This blog post will be about a new way to approach narrative design in games – the 4 Layers Approach. It is based on a GDC talk I gave in March this year. The approach is primarily meant to suggest a workflow that focuses on the story and makes sure the narrative and gameplay are connected. The end goal is to create games that provide a better interactive narrative.
Tech Feature: HPSL Shading Language
HPL3 is our first engine to support both PC and consoles. To make it easy to support multiple platforms and multiple shading languages we have decided to use our own shading language called HPSL. Shader code written in HPSL goes through a shader parser to translate it to the language used by the hardware.
