Our Ghosts of War - Survival Genre World War 2 game needs a couple of environment artists.

Maximum-Dev · Oct 2015

Game Title: Our Ghosts of War™
Platform: PC
Genre: Open World Survival Sandbox
Camera View: Third Person & First Person
Company: Pixel Perfect Polygons
Team Communication: Skype, Email, Slack
File sharing: Perforce
Contact Email: pixelperfectpolygons@outlook.com

"Our Ghosts of War" is a realistic open-world sandbox survival game set in Nazi occupied France in the days following the Allied invasion of Normandy. Inspired by survival games like "DayZ", "Ark: Survival Evolved", "Rust", and "H1Z1", "Our Ghosts of War" is intended to be the greatest World War 2 game ever created.

The first thing we'd like to announce is that we've created the largest, most accurate representation of Normandy, France ever in the history of video games. Using satellite DEM data we've managed to create a 400km historically accurate terrain that is larger than even DayZ. There has NEVER been a more historically accurate terrain in history than the one you will find in Our Ghosts of War. Here is the first preview of that map. You can see first hand how much ground the terrain will cover along with all the towns and locations that will be in the game. We've worked our butts off to make this possible and we really hope you'll be able to enjoy the fruits of our labor very soon.

We're currently looking to bring in two environments artists to help us quickly develop some small prop assets and farms that we don't have time to get to at the moment. In return for your help, depending on your rates, we MIGHT be able to pay you upfront. If it's something you want to throw our way don't hesitate. We'll be in touch and see if we can come to an agreement. We only need the meshes modeled as we will take care of the texturing ourselves. Along with the meshes we would require the normal, AO, and Color ID maps. We would take care of the rest. Our plan is to move very quickly as we'd like to have to "Our Ghosts of War" on Early Access inside the next 6-8 months. We're primarily artists by trade so we can definitely take care of everything on our own but for the sake of time we'd thought we'd throw this out there in case someone was interested in working on this with us.

Other games in this genre have sold millions of copies on Steam. This includes DayZ, Ark, Rust, H1Z1, and The Forest are all million-sellers. We're confident that we can add "Our Ghosts of War" to that list. You can see the sales figures below for yourself. They are taken from SteamSpy.

DayZ: http://prntscr.com/8sm6dr

Ark: http://prntscr.com/8sm61m

H1Z1: http://prntscr.com/8sm5l9

Rust: http://prntscr.com/8sm5q0

The Forest: http://prntscr.com/8sm5vs

7 Ways to Die: http://prntscr.com/8smc46

The team is currently comprised of 7 artists, 3 coders, 1 level designer, and 1 technical artist and we're looking for 1-2 props artists and 1 more coder. Our artists are currently booked making weapons, tanks, bunkers, and obstacles like mines and anti-tank traps. What we'd like help on are more of the smaller indoor assets for the French homes and farms, and interior props like tables and chairs and fences.

ENVIRONMENT AND PROP ARTIST RESPONSIBILITIES

- Prop Meshes
- Buildings + Interiors
- Normal Maps, AO Maps, Color ID Maps
- No Texturing Needed (We'll do it!)
- 10 hours per week availability minimum
- Communication via Skype, Slack, or E-mail

Maximum-Dev · Nov 2015

Change Log v0.0.7

- Players can now host an online game session through non-dedicated servers.

- Players can now search for existing game sessions.

- Players can now join an existing game session.

- Players can now the running session they are in and go back to the main menus.

- Players can now navigate through a very basic main menu setup to host, join, or exit the game.

- Players will find an options button in the main menu intended to hold all controls over the game's settings. Clicking on it will currently do nothing.

- Players can now pause a game while in a running session. From their, they can resume the game or exit the session.

- Players can now host/search for/join both regular multiplayer and LAN games.

- Players now see a "Our Ghosts of War" splash screen when the game is booting up.

- Developers will now see a custom splash screen when booting up the editor.

- Developers will now see the "Our Ghosts of War" icon in Unreal's launcher when they go to select a project to open.

Known Bugs/Issues

- Menus can be easily broken. Current ones are temporary to help aid in testing networking functionality.

- Searching for sessions multiple times will result in crash. The search button will need to be disabled while a search in progress.

- Game cannot be packaged in Shipping for Windows 64-bit. Currently investigating possible solutions.

- Client cannot quit game. Only the server can.

- Options button on the main menu does nothing when clicked.

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Change Log - Alpha 0.2.3.1234

- Developers now have access to a full VXGI engine build via Dropbox.

- Developers now have access to project files updated to account for the beginning works of VXGI.

- Developers now have access to a full HBAO+ engine build via Dropbox.

- Developers now have access to project files updated to account for the beginning works of HBAO+.

- Developers now have access to a set of helper functions covering player names, IDs, session info, session searching, and other misc info.

- Developers now have access to basic friends interfacing.

- Developers now have access to basic voice interfacing.

- Developers now have access to REST API functionality with ability to interact with Parse.

- Player characters now have hunger and stamina components.

- Player hunger now goes down at a fixed rate.

- Player stamina now decreases during sprinting.

- Player stamina now regenerates when not sprinting.

- Player's max stamina is now effected by the player's current hunger level.

- Player characters now have five hunger states: Starving, Weak, Normal, Full, Overfeed

- Player's max stamina now will decrease to zero when the character is starving.

