Ni'ah - Final Year Game Dev Project

IkraJeena

Welcome to the Ni'ah development thread! Here we will be posting our progress and development through our final year creative project.

Meet the team:

Daniele Kofi Ellimah- VFX/Tech Artist - https://www.artstation.com/ozdani

Kaiyuki Crisp - Environment/Lighting Artist - https://www.artstation.com/kaiyukicrisp1

Kayan Goonathilaka - Environment Artist - https://www.artstation.com/kayan_g

Khang Ung - Character/Creature Artist - https://www.artstation.com/kevin_ung

Kristian Severn-Smith - Props Artist - https://www.artstation.com/stylfbx

Ikra Jeena - Director/Concept Artist  -https://www.artstation.com/ikrajeena

Jamie Van Der Heide- Concept Artist - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamie-van-der-heide-520089215/

Jack Jobling- Animator/Rigger  - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jack-jobling-b09865296/

IkraJeena

Here is a tool made by Dan to improve the workflow of the game building

With this tool you can:
- Cap FPS
- Show Performance Graph
- Transfer thing into folders
- Control and Find Groups
- Select all similar deselect 
- Copy and paste things
-Take Screenshots

https://youtu.be/Ub94EcNfGwA

IkraJeena

Grapple so far. Dan will make the vine become shorter over time so the player will be force to jump off. 

https://youtu.be/EsFb1gFeG88

IkraJeena

Adjustable flock done with VAT

https://youtu.be/HCd0HOJfEAI

IkraJeena

Initial environmental FX testing

https://youtu.be/XB639ino_VM

IkraJeena

Foliage development done by Kai 

IkraJeena

Here are a couple shots of our game level for the vertical slice demo, Kai was responsible for the set dress and lighting.

IkraJeena

Concept iterations for our frizzle plant. I initially decided to mimic the structure of the black bat flower, but the plant looked a little too soft, and we needed something fuller, so we decided to add more structure and petals to make it appear more aggressive. I also experimented with roots and thorns to add more detail to the stem.

littleclaude

This is looking really strong for a final year project. You can clearly see the amount of thought that’s gone into the environment and presentation – the atmosphere and composition are really starting to come together nicely.

Keep pushing the lighting (have you thought about a late evening, golden hour?) the materials. Woudl love to see more small storytelling details in the scene because you’re already building a solid foundation.

Massive respect for tackling something at this scope for a final project. Looking forward to seeing the next updates, how is the character motion coming on? – keep it up!

littleclaude

Hi, any chance of some night time vibes for The Rookies?