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Artem Ostapchuk of 11 bit studios shared how the team built the terraforming pipeline for The Alters: Last Variable, visualizing alien flora over a barren planet with opaque Nanite cutout geometry, PCG scattering and a global HISM system so every level worked in both its scorched and terraformed states. “We wanted the vegetation to feel alien without falling into generic sci-fi tropes or looking like everyday Earth plants.”  Read the full interview: 80.lv/articles/terraforming-…

Sometimes @FinalFantasy Resonance sprites were redrawn for individual camera angles. The game's producer and director explain to us how “cinematic pixel art” helped transform HD-2D into something worthy of Final Fantasy. “We developed what we call ‘cinematic pixel art,’ a technique used in the opening movie that transforms 3D CG into pixel art. This allowed us to depict things rarely seen in pixel art before, such as Bahamut and airships moving in ways that simply wouldn’t have been possible in 2D.” Full interview: 80.lv/articles/interview-how…

Barış Kılıç explains how he blended Mediterranean architecture with The Last of Us aesthetic in his Mediterranean Echoes scene, shares his trick for distributing polygons wisely, and reflects on the challenge of making a set of custom materials in Substance 3D Designer. “With the main objects and angles set in both spaces, I wanted to add something of my own to the corridor, so I knocked down one of its walls to strengthen the sense of abandonment. I then added mid-sized objects to test the storytelling while still in blockout.” Read the breakdown: 80.lv/articles/building-an-a…

An alleged trailer for BioWare’s canceled Mass Effect leaked online and reveals an older Liara, a new protagonist, and a smaller-scale story. Do you think it's legit? - 80.lv/articles/trailer-for-b…

Respawn and DICE are reportedly developing Star Wars: Battlefront 3. Some good news from EA: 80.lv/articles/respawn-dice-…

Xbox reportedly plans a next-gen handheld and the Helix console, a Game Pass overhaul, and more layoffs, with the console's price projected. Read the full story: 80.lv/articles/xbox-helix-co…

Next Mass Effect was supposed to have "a level of autonomy and choice that no other game has been able to match," according to Tony de Waal, BioWare's cinematic supervisor. But the studio was shut down, so we won't see what was inspired by Larian and CD PROJEKT RED: 80.lv/articles/next-mass-eff…

.@telltalegames's goal for The Wolf Among Us Remaster is to make it "shine without changing the heart" of the original title. Remaster's game director talked about visual upgrades and the revival of deleted scenes: 80.lv/articles/telltale-aims…

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This 2D-like fan art of characters from a popular manga series was made by @chloeworthyart in 3D with Blender. The artist also used ZBrush and Substance 3D Painter to recreate the duo from Green Yuri: 80.lv/articles/these-2d-char…

Survive in an odd city up in the sky where humans live alongside weird, monstrous creatures in this cinematic BioShock-like ARPG. In Ordinary Oddness, you fight your extraterrestrial neighbors, trying to uncover who they truly are: 80.lv/articles/survive-in-an…

Beyond Good and Evil 2 is reportedly still in pre-production 18 years after its first tease, with about 250 people working on it. Here's what we know so far: 80.lv/articles/rumor-beyond-…

Electronic Arts says Fight Night is coming back, and a new open-world American football game is in development. Read EA's full franchise plan: 80.lv/articles/fight-night-r… 80.lv/articles/fight-night-r…

Nearly six years after launch, Cyberpunk 2077 is getting another big update. Update 2.5 finally adds dual-wielding, console mod distribution, more customization tools, and tie-ins for Edgerunners Season 2. Yes, it's all 100% free: 80.lv/articles/cdpr-somehow-…

Tomb Raider helped establish exploration and spatial reasoning as foundations of the 3D action-adventure genre. 30 years later, Crystal Dynamics is balancing that legacy against modern expectations. “We want players to be able to read the environment and intuit where to go through the level design itself, without the game explicitly telling them. The original level design did a phenomenal job at giving players a sense of isolation, and that is something we very much wanted to preserve in Legacy of Atlantis.” Full interview: 80.lv/articles/tomb-raider-d…