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| 20s | hi |
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| 20s | i'm tim morton from frost giant studios |
| 23s | i know there's been a lot of interest |
| 24s | to get an update on our development |
| 26s | progress we've still got a lot of big |
| 28s | questions ahead |
| 29s | but right now we're really just focused |
| 31s | on building out a foundation for a new |
| 33s | game |
| 34s | in this video you're going to hear from |
| 35s | members of the art design |
| 37s | and engineering teams about what they're |
| 39s | currently working on |
| 41s | i hope you enjoy the update for me i |
| 44s | love |
| 44s | focusing on the setting first i love |
| 48s | building a game world the reason why |
| 50s | setting is important to me |
| 52s | is that it is the foundation from which |
| 54s | everything else can be made it's hard to |
| 57s | decide what factions should be in the |
| 59s | game or what units should be in those |
| 61s | factions or what gameplay mechanics we |
| 63s | should do |
| 63s | if we don't really know the setting |
| 65s | first we're taking a look back |
| 67s | at the previous games in the genre or |
| 69s | just previous games as a whole |
| 71s | in the space so we have like warcraft 3 |
| 73s | starcraft 1 starcraft 2 obviously |
| 75s | we can look at how games that we think |
| 78s | of as |
| 79s | like you know the games of our lifetime |
| 81s | the games of our childhood |
| 83s | they do have some minor flaws and |
| 86s | i really wanted to delve into |
| 89s | what we could do better right now the |
| 91s | art team is myself |
| 92s | and two amazing concept artists and |
| 94s | we're really focused on one faction |
| 96s | currently |
| 97s | we're doing a lot of 2d work kind of |
| 100s | figuring out the look and the feel |
| 102s | and once we establish the visual |
| 104s | language of that faction |
| 106s | we will then create it in 3d and get it |
| 108s | into the game and kind of see what works |
| 110s | and what doesn't from a silhouette |
| 111s | standpoint and readability |
| 113s | at the moment i'm working with the other |
| 114s | designers to sort of figure figure |
| 116s | through |
| 117s | you know the different problems that we |
| 119s | need to solve to build the game we want |
| 120s | to build |
| 122s | but the ux specific components of that |
| 125s | are things like the flow of the user |
| 128s | through the client |
| 130s | the ui that the user uses to interact |
| 132s | with the game itself |
| 134s | and that includes gray boxing the ui |
| 137s | implementation of the ui |
| 138s | it could involve art we'll see there's |
| 141s | there's a lot of different |
| 142s | components to that i was various roles |
| 145s | on starcraft 2 |
| 146s | i was gameplay lead engine lead |
| 150s | currently i'm trying to lay the |
| 152s | foundation for our |
| 154s | deterministic simulation rts have a lot |
| 156s | of units |
| 158s | they need to be responsive we'll start |
| 161s | small and we'll implement |
| 162s | unit to unit collision and movement |
| 166s | there are about 500 yetis here of |
| 168s | various sizes and one large red yeti |
| 170s | the yeti splash when they're in |
| 172s | collision with another yeti and need to |
| 173s | be moved |
| 175s | as the large red yeti tries to trample |
| 177s | the smaller ones |
| 178s | it sets off a chain reaction that is |
| 180s | traditionally very expensive on the cpu |
| 182s | this is a demo of our physics engine |
| 187s | the hardest part about implementing an |
| 188s | rts is |
| 190s | getting high unit counts and |
| 193s | quick responsiveness with those high |
| 196s | unit counts |
| 198s | and that really requires a whole |
| 200s | different style of |
| 202s | coding a whole different style of doing |
| 205s | networking |
| 205s | so far i've sort of been laying the |
| 207s | foundations for our |
| 209s | network architecture and our network |
| 211s | code starting to hook that up to |
| 213s | various smaller pieces of our prototype |
| 215s | to sort of prove |
| 216s | that this foundation is something that |
| 219s | we can confidently |
| 220s | build the rest of the game on my |
| 223s | favorite part of the job is working with |
| 224s | a community |
| 226s | i love this community this community is |
| 228s | like family to me |
| 230s | my kids are in this community this |
| 231s | community is my family |
| 233s | we have a community member nice username |
| 236s | who kindly kicked off a subreddit for us |
| 240s | and that subreddit has been |
| 242s | also amazing incredibly active |
| 247s | full of ideas the progress from the |
| 250s | community side |
| 252s | has been terrific for us i think the |
| 254s | challenge |
| 255s | is the opportunity we are a small team |
| 257s | we're a small studio |
| 259s | we just formed the company we've just |
| 261s | assembled our initial core crew |
| 263s | and we're just beginning development on |
| 265s | our game we're able to make technology |
| 266s | choices |
| 267s | now at the outset that will support the |
| 270s | gameplay that we're after and we're able |
| 271s | to |
| 272s | design gameplay and approach it in a way |
| 274s | that is really fresh and is really new |
| 276s | we're entering a new phase where we're |
| 278s | going to be testing some of our initial |
| 280s | ideas by prototyping them |
| 281s | in the game where we're going to be |
| 283s | building our first units and our first |
| 284s | buildings getting our first taste of |
| 286s | gameplay and |
| 287s | really this is where the magic happens |
| 289s | we can really |
| 290s | prototype find the fun and then chase |
| 293s | that wherever it leads us in order to |
| 295s | deliver the best possible game |