Posts by Vilham

Played this last night.

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I still need to play some of the campaign, only played the multiplayer stuff so far. Its good stuff so far though.

One person here should get this immediately.

Flamingo scene you say? Must be the pink flamingo

If anyone junior is on the fence I can highly recommend you give it a go.

Quote from blackdog

2 hours ago, blackdog said: I have more of a problem with the vertical railings, to me the space feels quite of the right size. Such a wide simmetry looks a bit boring though, door at the end is highly impractical.

Rule of cool

Quote from Bastion

3 hours ago, Bastion said: Gotta have worked on a AAA game before for the level designer role... Damnit.

Yeah sorry, no junior roles for design going at the moment.

Splash is looking for a bunch of positions at all levels, given the mix of professionals and students I figured this would be a good place to advertise them out.

I can highly recommend Splash, it's by far the best company I have worked for so far (Crytek, CIG, Frontier), the company tries to keep employees as happy as possible with loads of events, providing employees with completely open information channels, great benefits and is aiming for The Times 100 (a rating that uses employee satisfaction). The projects are all very interesting and challenging, we have Dirty Bomb and Gears of War 4 multiplayer plus some unannounced projects.

http://www.splashdamage.com/careers

Send me a private message with your CV/Portfolio and Cover letter and I can pass a recommendation forward to HR.

Game Designer - http://www.splashdamage.com/content/job-details?gh_jid=269085

Lead Game Designer - http://www.splashdamage.com/content/job-details?gh_jid=254144

Lead Level Designer - http://www.splashdamage.com/content/job-details?gh_jid=254152

Level Designer - http://www.splashdamage.com/content/job-details?gh_jid=469299

VFX Internship - http://www.splashdamage.com/content/job-details?gh_jid=463651

Character Artist - http://www.splashdamage.com/content/job-details?gh_jid=249369

Concept Artist (Gears) - http://www.splashdamage.com/content/job-details?gh_jid=249369

Env Artists (Gears) - http://www.splashdamage.com/content/job-details?gh_jid=249369

Tech Artist (Gears) - http://www.splashdamage.com/content/job-details?gh_jid=229475

UI Designer - http://www.splashdamage.com/content/job-details?gh_jid=249372

VFX Artist - http://www.splashdamage.com/content/job-details?gh_jid=229474

Tech Animator (Gears) - http://www.splashdamage.com/content/job-details?gh_jid=459105

Senior Env Artist (Gears) - http://www.splashdamage.com/content/job-details?gh_jid=249395

Senior Lighting Artist (Gears) - http://www.splashdamage.com/content/job-details?gh_jid=249395

Senior Technical Artist - http://www.splashdamage.com/content/job-details?gh_jid=263532

Senior UI Designer - http://www.splashdamage.com/content/job-details?gh_jid=221866

Lead Artists (Gears) - http://www.splashdamage.com/content/job-details?gh_jid=249369

Lead Asset Artists (Gears) - http://www.splashdamage.com/content/job-details?gh_jid=243392

Lead Technical Artist (Gears) - http://www.splashdamage.com/content/job-details?gh_jid=222017

Lead VFX Artists (Gears) - http://www.splashdamage.com/content/job-details?gh_jid=243437

Tech Art Director (Gears) - http://www.splashdamage.com/content/job-details?gh_jid=262313

de_thrill is really starting to look good

This is looking great though RZL

Congrats everyone.

So I finished the game the other week, honestly it does some things very well but other things quite poorly.

Spoilers ahead.

Spoiler

Pros

• The audio is excellent, spine chilling and keeps you on your feet even given one of the cons.
• World was interesting and the story was well revealed to the player
• Creepy events were good like the little children things and the head turning skeletons.

Cons

• The game was too long tbh, Took me 12 hours to complete and considering there isn't much going on that is far too long.
• The tower level didn't really act like a hub which is what I was expecting, was expecting to have to setup camp and come back often, never did, its essentially linear felt like a missed opportunity. Could of saved a lot of environment creation.
• Even though the audio made me feel in danger a lot I really never was in much danger. Literally just the orbs which I encountered 3 times I think.
• Too much free food and water safe points for dehydration or starvation to ever be an issue or require me to carry much at all. I think I carried a emergency ration through nearly the whole game.
• Having the torch as an item and not an on/off item is honestly annoying as hell. Having to put the torch away to drop a rock on a button is not something I should be doing. I really didn't feel it served a purpose.
• The text translation thing became tiring fast, I like the idea but it should of started at the beginning of the text and not required me to wait 3 seconds before I can even start reading, considering there are something like 500 signs that's 25 mins of waiting for text to translate so I can even start reading it. No thanks, I basically skipped most of the dialogue after the first 2-3 hours.
• Secrets seemed very random, I probably found about 1/3 of them, but found the green invincibility skull pretty easily. Meaning I didn't level up many perks and even if you did it didn't feel like they really helped much.
• Chests really didn't seem like they added anything considering you could only get a heal item or food from them.

Quote from Daze

8 minutes ago, Daze said: I'm since a couple of months Lead Level Designer (still at YAGER).

Out of interest how did you transition from Senior Technical designer to lead level?

The castle from the outside shot looks ace. Really cool silhouette.

Quote from FrieChamp

9 hours ago, FrieChamp said: Due to some intense RL stuff that came up, I didn't have enough time to seriously work on my Phase 2 submission. It was still fun to do a bit of mapping for UT again. There's some cool-looking entries here - looking forward to try them!

I am in the same boat, didn't have the time to art up a full level with new blockout assets which is what I wanted to do.

The entries look great though. Good luck everyone.

Quote from Buddy

5 hours ago, Buddy said: That is most likely a problem on your hardware side. Game ran solid 60fps though entire lenght for me.

It's a fairly common problem, there's a bunch of threads on steam etc about it. There should be no part of your game where it can go from 50 fps to 1 fps, ever, no excuse. Clearly some combination of elements in that area is causing Nvidea cards to die.

So the solution was to chuck everything on off or low and it finally ran, either the game can't handle that level due to the exterior sections size or its the glass shader being poorly designed.

Didn't bother turning the settings back up after, didn't want to risk getting 1 fps again.

So my game drops to 1fps after the Tram section, fucking ridiculous, completely unplayable.

To be fair the organisation of the assets in UT4 is a bit of a mess. There clearly aren't any consistent standards.