[WiP] UDK project Ether

[White Paper Games]

Cheers Mark!

Where about in Cheshire are you from? Are you a game dev? You should come along to our local developer meet-up if so

[Borland366]

i'm amazed this game looks very profesional.

sorry if my english is bad.

[Derp]

Glad to see this is still going! I hate to see projects stop and never meet their end goal

[Private Tux]

Interesting project mate. Keep it up and tell me more informative about this game.

[White Paper Games]

Oh wow! Lots of feedback guys! Appreciate it!

@Borland thanks for the kind words. We're trying to push the quality through. Considering where a small indie studio, we'd rather take the time getting the quality through rather than rushed.

@Derp Thanks! Sometimes hard keeping that drive going over a year but we're making sure we finish it since our first title as a studio, needs to be awesome !

@Tux Android We have a few more videos planned to showcase some more gameplay so we're definitely trying to keep everyone up to date. Along with taking on board any feedback that we get from the forums!

[White Paper Games]

Another Dev Diary!

[White Paper Games]

And another! (Can't put more than one a post!)

[White Paper Games]

So we realised we’ve not posted must development work recently so I’ll do my best to update you as to where we’re at right now!













The 4th (and final) level is well underway with development. Pretty much finished the blocking phase, just needs some gameplay and prettiness now!

1st,2nd and 3rd levels all have working blockmaps and pretty much have all the gameplay in there minus a few tweaks from play testing here and there.

OJ has also been working hard on the interiors of the levels:





Hopefully you can start to see Ether coming alive with all the personality OJ has been throwing into the scenes.

Apart from that development is in full swing! We have James Burton on board now which we’re really happy about. He is a really talented technical artist and will be doing all the in-engine techy work along with some modelling and texturing to help OJ with the mountain of work there is to do for Ether.

We’re hoping to hit a solid milestone for the game in the next few weeks so we’ll keep you all updated!

As always, thanks for checking our work out and feel free to leave some comments and let us know what you think!

Pete

[Private Tux]

Looks fascinating with the modelling progress (from photos #1-6), the interiors (from photos #7-8) and...

@Tux Android: We have a few more videos planned to showcase some more gameplay so we're definitely trying to keep everyone up to date. Along with taking on board any feedback that we get from the forums!

...thanks for letting me thus far. It would be cool though as a part of your plan with your teams perhaps. Keep it going!

[White Paper Games]

Thanks Tux

We will do our best to keep updating progress. Sometimes time just slips away from you and we forget to update. We have a pretty big milestone coming up soon so hopefully we can showcase much more of the game. Thanks for keeping interest!

[reinrag]

Really nice, first time i saw a project like that made with UDK, really good job mate, keep up the good work

[Hellclown]

This has become a full on game since my last post, keep up the fantastic work.

[White Paper Games]

Cheers Reinrag! We're definitely trying to do something a little different so glad that you think so

Thanks for checking back Hellclown! Keeping the drive going, once all the art work starts to be implemented the game really comes together so hopefully lots more work in a shorter space of time!

Appreciate all the kind words guys!

[reinrag]

Well you deserve those kind words that's some good job you been doing

[punkvideo3d]

Cool work man!

[Hellclown]

So... What's happening with this?

[White Paper Games]

Hellclown, thank you for your interesting and kicking our butts into gear, it helps when we know people are following and wanting updates, keeps us going!

So here it is! Our Teaser Trailer for Ether!! Please, let us know your thought and if you're on social websites, be sure to share and link us We'd appreciate it lots!



Here's the dedicated website for Ether also http://ether-game.com/index.php

And a fresh page for our Facebook followers to follow https://www.facebook.com/ethermemories

We'd love to hear any feedback, and like I said before, thank you all for still checking back and seeing what we're up to

[Razorb]

Really awesome work everyone at WPG! the QR code stuff looks really interesting and I love the art style with that music! very interesting indeed

[White Paper Games]

Too kind Razorb! Looking forward to seeing more Lunar Software updates coming soon! Excited to see them

[Private Tux]

Nice trailer. Can't wait to play it.

[White Paper Games]

Thanks for the continued interest Tux!

[White Paper Games]

Thanks for the continued interest Tux! We're working hard on it!

[White Paper Games]

Hey guys!

After a crazy couple of weeks post-trailer release we've finally got back in to some kind of routine. Work is back in full slow and should hopefully have some nice environments (and gameplay!) to show soon.

Our artist did a quick video showing the process of creating some concept art from a UDK blockmap so please check it out if you're interested!



We've also put two tracks up for download on the main WPG website if you wanted to download them

Thanks for all the feedback through the different channels! We really appreciate all of it and keep us pumping out the work!

[ThePriest909]

Great video and great art style.
Love the environment and the mood of the game. Very inspirational.

[aRny]

brilliant concept work, its interesting to see the process from start to finish and end with a comparison. good job

[White Paper Games]

Appreciate it guys! Really liking the look of Lethe and just come across Critical point from your signature aRny! Very cool stuff!

[Hellclown]

Damn. I want this game.

[White Paper Games]

Woo! Thanks Hellclown! Seen a some of your DM work! Awesome stuff, thanks!

[White Paper Games]

Hey UDKers! We've finally got our game up on Steam Greenlight so for those of you that have been following the progress (or people that have just come across the thread! ) we'd love it if you could upvote us on Steam. We need all the votes we can and its a pretty competitive marketplace as you've seen from the submissions so all the votes count

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfile...148&searchtext



Thanks again for all your support in the forums!

[Beno09]

Great looking guys, hopefully it will make way through Greenlight and Steam.
Good luck

[White Paper Games]

ahh cheers Beno

[stevelois]

Awesome work, love the assets, music & atmosphere

Hope you get lot's of vote !!!

[White Paper Games]

Thank you so much Steve! It's an awesome thing hearing that coming from you Huge fans!

[MarkG85]

Really impressive work guys. Glad to see the North West is represented by a talented team (y)

[White Paper Games]

Awesome, didnt know you guys were in the NW too! You should come over to Game Dev North in Liverpool which we co-host! Its a local industry event where loads of Devs get together causally!

[White Paper Games]

Gameplay trailer is here guys!



Still working extremely hard on Ether One, would love any feedback you UDKers have to offer

Thanks for checking it out!

[Hellclown]

Welp, that's sufficiently creepy. Still can't wait to buy this game.


Added some free advertising to my signature, I can't buy the game so I might as well do what I can to help out.

[Razorb]

More updates guys! everything is looking awesome! <3!

[White Paper Games]

Hey guys!!

Apologies about the lack of updates recently, been extremely busy trying to get lots of content out for you all to check out. We've hopefully got some interesting things in UDK to show you lined up! We're making a huge push for Greenlight at the moment so hopefully these updates and some more releases in the near future will do just that! Thanks for everyone checking out the thread so far! Lots more to do though

The Case (HUB)



Trees in Ether

Link to blog




Again, thanks so much for following the progress so far. We're nearly up to date showing you what we've been working on but we have some very cool stuff coming soon!!

More detailed information on all the stuff we're working on is on the blog so be sure to check it out!

For those of you that haven't, please check out our Greenlight page if you like the look of the game! Can't do it without your support! We're working flat out at the moment to try and get that all important Light!!

Thanks guys!

[Phen0mM0dz]

How are you making these topviews? I would love to know so that I can have a more effective way to plan out my maps.