Building a Game with the Real Engine
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Building a Game with the Real Engine
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Re: Building a Game with the Real Engine
#2Point and clicks have quite a few similar examples, the genre lends itself well to dioramas because even when it's 3D it's often a fixed camera path that you can optimize for.
As an example, a nice looking one from a decade ago: https://store.steampowered.com/app/205020/Lumino_City/
Papetura also got a fair bit of attention for a while (for good reason, just look at it): https://youtu.be/ZVhtuKleLuI
Personally I love the hand-crafted "real" look these bring. It tends to consume a ton of disk space, but it looks good pretty much forever.
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#3There was a nice game in this style called The Neverhood.
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#6Point and clicks have quite a few similar examples, the genre lends itself well to dioramas because even when it's 3D it's often a fixed camera path that you can optimize for. As an example, a nice looking one from a decade ago: https://store.steampowered.com/app/205020/Lumino_City/ Papetura also got a fair bit of attention for a while (for good reason, just look at it): https://youtu.be/ZVhtuKleLuI Personally I love…
Lumino City was the first one that came to mind for me as well!
The next one was the Fantasian, by the creators of Final Fantasy (https://youtu.be/ePFgyBtvqQU) - apparently this is finally coming to non-Apple platforms this year, at that.
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#7You could do gaussian splat on the diorama picture and you can have pretty good dynamic camera movements where the player could walk around
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#8Oddly enough, some of Cliff Bleszinksi's first titles published by Epic (then Epic MegaGames) were point and click adventures like Palace of Deceit: The Dragon's Plight. They had MSPaint graphics and VB code.
This is a lovely continuation of that same tradition that takes full advantage of your analogue craftsmanship skills.
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#9There was a nice game in this style called The Neverhood.
The soundtrack for The Neverhood was also very nice.
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#10Something similar was done for the 1996 game Creatures. A part of the diorama still survives and is on display at the Centre for Computing History in Cambridge (https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/42694/Creatures-Deve...).