- Player's running speed is now decreased at weak and starving states.

- Player's now have more max stamina at a full state.

- Player's XP rate now decreases when the player is hungry.

- Player's health now goes down when starving.

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Hello everyone. Small update. We are now looking for one character artist. Your responsibility will be to make a character without clothes, two different heads for that character, and American and German uniforms for that character. If you'd like to figure something out please get in touch with us at: PixelPerfectPolygons@Outlook.com.

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3/28/16 update

Hello everyone! Lots of things to update!

I hope everyone had a fantastic GDC! The goal of today's update is to get ya'll up to speed and give you all a bit more information about how we're moving forward with it.

First of all, we're looking to launch Our Ghosts of War Steam Early Access launch sometime in August. That should be far enough removed from the Steam Summer sale for players' wallets to have healed and early enough so that we don't get steamrolled by the Fall and Christmas releases.

We're aiming to launch with 78km2 of accurate Nazi-occupied Normandy, France. Every couple of months we will add to the terrain size of Our Ghosts of War and make the game bigger and bigger. A typical game like this in AAA would have a two year development cycle with a full budget and that would still be considered rushed. A three year development cycle is more reasonable and so how we will move forward through Early Access and to the final release of Our Ghosts of War is going to be based off of a three year development cycle. This 78km2 terrain is already in-engine and using the Road Editor Plugin (https://forums.unrealengine.com/showthread.php?100423-Road-Editor - This thing is fantastic. You should really pick it up!) we're going to be placing all the roads to accurately match the roads as they were in 1944 based off old maps.

So when we play Our Ghosts of War, not only would players experience 1944 Normandy, France as created from DEM Satellite Data, but the roads will be EXACTLY the same as they were back then. This IS going to be the most accurate depiction of Normandy, France in the history of videogames! I can't reiterate how important achieving this is to me but we're all on the verge of getting it exactly right. We're waiting on the 4.11 VXGI build from Nvidia to come out before we put the roads into the project but the roads should be taken care of in a week. We'll have screenshots for you as soon as they're in the project. Considering we're picking up Steam now it's best to keep everyone updated as much as we can.

Throughout the rest of this week I'll update you on the team, how the game is intended to work, and other points of discussion as it relates to the project. Here is this week's coding update.

Our Ghosts of War Change Log - Alpha 0.5.2.1366

- Work on UI framework 2.0 for Our Ghosts of War begun.

- Widget reworking on the main menu begun.

- Initial backend folder structure cleanup work complete.

- Custom widgets supporting GOW's horizontal, vertical, and menu bars created.

- Style's interfaces cleaned up for easier swapping of UI elements.

- Access to UI functionality extended into Blueprint for quicker prototyping and iteration.

- General bug fixes and performance improvements in prep for OT1.

- Implemented layered tiled UI

- Began laying out main menu based on designs

- UI framework improvements regarding tile clicking, animations, and placement.

- Implemented modular vertical content bars, currently used for selection menus.

- Psuedocode / planning for Faction Component (how AI will know if they should combat each other, players, be friendly, neutral, etc.)

- Psuedocode / planning for Aggro System (what makes an AI aggressive - a calculation of damage received from a specific source, current line-of-sight with an enemy source, and current distance to that enemy source (weapon types will affect this)

- Added way more information to the design docs

- Revised some class information

- Began to define player progression

- Researched a ton of AI resources around the UE4 community to try to save time in overall development. Cached documentation and videos for future reference and use.

- Began to define how to get AI to dynamically swap its EQS query context (who we're testing against). This allows for AI vs AI encounters and open the flood gates for new possible game modes.

- Updated the AI detection system (where AI can "see" other players / AI in their proximity and line-of-sight).

- Tweaked the patrol behavior (where the AI moves to a node, then spawns a new node within 5 meters, then moves there, repeat).

- The start of an "Enemy Aggro" system. The enemy will calculate damage taken, distance from each enemy, and if that enemy is within line-of-sight, then calculate these factors into a score. The higher the score, the more threatening the enemy.

- The AI is now aware of when it's been shot. It stores this to memory and begins to calculate a score of who is the most "threatening" to them.

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Maximum-Dev · Sep 2016

Hello. Still looking for artists to help. Shoot a message if you have time.

Maximum-Dev · Sep 2016

You can see more progress on our game here: http://polycount.com/discussion/154030/ue4-our-ghosts-of-war-world-war-2-adventure-game/p1

skyboyfly · Sep 2016

Maximum-Dev said:

Hello. Still looking for artists to help. Shoot a message if you have time.

Wouldn't mind to help, I would prefer paid profit sharing, such as a percent. I use blender, and for normal maps I use ZBrush. (I am fairly new to game making, although, I'm obsessed with game-play design (Litterally no joke, I have a 'Unhealthy obsession" As I have literal books full of game ideas from years) And I know how to make everything low-poly as possible. My skype is: skyboyflie

FYI, personal info, I am 16, and go to MVCTC, For digital design, and I am Eastern time Zone

Maximum-Dev · Sep 2016

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDnDMK6DY9o

Fog of War is a system that makes it that players must actually explore the game world before the map reveals to them what's there. So all the players on one team exploring a game level will fill out the map for that level for all the players on their side.