Ghetto Freaks - [Student game project]

duck

Hi my name is Felix Waubert de Puiseau and i thought id show you some art from our last finished game Ghetto Freaks.

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For this project we wanted to create a multiplayer-style game with bots , because of the limited amount of time.
For the artdirection we wanted to have the clear distintion between teams using colors, like in Team Fortress 2, while having a fairly realistic and dirty style.

The game is made in 9 weeks parallel to working with regular school courses. It has a conquest/domination kind of gameplay, where you win by holding the most controlpoints until the enemy lose all their tickets.

All the content is created by our art team for this project only.
The game engine is written enterily by our coding team in Directx10 using C++.
We used Havok for collision and OpenCollada for exporting content.

We are currently working on a extended version of the game while searching for internships starting this summer.

The extended version will have features like:

-Customizing weapons with Silencers, Red dot, Holographic, Acog and Sniper -sights.

-Hidout were you get briefed between campaign missions and pimp out your weapons and use a Quickmatch computer

-New Game modes (CTF,Team Deathmatch etc)

-New Weapons, Characters and Levels


Art team
David marquardt (Art Lead) http://www.marquardt3d.com/
Jacob Christianson http://www.jacob3d.com/
Nils Dücker http://www.ducker.se/
Klas Gylje http://klasgylje.se/
Felix Waubert de Puiseau http://depuiseau.com/

Coding Team
Alexander Loodin-Ek www.looak.se
Johannes Tegnér simius.se
Kristoffer Bohman
Linus Svensson www.linussvensson.mono.net
Johny Dahlin www.johnnydahlin.se

duck

I was responsible for designing, modeling, rigging and animating the characters for Ghetto Freaks.

Adam Curtis

The characters are simply fantastic. So fresh! Great presentation as well, lots of style!

rollin

so you made this whole game from scratch in 9 weeks?!

conte

nice nice job, Felix!
damn huge amount of work to be done in 9 weeks, geezus.
respect to your crew, you did great thing!

MaD

You gotto keep movin' ,

Looks really cool, some of the specs look a bit too hard and the shadows look like they are a bit too dark, but this could be due to video compression. It's just a pity you can barely see the lovely chars you did.

Jungsik

WOW..
Awesome..ill be following dis +_+

Chclve

rollin wrote: »

so you made this whole game from scratch in 9 weeks?!

Yup! And not even full time.
All graphical content was made from scratch. Our programmers could continue working on our 3d engine from previous projects, BUT they reworked a lot of it so it was pretty much created from scratch.

We now have 9 more weeks (about 6 weeks left) to work full time on our game. So alot more content and features will be included

LaSalle

Rarely do I comment on much in the forums...but I absolutely love making games in my spare time with hobby/free/open source engines or doing mod work...having some insight as to what it takes to get a small project together I felt compelled to respond this.
Your models look great, Thy certainly got my attention given your time constraints, and the fact that you guys have something playable in 9 weeks... fantastic Job, please post a demo when you can, Id love to check it out.

Envelope

Love the style keep it up

PogoP

Looks good but your specular is way too high on those character faces; they look really sweaty!

waldo

Yeah, will post installer to the game as soon as it's completed and uploaded. As Chclve said, we have 6 weeks full time to add more features and content to Ghetto Freaks. We will be adding features such as:
Iron Sights
Upgradeable Weapons
Profiles
More Game Modes (DM,TDM,CTF and maybe some more)
A lobby/hideout that will be used between matches to upgrade weapons, get new missions and so forth.

Also a lot of tweaks and content will be added such as smarter bots, more weapons, more levels and hopefully some more tech for the engine.

Two weapons i made for Ghetto Freaks:

kodde

Cool stuff guys
Nice to see you posting your projects here.

curtj5

really looks nice for student work. A+

duck

Thanks alot for all the positive response and crits!

Chclve

A bit of an update. An acog sight as an addon to the weapons.
1760 Tris and 512x512 maps.

vofff

lol imba tactical.

kite

sweet work! really cool characters, good looking weapons too.

Chclve

Thanks kite

Working on another addon. A red dot sight. Highpoly pretty much done. Crits?

waldo

Mini14 sniper rifle, just need to animate it and throw it ingame... Will have a rail added so you can attach whatever sights you want.

waldo

Just finished the Sniper Scope attatchment. Put it on the Glock and added one of the silencers. Anyone knows that a scope on a automatic pistol is totally necessary.. Sorry for the Cgfx mipmaping, blurs the textures out when viewed from an angle, forgot to render at a greater res..

Cap Hotkill

I would not put my face near to that Scope, the recoil of the top slider will hit you in the face :P

But apart from that, Amazing Stuff, love the quality and the details

waldo

You gotta bob your head with the recoil when firing

All weapons will be able to use all attatchments, it's not realistic, it's not practical but it sure looks cool..

Chclve

Give us a render with a silenced sniper shotgun Waldo. The pinnacle of weapon attatchment evolution.

Grimm_Wrecking

Dig the work man, really nice acog.

And the rail the scope rests on that glock actually runs down the sides to the underside of the glock so it doesn't shift when shot, well no more so than your normal scoped gun.
EDIT:
Scoped Pistol Shooting Eye Relief
A tutorial for judging the distance you should keep your eye from the scope. In reality its bad practice even in rifle shooting to hold your eye too close to the scope. Thats how you end up with a shattered ocular cavity, or at least a narly scar (assuming the gun is powerful enough). In scoped pistol shooting you make sure you have clearance between the slide and or the .500 s&w magnums clown like recoil.

