White Paper Games http://www.whitepapergames.com/blog A Games Design Company Sat, 15 Jun 2013 13:19:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 ETHER ONE HAS BEEN GREENLIT – HERE IS A THANK YOU MESSAGE! http://www.whitepapergames.com/blog/2013/06/15/ether-one-has-been-greenlit-here-is-a-thank-you-message/ http://www.whitepapergames.com/blog/2013/06/15/ether-one-has-been-greenlit-here-is-a-thank-you-message/#comments Sat, 15 Jun 2013 13:19:46 +0000 Ben Hill http://www.whitepapergames.com/blog/?p=695

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Hey guys, So.. It’s official! We have now been Greenlit!! Wooo!! Thank you all so SO much for voting for us and pushing our game out to all your friends and to anyone else that would listen. It’s such a relief for us knowing that we’re now going to be releasing on such a huge [...]

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Hey everyone – it’s been a while since we last gave an update on Ether One – so in this post we are going to cover a whole load of info such as Greenlight, Development Progress, Interviews as well as FAQ’s. Greenlight So for those of you guys that are unaware of our current Greenlight [...]

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Hey guys, We’ve been working pretty full on for the last few weeks trying to get a new trailer together for you all to check out. A lot of hard work went in to it and we’re really happy with the results so we hope you will be too! The main aim of the trailer [...]

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Particle systems in Ether posed pretty much the same problems as everything else so far. How to make them fit the Ether style? How can we make them quickly? Bellow you will find some of the particle systems I created for Ether and how the process was. One of the main issues with VFX work [...]

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When setting out to create the trees for Ether, the team had the idea of being able to change the seasons on the fly, so for example, one minute it would look like a summer day, the next it would turn to autumn. From the get go, I had this in mind and I was [...]

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The next challenge of Ether was foliage, specifically the Grass. As always, the grass needed to be optimised to its full potential, and of course, not compromise the ether style at all. The original approach I took was to create 3D blades of grass using planes, and then use those shapes to paint over in [...]

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The first challenge at White Paper Games came in the form of water. Replicating realistic water is quite a feat on its own, however, for Ether, we required the water to make sense with the world and follow the artistic style that we had already established for the game. This created a number of challenges [...]

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The work in December consisted of fleshing out the prologue to Ether One and working on the hub world for the game. The shot above shows the hub world in a very bare form. Me and my fellow artist James sat down and planned out how we could make the environment more interesting.  We discussed [...]

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Development Continues… I continued to create the new harbor area, in the next month we planned to put out a gameplay trailer so I had a few weeks to completely finish this area. The shots below show continued development. I then had to move on to creating the second part of the mining area as [...]

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Using the Mining environment assets I created some test scenes to see what kind of caves shapes can be created using the one rocky wall mesh. The results below show that a lot of natural open spaces can be created. Small Vertical Slice Pete was planning to upload Ether onto Steam Greenlight and wanted to [...]

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