Today we are releasing a first teaser of our upcoming survival horror game, “Unknown”. The video gives a quick demonstration of the mood and style we are aiming for, as well as demonstrating the maturity of the in-house developed HPL2 game engine.
Coping with Optimizing
We have been pretty bad at updating this work log, mostly because we have had so darn much to do. However we want to mend that and start writing more frequently from now on!
Level editor demo
Right, I finally got around to do a video that shows how you use the Level Editor for the new game and then test the newly created level.
HPL Level Editor Milestone 2: (Static) Objects in Space
I’ve been quite busy lately, so I haven’t been that able to drop by, but here I am again to show some progress on the Level Editor.
SSAO – Screen Space Ambient Occlusion
I recently implemented SSAO which the acronym for “Screen Space Ambient Occlusion”, which in turn is a way of simulating ambient occlusion in screen space.
Character version 2.0
I have spent the last 2 weeks working on a new character controller for HPL2 and finally the bulk of the code is complete.
HPL Level Editor milestone 1: It’s aliiive
Hi there, this is Luis, writing my first work log entry. In case you didn’t know, I’m the other coder here at Frictional, and it was about time I dropped by here and say something about work.
We’ve been naughty
We got kicked off our old server for “consuming” too much server power. After a couple of hectic days we now have the company, forum and support pages back, it’s a good thing we already had a new dedicated server up and running!
Frictional Goes To MOCKBA
The 17th this month me and Jens took a plane from Copenhagen to Moscow where we met up with Fredrick and Susana from Paradox Interactive. The whole point of the journey was to meet the Russian publisher of Penumbra, “Snowball”, and to hold a talk on Frictional Games and the production of Black Plague at a Russian game conferance called КРИ (That’s KRI for all you non-cryllians).
The unseen stuff
Normally you only hear about various graphical effect problems and issues regarding 3D engines. In this log I want to highlight a few other problem many 3D engine builder face, but you do not hear about as much.
