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Ah, here we go again... There's a photo mode in Cairn (by @thegamebakers.com ) 👀

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January is a pretty weird month so far, but today, I had an idea for a game that I think is actually pretty good!
Figured out the game design and basically just have to flesh it out a little, but overall, it's all there 🙌

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Thank you! 🙏

I now have a little water system!
You can swim on the surface, dive down, swim underwater in every direction and dive up, all that with some nice water ripples 🌊

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Feeling a bit unmotivated working on Heroic so I'm prototyping for The Innermost Sea instead 👀

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I believe this kind of technology is also using an AI model which recognize the shape of the body and face to extract them.

Another technique could be to use a luma key (it's like green screen, but based on luminance). But your background and foreground must have a pretty good luminance difference.

Unfortunately, you most certainly have to roto your subject frame by frame.
Nowadays there are tools that can help you speed up the process : the Roto Brush in After Effects or the Magic Mask in the studio version of DaVinci.
There's also some AI tools to do that, but... it's AI.

A game that I can really gush about?

Bioforge

I struggled launching it on my computer back in 95 (we had to make a boot disk with my father. Good memories!), played it more than I can count and still love it to this day.

And now I discover this amazing project and it makes me so happy 😍

OMG this is absolutely amazing!!!!

Thank you so much!

While making Heroic, I'm also casually working on another game called The Innermost Sea.
It's gonna be a metroidvania but I hope it will be a bit different from what you can expect 👀

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And the way the game lets you create a natural physical and emotional bond without ever forcing anything is absolute masterful work.

Never seen something like this before in a game and I think we won't see an equivalent for a long while.

Replayed an hour of it yesterday. Ten years after, I'm still in awe. It's incredible. The way Trico interacts with its surroundings, both physically and with its behavior is truely spectacular.

a man in a white shirt is standing in a field of tall grass . ALT: a man in a white shirt is standing in a field of tall grass .

It's always a good time to remember that The Last Guardian is a tremendously bold game and Trico is one hell of a technical achievement in video game history.

Can't wait to see what Fumito Ueda and all the folks at genDesign are cooking!

All these numbers tell me that my combat system works, and that makes me feel very pog indeed 😎

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Pretty happy with how it turned out 😎

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Didn't post in a while BUT I've been working on the game and actually coded a new mechanic.
Surprisingly enough, it seems to work as intended 👀

Also reworked the UI and I'm much happier with it now. Still need work, though.

Also... Silksong 🫣

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If you see this, post something monochromatic!

Maybe I'll come back to this style in a future project, who knows?

Now I have to choose... 🫣

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Looks very cool! 💪

Mmmh... I don't really know which one I like better?
I like the menacing feel of one, but also the more bizarre look of the other...

Also... Yeah, it might be the first boss of the game 👀

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Thank you!

Thank you so much!
It means a lot to me as I think Vermis is one hell of a piece of art 🙏

Last update... maybe? 👀

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Added some foreground elements while also trying to play with pixel size to convey a feeling of depth.
I think it's not that bad ^^

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Hey, it's not that bad! 😁

I'm still trying to figure out the overall look of it, but I want to go for something miniamlist. I feel good about this for now ^^

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My creative process is pretty consistent:
- postpone starting because I'm nervous it'll be bad
- look at tens of references
- start
- it is actually bad
- throw everything away
- take a break for a day or two
- come back to it
- start again
- hey, it's not that bad!

Every. Time.

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Didn't have time to work on Heroic for a few weeks, so I was feeling a bit down about it.
So I decided to launch the game and... was actually quite happy with what's going on so far ^^

Can't wait to come back to it!

Keep on keeping on 👍

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