Astral Clock Tower Studios

MAY 14, 2020

We're officially in the final development crunch for the vertical slice demo of Kristala! WE ARE OFFICIALLY IN THE FINAL DEV CRUNCH FOR THE KRISTALA VERTICAL SLICE DEMO! He also programmed the functionality for throwing consumables in the Kristala demo. Wait, wait, wait. clears throat*. Behold.the completed, eight-legged fiend!

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JUNE 29, 2021

Concept Art. Since embarking on the huge endeavor to completely revamp the entire Kristala demo, we've had our artists and modelers working hard to recreate some of the props and environmental elements that already existed in the original Dalamase demo level. Why redo everything again, you might ask?

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

In the Kristala demo, you'll play as the chosen warrior from the nature-loving Nisarga clan. This month, Cass was able to fully texture all three sets of Jhacanda tree houses and officially cross this ongoing task off his to-do list. We're looking forward to seeing how Cass textures this beast of a model once he's done crafting it.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JANUARY 14, 2021

He was able to finish modeling all three sets before getting started on some seriously impressive texturing. Here's a look at the models for the third set of Jhacanda houses, as well as a look at the texturing Cass started for the first set of houses. We can't wait to see these textured! Check it out!

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MAY 27, 2021

In last month's dev blog installment, we introduced you to the progress we'd commenced on the overhaul we're currently giving to the entirety of the Kristala demo—including characters, enemies, levels, and more. Concept Art. Right away, Harold dove into creating fresh, detailed concepts for each level area in the Kristala demo.

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Nvidia

MAY 26, 2021

In 2018, NVIDIA launched our RTX technology alongside a stunning Star Wars demo called Reflections , which was built on Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 4. Enabling this vision were RTX GPUs with dedicated cores for ray tracing and AI, as well as new hardware capabilities for increased geometric detail and texture streaming.

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OPM Jobs

JUNE 9, 2022

In addition, if you have any game demos of your own, you may get some constructive feedback that can help. Games Artist – Creates the overall look of the game, from a realistic art style to a more stylised look. Develops the look of characters, scenery and textures.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 29, 2024

art, design, technology, physics, coding, music, maths, 3D, problem solving, empathy, and fun!” Plus, hearing from people who played the demo, really like the game, and want to talk about the details of it is the best. So, after much deliberation and many cost modelling spreadsheets, I quit my job to pursue making an indie game, solo.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Once he's modeled all three sets, Cass will then begin the tedious texturing process for each one. This sprint, Karena was able to complete her model and begin texturing. Make sure you stop by our Concept Art section in this issue of the blog to get a sneak peek at what the armor sets will look like. link] Concept Art.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Here's a look at Cass's finished model for the coliseum, complete with unwrapped UVs and applied textures. These are still a very early work in progress, but check out what Shelly's got thus far: Shelly also lent her impressive texturing skills this sprint to some of the picture frame models Karena created. link] Concept Art.

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Filmustage

JANUARY 10, 2022

But before we continue, we want to remind you that here we promote the love of art and try to inspire you to take your camera and make a short film. That's why we're so interested not in the movie itself, but in what's behind it: shortly after the premiere, Epic Games released a free demo of the game based on the original Matrix.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 26, 2020

The Dodge The Creeps C# demo running on the iOS Simulator. GLES2/GLES3: Add support for OpenGL external textures ( GH-36342 ). GLES2/GLES3: Reset texture flags after radiance map generation ( GH-37815 ). 2D batching for the GLES2 renderer. While most rendering work was postponed for the 4.0

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Mnenad

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

If you just need to batch once or twice during runtime even a high number of objects (in a demo scene he uses 10k mesh objects) the FPS will increase immensely with the code provided by Mr. Dimitrov, but if you do it over and over again I recommend  MeshCombineStudio. This was recorded during the batching process.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

It brings a brand new rendering engine with state-of-the-art PBR workflow for 3D, an improved assets pipeline, GDNative to load native code as plugins, C# 7.0 The new 3D renderer is state-of-the-art, with features rarely see in game engines today, such as: Full principled BSDF. Unfortunately, the visual material editor from Godot 2.1

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 24, 2023

Art Director Wojciech Ostrycharz found inspiration for the art style on the covers of sci-fi books from when The Invincible novel was published. The art style of the game is, therefore, the quintessence of not only retrofuturism but also hard sci-fi.” “Games are not about textures, assets, features or levels.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JULY 31, 2021

After over a year of exhibiting at various online game conventions, we can't properly tell you how stoked we are to be presenting an exclusive build of Kristala—featuring our revamped demo level—at this year's Play NYC convention. Concept Art. In the full version of Kristala, you'll be able to choose from one of six different clans.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

AUGUST 5, 2020

Last issue, we shared the texturing work Cass had started on the forest homes, many of which resemble beautiful log cabins due to the intricate woodwork featured throughout. Much to Cass's relief (we're sure anyway), he was finally able to finish applying textures to the townhouses over the past few weeks. Take a look! Check it out!

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MARCH 20, 2021

Once considered a thriving mecca for Anagativan art and entertainment, the Nisargan city of Nasahara was set ablaze during the Great Kota Rebellion, forcing its frightened denizens to flee the city they call home in search of safety and solace. This sprint, Karena was able to tackle the UVs and begin texturing. Take a look!

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Take a look at the progress he made on modeling and texturing the sewer pipes, grates, landings, and divisions. Once the models for the sewer items were completed, Cass then shifted focus to texturing them. She'll be finishing up these textures in the coming weeks, but here's where the structures currently stand.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

The last time we met, we were right in the thick of preparing an early, pre-demo build of Kristala for unveiling at the PlayNYC virtual convention. Now that he's done with the model itself, Cass will focus on unwrapping the UV's before getting started on the detailed texturing for this colossal beauty.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JULY 6, 2020

link] Will also worked on setting up several of the original musical tracks that will be featured both in the Kristala demo and in the full version of the game. Lastly, Nick revisited the 3D model for his previously created Anagativa skeleton to improve its shape and textures before handing it off to Allie for rigging and animation.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Since then, we've been laser-focused on our next big milestone: completing the entire vertical slice for Kristala.Which means we're inching closer and closer to the official release of the game's demo too. Concept Art. Each clan's capital city will have its own unique starting point. 3D Modeling. Green Potion: Cures poisoning.

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Radiator Blog

APRIL 9, 2021

Then as you come across more complicated problems, you'll want to browse the very helpful Demos , each with a link to its full source code on GitHub. However, it has been designed for a fairly specific use case: tile-based pixel art platformers. I didn't try to find out. but the workflow here is really unclear to me.

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