Survivor:Forgotten World ( Open World Survival RPG)

[joebrammer]

Update 2
Added the First weapon/Tool you get at the beggining of the game After doing the starting Tutorial to get used to the game mechanics

Hey Alvarofer, is that weapon meant to be wooden? It's incredibly shiny and smooth for wood, do you know how to use normal maps, you should give them a try, especially for such an important part of your game.

[Adrenen]

Hey Alvarofer, is that weapon meant to be wooden? It's incredibly shiny and smooth for wood, do you know how to use normal maps, you should give them a try, especially for such an important part of your game.

Specular map will also help, metal part needs to be more shiny while wooden less.

[alvarofer0021]

That model is from way back when the whole project was starting , we alredy reemplased that weapon with a proper model as well textures

[XilenceX]

oh sorry about that ill fix them in a while

and for our day and night cycle we use a custom light class ( strongly based from the scripted day and night cycle one of the UDK users posted in the WIP forums but cant remember right now exactly)

and thats pretty much it linking it with the Sky_DayCycle shader so we can have controll over the sky effects as well weather

the light class is just based on an dominantdirectionallight with some custom functions to manage rotation,effect interpolation etc

Hope thats the answer your looking for!

hmm no unfortunately I didn't get much of that. Atm I am mainly interested in the performance side of the dynamic lighting. How did you get your open world with vegetation to cast dynamic shadows without killing the framerate?!?
I guess the custom light class may have something to do with it but I can't find that WIP thread either... So could you please explain what settings your dominant directional light uses? Also do any of your light class changes/light functions improve performance? If so I would be VERY interested in seeing them as well. ^^

[alvarofer0021]

When i was developing the day and night cycle ( as well part of the terrain ) i had opened a tread to get main advice you can check about it here

http://forums.epicgames.com/threads/...best-practises

And about the custom light class

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMa3SmuPv-U The video has a link to the pastebin with the code as well the author

its the same as a dominant directional light except it has its own movement, and gets the sky material and changes various parameters based in time etc to simulate the whole day and night effect

and make sure to vote for us as Indie of the year over indie db!

http://www.moddb.com/games/survivor

[XilenceX]

When i was developing the day and night cycle ( as well part of the terrain ) i had opened a tread to get main advice you can check about it here

http://forums.epicgames.com/threads/...best-practises

And about the custom light class

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMa3SmuPv-U The video has a link to the pastebin with the code as well the author

its the same as a dominant directional light except it has its own movement, and gets the sky material and changes various parameters based in time etc to simulate the whole day and night effect

and make sure to vote for us as Indie of the year over indie db!

http://www.moddb.com/games/survivor

thanks for the info. I voted for the game and you have a PM. ^^

[mooror]

The concept looks good. Great work.

[alvarofer0021]

We made it to the indie of the year top 100 as upcoming Best RPG!!!! Thanks for everybody who voted for us also here is a small new update




Here some WIP images of the progress on the landscape and vegetation,
we will post more of our world soon, when our rocks and foliage are polished enough
(images here lacking both, dont judge too hard ; )
Ah, and also a Kukri, which will be a findable weapon.


Also a big thanks to everyone voting for us - we got nominated for
best Indie-DB upcoming/unreleased RPG of 2012!
That means a lot to us and please continue voting for Survivor: Forgotten World!

[XilenceX]

Also a big thanks to everyone voting for us - we got nominated for
best Indie-DB upcoming/unreleased RPG of 2012!
That means a lot to us and please continue voting for Survivor: Forgotten World!

Congratulations for that and those mountains look quite good already.

[slader166]

Any Updates?

[alvarofer0021]

Yup!, we recently got an concept artist and a Character modeller , after the character is done and properly rigged to the UDK Skeleton we will finally be able to record most of the features

since most of the core gameplay is done aka ( you can build structures,weapons degrade,crafting is done,player needs alredy work etc etc) we are mainly polishing what we have so its presentable

here is also a WIP pic of some of our foliage assets we are mainly trying to gather some feedback so feel free to write here!



also the concept of one of our First characters ( we are aiming for 4 characters in the campaign 3 male , 1 female , each character has its own skilltree)




Concept done by the talented Elwira Arkanov

[alvarofer0021]

Some new content!


WW2 Assets







Dialogue System ( image compression lowered quality too much)



Our new update should come by wensday

[FraktalZero]

Everything is looking very good. My only small critic is that the character looks too clean. Maybe a little more ravaged and dirty would suit the game's theme better. Good luck!