Cap Hotkill

I know the Scope is attached to the gun body, but the Slider goes Backwards and will hit your check or your mustache if you are using the scope :P

waldo

Chclve wrote: »

Give us a render with a silenced sniper shotgun Waldo. The pinnacle of weapon attatchment evolution.

Here we have it, the work of a optimistic gangster

fabio brasilien

All artwork are great!!! The only crit is regards the game ilumination...I understand that is is supose to be a dark environment, but I think it is too dark. At the game video is almost impossible to see those amazing characters...:thumbup:
Nice shotgun! At the first moment I saw I thought it was a flail attached on the barrel... :poly124:

waldo

fabio brasilien wrote: »

All artwork are great!!! The only crit is regards the game ilumination...I understand that is is supose to be a dark environment, but I think it is too dark. At the game video is almost impossible to see those amazing characters...:thumbup:
Nice shotgun! At the first moment I saw I thought it was a flail attached on the barrel... :poly124:

Thanks man .. Yeah, we have gotten some crits about the first level being to dark.. will try to brighten up the shadows and primary light..

Evil Flower

This is an MG-34 I've made for the expansion of the game:

duck

new stuffff

woogity

love it duck, awesome stuff, the hair rocks. dig the style of the clothing too.

rollin

quality work!

duck

There is a installer for the game up on our homepage now. go check id out!
Download Ghetto freaks

Nizza_waaarg

woo, dig those clothes man ^^

great style goin on still

JonathanF

that glock with a sniper on it is bad ass! and I don't know what people are saying that its not realistic... you don't actually put your face up to it look through the hole. you hold it mid range away from your face with elbows bent and can see through the scope just fine.

JonathanF

same goes for the shotgun and scope.... ALSO BAD ASS LOOKING! even though you don't need a scope for a shotgun as it has a kill range of what... 20-30 yards?

waldo

We thought about limiting the player to only be able to use the resonable attatchments for each weapon. But this looks more bad ass so we thought, fuck it.. If someone wants to snipe with their shotgun, let em do it

Snefer

I played your game at NGC actually, two tips: GOD mode! I was trying to look at the art, but it was hard when they instakilled you also: If you want a night level, try making a lighter blueish hue, so you a bit more visibility, now everything is so artificially dark. Anyway, great job all around, I was really impressed with your demo! Great work on the characters overall.

waldo

Snefer: Yeah, we have God Mode while debugging but probably wasn't available in the demo. Though you guys from Massive were godlike gamers and didn't need god mode :poly124:

Thanks for the crits, will brighten up the shadows and see if we can add a blueish hue to the HDR. Have been nagging the coders to add a blue tint to the shadows as well.

Since the demo we have tweaked the light from the guns so enemies are a lot easier to spot while their firing.

Moosey_G

I tried to play the game after installation it just gives me a "missing dxgi.dll" error. There is some really wonderful art in this thread, and I was hoping to see it in action! Either way, great work.

waldo

Moosey_G: The game requires Windows Vista or Windows 7 and DirectX10. If you meet both these requirements try updating your graphic card drivers.

Moosey_G

Ah, I see, damn me for preferring windows xp!

duck

woogity wrote: »

love it duck, awesome stuff, the hair rocks. dig the style of the clothing too.

sweet man i fear the day when i have to do a looser hairstyle though.

i think we should add drummags to the game for the all out sprayerprayers.

Rock Bottom

yo amazing man, i think u need some kind of pimp looking gangsta man, now i can finally bust some caps in da hood without gettin wasted fo real hahaha nice work guys congrats keep it up

duck

the Boss character is ingame now!
May add some more detail to the hair, feet and cloth when i have time.

Cap Hotkill

its me or he looks more cartoonish than the other characters? his skin looks monocrome, and grey, he looks more like a drawing.

duck

well hes like a main character, while the others are meant to be repeated. if thats what you mean?

This guy definitely has better anatomy cause when i did the other characters i didnt have the time to sculpt a body, so i built them without anything underlying . thus making them a little off in proportions and stuff.

conte

just try to make the texture more saturated and various in color.
also, need some more love for specular map.

and on your chars, i think their eyeballs are too white(including this boss).
otherwise, it's an exceptional stuff, thank you for sharing it.

duck

conte wrote: »

just try to make the texture more saturated and various in color.
also, need some more love for specular map.

and on your chars, i think their eyeballs are too white(including this boss).
otherwise, it's an exceptional stuff, thank you for sharing it.

thanks for the post
okay! think ill put some greens in dem tattos for complement color, desaturate the red one. saturate the skintone, fix the hair and eyes -color and spec, put som fabric and skin structure in the normalmap.

i dont know, what do people usually do with the cloth in their specmaps?

moof

i dont know, what do people usually do with the cloth in their specmaps?

Depends on the material. Are you using a gloss map? I would use a low threshold with the gloss, and have a low-med spec power that defines the pattern in the cloth.

Otherwise if your spec is applied with a general gloss derived by the material, keep the cloth generally really low on the spec power, but catch the edging and any plastic-y materials in it with some power and definition. Cloth (cotton) has a really low rolloff on specularity, you generally want the diffuse and normal to define it.

Really the best payoff is to have cloth contrast with skin or metal or plastics ie.- this lady

So in contrast to the cloth, I'd up the specularity of his skin, and also give it some more color.