[UE4] The Bounds / project louisiana

piotr47

Hey all

Working on a prototype horror walking simulator. Hope you'll like it!

You'll find more screens in the artstation portfolio.

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/xaynW

Right now the first level is complete, we start the playtests today (exploration, puzzle solving, investigation, etc...)

If you have question on the project or on my work feel free to ask!

Cheers

Pierre

piotr47

Hello all!

I'm glad to show you the first minutes of the early demo, as shown for the playtest. We are working on adjusting a few things, but the game seems to do great and the feedbacks are very positive...

Since it is a narrative / puzzle driven game, we don't want to spoil you too much...

All is work in progress.

Made with UE4, Maya, substance painter, maya and Iray.


The definitive demo (2 full levels, 1 epilogue) will be available this fall on itch.io .

Hope you'll like it!

If you have any question, I'm here to answer.

Cheers.

piotr47

First playtests are over, and I'm glad to announce that the level

design, puzzle solving and exploration of the first level is LOCKED!

May thanks to our testers, they were great, very involved!

Now let's take care of the second level!

Cheers0

piotr47

First news about the project on a french videogame site!

https://www.jeuxvideo-live.com/news/...mbre-jvl-90511

As always feel free to follow us on facebook or on twitter. The amount of work is HUGE for our micro team, but that kind of support is pushing us to keep going!

Cheers!

piotr47

When it's too dark and you can't see, there's always hope! You just have to find it...

Let there be light!

piotr47

I've been working on the rain and the outdoors. Starting to seem convincing.

CybranM

The rain on that last pic is really great, sets a nice mood for the scene

piotr47

CybranM said:

The rain on that last pic is really great, sets a nice mood for the scene

Thanks CybranM. It will evolve in the future but the base is here, and I'm happy it does not cripple the framerate.

Technicaly speaking, the goal is to maxout the game, 60fs, with an i5 + GTX970.

Piffles

The rain really sets the mood! It's hard to tell in the GIF but will the rain reflect/cast shadows onto the floors inside as well? I think that'll really sell the scene.

piotr47

Piffles said:

The rain really sets the mood! It's hard to tell in the GIF but will the rain reflect/cast shadows onto the floors inside as well? I think that'll really sell the scene.

Thnaks Piffles. For now, no, it doesn't affect the shadows of the windows.

I just tried 2sided texture and it doesn't do anything. I'm aware it would be gorgeous, but if you have any suggests on how to technicaly do it, I will definitely try it!

Ashervisalis

This looks great! Only thing which stands out a bit is in the first gif you posted on August 17, the bit at the top of the lamp leaves a really sharp shadow that looks hugely unnatural.

The rest of the environment design looks sick. Will be neat to give this a go. Hope there's going to be some really good sound design!

piotr47

Ashervisalis said:

This looks great! Only thing which stands out a bit is in the first gif you posted on August 17, the bit at the top of the lamp leaves a really sharp shadow that looks hugely unnatural.

I totally agree. For now the lamp is not really textured, there will be transparency translucent effects on the material and tehrefor on the shadows...

I'll definitely try to avoid that unnatural feel.

Ashervisalis said:

The rest of the environment design looks sick. Will be neat to give this a go. Hope there's going to be some really good sound design!

I'm quite an audio fan, I'll try my best, I promise you!

piotr47

The struggle is real... @Insomniac Games  #thepuddle

piotr47

We are now playing build 0.2.26. We are working on finalizing the second level, everything works and is locked with the first one.

the team is growing and we welcome Sacha. He's working on the 2nd epilogue (the biggest one!). Some screens of the definitive first level.

See you!

piotr47

Build V0.2.26 !



Hope you'll like it, feel free to ask if you have any question.

piotr47

Spent some time setting up volumetric Fog. Had to rethink my lighting system, but it totally worth it!

piotr47

Working on the second level right now. Setting the mood and the structure, then we'll place all the props in it.

The programation will start next week, but we have experimented everything we need, it'll be way faster than the first level.

piotr47

New room, new cells, new puzzles!

piotr47

Working so hard to bring this second level to life!

Since someone asked me this I'll add the answer here too :

We are a small team (named "Build the Light") with 1 programer, 1 gamedesigner / writer, one trainee 3D artist (models / UV / lightmaps only) and myself doing all the work in UE4, part of the modelling and all the textures. We all work in our free time (I need rest soooooo much! XD).

There is a music composer but he'll work at the end of development, and a new 3D artist since october.

See you soon!

piotr47

Some music this week! The Bounds Main Theme by the amazing Sam Oz.

https://youtu.be/06RGYV_mR0A

piotr47

Hello all!

Building the LAST puzzle ! Working on the User Interface is not an easy thing, so the simpler the better. We'll see with playtests if it runs smoothly.

Ui is in french right now, the translation will come early 2019!

piotr47

Happy new year

We hope 2019 will be great for you.


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See you really soon with updates to The Bounds and Project Louisiana.

piotr47

Long time no post.

Production of the demo is approaching its final stage. I will not talk about release date, but we really try to ship ASAP.

There will be 2 full levels and 2 epilogues (the one you'll play depending on a certain choice). Full playthrough (finding and reading  all documents / checking and solving everything) goes for 1,5 to 2 hours long.

I'll keep you in touch.

Cheers!

piotr47

Here's a little gif, to set the mood!

piotr47

We are really close to the release date, just struggling hard with the translation (the game deals with slavery period and the letters from those days are awfull to translate, I don't have that kind of language ...)...

Visuals are on their final form.

See you soon!

piotr47

We are officialy in debugging phase.

i will have soon a release window.

The road was long but I feel kinda happy with the visuals and production quality.

piotr47

Let's put a gif!

Visuals are 99% def. Debugging is on. The final build is near!

Soon...

piotr47

The Bounds (project louisiana) will release in a couple of week / late May.

Hope you'll play it and enjoy.

I'll keep you in touch.

piotr47

There we are. #thebounds is up on @itchio . https://buildthelight.itch.io/the-bounds French build only for now.

Huge milestone for the team. 1 year of hard work. First released project.

piotr47

ENGLISH BUILD IS UP!



https://buildthelight.itch.io/the-bounds


We hope you'll enjoy it, it was an amazing journey for us, more than one year of work.




Spread the word, the more people play, the better!


We are waiting for your reviews and your feedbacks, polycount!