[alvarofer0021]

Thanks for your feedback Fraktal, This was the first iteration of the character mainly to use as base for the character modeller, Of course the in-game model will be more ravaged / rusty

[alvarofer0021]

HUGE ! Update over MODDB

http://www.moddb.com/games/survivor/...ld-screenshots

Or you can just see the screenshots here



(Full / Much bigger version here )

http://img560.imageshack.us/img560/2914/10810551.jpg



Full version here

http://img545.imageshack.us/img545/3378/59152569.jpg



Please note that you can log all the trees/palms ingame, which is a huge effort on the development
side to make that possible. You can cut a tree on the bottom trunk and it will fall over properly.
You could potentially rode the whole Island



The Island is huge, but we still need to fill most parts, theres a lot of work to do.

As always, we only present a minor part of what has been done in the last, because there is just too much. Here are some parts from our Interface:

Notification Frame:



Our sleek quest notification (WIP):
The text is only placeholder for presentation.



Our mode selection. There will be different modes to play, even more than you can see on the
Image. But we are not 100% settled with them so far. With the base game, there are tons of
possibilites, per example; with slight modifications you had a "Slender" like mode, or a Zombie Survival.



Full version here

http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/2...eselection.png

That was it for this update -

Thank you for looking into here, also check out our image section and our features
section for more information!

Please comment on our work, tell us what you like and what you think needs improvement,
we are happy to read about your opinion, and we will do a better game with your Input!

[TheAgent]

Great work, cant wait to play something like this, keep it up man!

[alvarofer0021]

Thanks a lot TheAgent!, Hopefully our alpha comes some day arround this year, we are at the moment where we are just mainly waiting for the level to be finished and the first character and enemy set to be done

since most of the gameplay is functional alredy

[madaboutagmes]

Looks good but whats the difference between this and dead island if it had zombies

[alvarofer0021]

If you gave a proper read to the game then you would alredy know

Player Needs,Structure/Building system, Specializations, Wound System just to name a few of everything we got done so far

While i can see a similtude since both games are set in an island theres no way it could be tough that " there are no differences if it had zombies instead"

Survivor is Esentially a Survival game, not a zombie slaher or similar

[XilenceX]

It's awesome to see this project comming along nicely! I'm especially jealous of the level of quality for the vegetation you are creating! Any chance of some wireframe shots for those trees? ^^

[alvarofer0021]

Thanks! Pretty much all of it has come from one of our main modellers (Vaggelis ) he has a lot of experience with it since he worked in iron Front:liberation

And about the wireframe shots , once our server is setup back ill ask dex to setup a few for you

[Frankzta]

hello alvarofer0021, your work looks beyond excellent at the moment, i cant wait until its released or even a demo version, i used to play Stranded 2, and it was a great survival game but not a lot of things to do, then i started on minecraft but that got boring over the course of a year, but then i came across this forum, and i have been folowing your progress for the last 3 months, everything is looking great, just a few questions if you dont mind. is there going to be like Dangerous and non-dangerous animals and creatures and things like showed in stranded 2, or is it just all standed animals that are non-dangerous. also cant realy be bothered to read back thru the hole forum lol, but is it goign to be designed as a downloadable game or a in browser game?? and will it be set to have multiplayer aswell?

Keep up the great work

[alvarofer0021]

Its going to be a full game released trough steam and gamersgate ( implying we get trough greenlight )

Multiplayer is included with competitive gamemodes and Co-Op, there are dangerous and non dangerous animals, theres also an cannibal and non cannibal tribe, WW2 left overs, and a " Entity " that haunts the island and Thanks!

[Frankzta]

is there going to be a bit of ingame footage to show us what its gonna look like?? id love to see how it is ingame, if ur able to do so atm, and one more thing, i seen the island map, will it be set like 1 island??/ or 1 island then do certain things then travel to next place, E.g like in stranded 2, or will it be a huge map with multiple islands and free roam??


cant wait for game hehe lol

[aRKENz]

Hi guys!

Just registered to tell you how much I am in love with this game concept and what I have seen so far. It is, in my opinion, the best WIP based on the UDK coming from an amateur studio. Never give up please, I would love to play this little gem once it gets ready. Also, do not rush it, polish it as much as you can and do not disappoint.

I really thought about investing into your project, money-wise or with my skills (I am a WebDesigner, UI/UX-Designer & Graphic Designer), in case you need anything

[Frankzta]

hello again alvarofer, hows things coming along?? im keen for some more update footage lol,
i would lend a hand but, i dont know how to use the programs hahahaha lol,
cant wait, best of luck