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| 2s | foreign |
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| 11s | s since we announced stormgate and we |
| 15s | want to provide an update on our |
| 17s | development |
| 18s | we're actually building our own game |
| 20s | engine and no that doesn't mean that |
| 22s | we're not using Unreal Engine 5. Unreal |
| 24s | Engine 5 is powering all of the graphics |
| 27s | and sound and input provides the |
| 30s | pathways for all of the art that we put |
| 32s | into the game but the gameplay itself is |
| 35s | driven by a piece of technology that |
| 37s | we're developing called Snow Play |
| 39s | Snow Play is a custom developed engine |
| 42s | for real-time strategy it is a set of |
| 45s | logic that is being built exclusively by |
| 48s | our team here at frostgiant designed to |
| 51s | handle the high unit counts and the low |
| 54s | latency networking that are necessary to |
| 56s | facilitate a really great real-time |
| 58s | strategy game you're going to hear today |
| 60s | from James andholt our Chief Architect |
| 63s | who is leading the development of snow |
| 65s | play and you're also going to hear from |
| 68s | our art director Jesse Brophy who is |
| 70s | leading the design for each of the |
| 73s | factions or races that are going to be |
| 75s | featured in our game |
| 77s | Snow Play is the deterministic game |
| 79s | engine that we built to provide us with |
| 81s | fast smooth responsive RTS gameplay |
| 83s | snowplay is all about making stormgate |
| 86s | more fun |
| 87s | the fun in the game comes from how |
| 89s | responsive the game is and how it just |
| 91s | feels to play it Unreal Engine 5 |
| 93s | provides a client server networking |
| 95s | model but we require a networking model |
| 97s | that supports a large number of units |
| 100s | and Snow Play gives us this |
| 101s | deterministic engine where we can just |
| 103s | simulate the game based on the player |
| 105s | inputs |
| 107s | Snow Play allows us to simulate |
| 109s | stormgate at 60 hertz for smooth |
| 111s | responsive gameplay feel it'll be the |
| 114s | most responsive RTS game I've ever |
| 116s | worked on and I've worked on a few great |
| 118s | ones |
| 119s | rollback allows us to reduce the lag a |
| 122s | player feels playing the game over the |
| 123s | internet |
| 124s | rollback works by allowing us to |
| 126s | simulate the game even in the absence of |
| 128s | player input and if we receive input |
| 130s | later we can roll back to that time that |
| 133s | the input happened and then simulate |
| 135s | forward really quickly to catch back up |
| 137s | Snow Play allows us to mass spectate |
| 139s | games where the viewer can rewind have |
| 143s | instant replays and then fast forward |
| 145s | back to where they were originally |
| 146s | because no play is deterministic we can |
| 149s | Mass spectate a live game |
| 151s | by broadcasting just the player's |
| 153s | actions to the viewers and re-simulate |
| 156s | the game on their computers snowplay |
| 159s | enables designers to iterate quickly by |
| 161s | compiling all the game logic into |
| 163s | webassembly so that they can iterate |
| 166s | while never leaving the game |
| 168s | this also unlocks the potential for |
| 170s | modders to be able to iterate quickly |
| 172s | and reach the same level of Polish |
| 175s | the art team has been focused on a lot |
| 177s | of things in the last five months we |
| 178s | wanted to get a unified visual vision |
| 180s | for both the resistance and the infernal |
| 183s | host we're also doing a lot of work on |
| 185s | our core technology inside of unreal as |
| 188s | well as a great deal of environment work |
| 190s | for our terrain and our Cliff systems |
| 192s | we're calling the human faction the |
| 193s | resistance and their Humanity's last |
| 195s | line of defense against the infernal |
| 197s | Invaders their Scrappy group they've |
| 200s | preserved knowledge about Advanced |
| 202s | Robotics and scientific know-how and |
| 204s | this gives us a lot of options for Mech |
| 206s | designs as well as creative exploration |
| 208s | of future Technologies recently the |
| 210s | concept team took about six weeks to |
| 212s | focus on the visual development of the |
| 213s | resistance we didn't have design briefs |
| 216s | and none of these are specifically going |
| 217s | to go into game it's just us exploring |
| 219s | visually what the faction is going to |
| 220s | look like this first image is by Leah |
| 223s | one of our concept artists and it's just |
| 226s | her exploring uh stuff that she kind of |
| 229s | wanted to look into visually she got |
| 230s | inspiration from Buzz Lightyear and F-14 |
| 233s | Tomcats And this is the result of that |
| 235s | this next image is one created by Timmy |
| 237s | one of our concept artists as well and |
| 239s | it's his take on what a resistance |
| 241s | flying unit could look like |
| 243s | this final unit is called the gigamec |
| 245s | created by John Ryder we don't know if |
| 247s | this Mech will ever make it into the |
| 248s | game but artistically we wanted to |
| 250s | explore what it could look like if there |
| 251s | was an end game unit something that was |
| 253s | so massive when it came out of the |
| 254s | battlefield that one side was going to |
| 255s | have to win over the other The Infernal |
| 257s | host is a violent warmongering Society |
| 260s | of alien creatures they travel through |
| 262s | storm gates from planet to planet |
| 263s | conquering any life forms that they come |
| 265s | across anything strong enough to fight |
| 267s | back is assimilated into their ranks |
| 269s | their main purpose is for resources |
| 270s | primarily what we would call life force |
| 272s | or anima Earth has a great deal of Anima |
| 275s | which makes it a high value Target to |
| 277s | the infernals to them energy equals |
| 279s | power the human faction uses Advanced |
| 282s | robotics the infernals use Magic just |
| 285s | like the resistance visual development |
| 286s | that we did we also did the same thing |
| 288s | for the infernals we took six weeks to |
| 289s | really focus on what the designs are |
| 291s | going to be so that we had a unified |
| 292s | language for the team this image is what |
| 295s | we're calling the mistreaper we loved it |
| 297s | the second Leah drew it it again was all |
| 299s | part of our exploration to go how do we |
| 301s | want to design the infernals |
| 303s | this image is by TJ again one of our |
| 305s | concept artists and he really wanted to |
| 307s | explore the structures of the infernals |
| 309s | and what the shape language was and what |
| 311s | type of materials we could use to |
| 312s | explore them this final image by Tom one |
| 314s | of our concept artists is what we're |
| 315s | calling the worker right now we wanted |
| 317s | to keep the infernals very dark and |
| 320s | gritty but there are some areas where we |
| 321s | want to have some charm and levity and |
| 323s | we thought this would be a great place |
| 324s | to do it again we don't know if any of |
| 326s | these units will make it into the game |
| 327s | we were just exploring visually as a |
| 329s | team |
| 330s | so that's what we've been working on I |
| 332s | know everybody's eager for some gameplay |
| 334s | footage and we will share some gameplay |
| 336s | footage next year before closed testing |
| 339s | starts but in the meantime I want to |
| 341s | wish you a happy holiday on behalf of |
| 343s | everyone here on the frost giant |
| 345s | development team |
| 363s | cinnamon |
| 365s | good boy |