff! Damn that lighting is fiiiiinnnnne.

By: Luca

Luca — Sun, 15 Sep 2013 06:58:48 +0000

I think this will be the true successor of Myst and surely a real masterpiece.
Please, how much time is left to the completion?
Many thanks for your fine work

PS: I tried many times to signup for email newsletter, but your system does not send anything to me.

By: asdf

asdf — Sat, 14 Sep 2013 19:40:07 +0000

Wow. I love the way this game is starting to look. It seems to have a very distinct art style. And, beauty in games doesn’t always need to be defined by the amount of detail and realism – a game can be just as beautiful when it has a coherent style across the board, and this game seems to shaping up to be quite a looker.

Anyway, I always enjoy the posts. Keep ’em coming!

By: Owen

Owen — Sat, 14 Sep 2013 15:02:07 +0000

In reply to Neil. If you designers have the time (ha), I would be highly amused and might giggle uncontrollably if you put some small parody of some other adventure game puzzle in your map somewhere...

By: Neil

Neil — Sat, 14 Sep 2013 13:20:07 +0000

In reply to Owen. That ship aint ever gonna float again. But amusing reference none-the-less :)

By: Owen

Owen — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 22:55:32 +0000

Is there going to be a little ship somewhere else that you have to puzzle over and then the ship floats again?

By: Andrew Russell

Andrew Russell — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 15:38:08 +0000

In reply to BillyTheBanana.

This reminded me of the “SS Maheno”. And you’re right that there’s definitely something “off” about this ship. I’m hoping it does get improved on.

To me it looks like they’ve not finished “bedding” it in its environment. In particular: the texture doesn’t change at the water line.

Also a lot of the damage looks very deliberate. The huge holes adjacent to very solid surfaces looks quite unnatural. Especially the holes that seem to have formed independently to supporting framework.

By: Charilaos

Charilaos — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 11:03:35 +0000

The attention to detail is fanatical, absolutely unique.

By: Michel

Michel — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 09:29:42 +0000

In reply to BillyTheBanana. It isn´t finished yet. So I´m not surprised that it´s looking rough for the moment.

By: Thomas Mølby

Thomas Mølby — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 08:46:50 +0000

I really love these updates :) Can’t wait to explore this world in the final game.

Which 3d applications do you use in your workflow?

By: ThatInterestedGuy

ThatInterestedGuy — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 07:22:55 +0000

Wow! The game so far looks really amazing, I’m highly anticipating it’s release. And if I may ask, what kind of texture maps did you use throughout the game? (diffuse/normal/light/bump/reflection/etc.)
Thanks a lot, and keep up the awesome and inspiring work!!

By: Hemlock Drew

Hemlock Drew — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 07:12:40 +0000

So excited to get two posts so close together! Looking great!

By: Sami

Sami — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 23:16:11 +0000

Awesome and interesting read. Looks like it’ll be fun to explore the shipwreck!

By: BillyTheBanana

BillyTheBanana — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 21:26:14 +0000

Huh. For what we have seen so far of the game, it has been beautiful. But this just looks kind of confusing and bare to me. Maybe it’s because I’m not familiar with what a shipwreck should look like, so my mind isn’t able to fill in the details. Or maybe I just need to explore it in game to “get” it, I don’t know.

By: Walter

Walter — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 20:17:11 +0000

The first image of the inside of the wreck honestly looks amazing! I really can’t wait to explore this ship in the final game :) .

Question about the artwork: Seems like all current gen games and all the next gen games we’ve seen so far heavily take advantage of normal maps for their artwork, yet it looks like this game uses them minimally, if at all, and lets the geometry completely define the form, correct? I’m surprised you guys were able to make a beautiful looking game while completely disregarding this industry norm. Just shows you that all rules are meant to be broken :) .

By: Jamin Grey

Jamin Grey — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 18:56:01 +0000

It looks nice. With the lightmaps auto-generated, I bet this art style saves alot of content-creation work that would otherwise be too expensive and time-consuming.

By: Brandon Beason

Brandon Beason — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 18:53:16 +0000

I can not wait for this game, this art style is amazing, and with a world so vast yet so small, I may spend most of my time just exploring the island over and over again.