We’ve continued working on the lighting aspect of all our scenes, while also tweaking related content such as materials, reflection probes, color grading and so on, ensuring that everything is looking pretty and as close as possible to our vision.
As such, we’re bringing you a couple more examples of the new and improved looks that you can expect when you explore this unique world:
Overhauled lighting in the dungeons I.
Overhauled lighting in the dungeons II.
We hope that you’ve enjoyed the content that we had to share for this week, there are some new things in store that we hope to show you in the upcoming DevBlogs, so stay tuned!
For this Friday devblog post we’re revealing some of the results of our efforts in polishing the game, specifically regarding lighting and the mood it can bring to any scene.
The images shared below showcase a few scenes that have been through this overhaul, previous look as a reference on the top with the new lighting below it.
Improved lighting.
Some improved VFX together with improved lighting.
Another week has gone past almost without notice, as we’ve been focused on QA, polishing and balancing of the game.
We do miss sharing all sorts of new content, be it concept art, new items or even mechanics, but we all know that the final stretch is a necessary grind to ensure that we can deliver the best experience to everyone, leaving us little time for anything else.
The whole team is eager to cross the finish line and see the result of our passion being experienced by you, and that time is drawing closer and closer each day.
We’re also bringing you a gorgeous scene, featuring improved visual effects together with additional hand placed details:
This year is going to be truly important for the Decay of Logos team since, as you’re probably already aware, the game will be launched on all major platforms.
We’re on the final stretch of the QA, which feels great as it has helped us find all sorts of pesky issues that have been eluding us throughout our in-house testing sessions, most of which have already been addressed by our man of digital letters.
Although we don’t have much to share for this week, we can tell you that the new trees shown in the previous post are fully integrated into the game, and we’ve also continued improving upon our VFX as well!
Here’s two screenshots of said trees in the context of the game, for your viewing pleasure:
Swamp trees.
Forest trees.
Thank you as always for taking the time to read our DevBlog, have an awesome weekend!
Another week goes by, bringing further beautification and polish, together with more QA and fixing!
As promised in the last post, we’re sharing another example on how the decals can make a huge difference, allowing our beautification artist to experiment on the fly with different feels for certain areas:
Storytelling Decals!
The original room is on the left, unspoiled by the decals that are introduced on the right, covering the floor and the edges of the walls.
A whole different message is transmitted to those who observe their surroundings, allowing for that extra layer of storytelling that we love!
That’s all for this week, we have something different in store for you all next friday so stay tuned!
These past few days, like before (as well as in the upcoming weeks, most likely!) the team has focused its efforts on crushing bugs, especially on the console versions, and on detailing the game environments.
One of the tricks we’re using to add that extra level of polish to some areas is the good ol’ decal system. Here is an example of how we’re going about that:
Decals really help us smooth the transition between meshes with contrasting materials.
We’ll share more of these shots to illustrate our fine-tuning process next week.
Happy to announce that we’ve finally added additional language options for all in-game text. We might not be able to provide audio in every language but we’ll make sure that almost anyone in the world can enjoy the rich lore and story that our game offers. We’re still deep in development as you can see from today’s post, these are small but very important details that we’re taking great care with to ensure you have a good experience.
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Be sure that you tackle localization in the early stages of development, we guarantee that it will save you quite a few headaches. It’s definitely not something you should ignore as it will only increase the amount of work necessary later on. Avoid having hard-coded strings that are meant to be seen by your players and organize them in a manner that it’s easy and simple to add to your game.
In our particular case we use a simple numbered line id system, per-language and category(UI, Items, Hints, etc) that allows us to quickly export and import new content. Since the line ID remains the same between all languages, you don’t have to change any individual game logic to swap between them except for pointing your game to the appropriate language text. With some additional work you can even embed specific commands then you can than use with the Unity UI system to display images.
Decay of Logos is localized for:
-English (w/Audio)
-Portuguese
-Portuguese BR
-Spanish
-French
-German
-Japanese
On the art side of things, the team is spending some time making sure all areas have the same amount of detail across the board. Textures are being retweaked, more background planes are being placed, vegetation and other small details are being added… Some of these improvements are more than mere aesthetic changes, for they impact gameplay and the player’s experience.
Another week of QA goodness and bug slaying, a real massacre of all of those pesky issues that we would absolutely hate to let you all deal with. In all due honesty, these things do take a great deal of time and effort, and we’re happy that we have the time and resources to undergo a thorough testing and polishing phase!
As usual, we’re sharing some images of the progress made in the embellishment process that has been keeping our artists busy with hand placed details and final touches. We bring you one of the Ancestral sites that we’re sure everyone will love to explore, the Vallis Sanctum:
Catchy name, huh?
It’s also one of our largest dungeons!
That’s it for this week’s blog post, thank you for reading!
With the ongoing external QA, which is going pretty well since you’re asking, we’ve been tackling the the issues all around the clock.
The art team, however, has channeled their artsy magicae to polish the skybox, which is what we’re bringing out today for your viewing pleasure, so please enjoy the following screenshots:
Politely asking the Brute to stand aside to take this sky picture!
Communing with nature while taking another sky picture!
We hope that you’ve enjoyed the content we had to share today, rest assured that we’ll have more goodies to share further down the road, so stay tuned.
