It's been a while since we last posted, so it's time for a quick update. While most of the interaction and fighting in Masters will be with and against human characters, the player will also occasionally face supernatural creatures. Today we present a mixture between a pit bull and a bat.

During the past few months weaEUR(TM)ve been doing a lot of R&D and generated many assets, scripts, effects and other elements. Now is the time to structure and organize the project, tieing together everything we have so far and getting our content production workflow ready for prime time.

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Our character workflow series continues as we dive right into rigging and skinning. We mentioned previously that itaEUR(TM)s important to leave some room between the various geometry elements in order to avoid interpenetration. In the case of our character this proved to be important indeed as you …

Maybe youaEUR(TM)ve previously seen some cool Nvidia demos with awesome looking hair and wondered why hair in games never matches this quality. To put it briefly, games have a whole lot more processing to do than just character hair. Tech demos typically focus on a single feature and throw a comput…

After some trial and error we have come to the conclusion that itaEUR(TM)s best to build most of our scene geometry using a number of building blocks, such as wall or floor pieces of a fixed size. These small entities are easy to control and can be modified at any time. When instancing the pieces, …

Last week we showed you various texturing stages of our villain. He was missing the head then, so letaEUR(TM)s take another look.

The head and face are prominent areas of every character, therefore special attention and care must be taken when preparing UVs and painting textures. We typically spend …

Typically, artificial intelligence in video games does not have a lot to do with aEURoeintelligence.aEUR? The algorithms are carefully hand-tweaked to the gameaEUR(TM)s scenarios and made aEURoegood enoughaEUR? to provide a decent challenge to the player. The problem with this approach is that the …

We are in the unique position of having someone with an architectural background on our team. This is a luxury few game developers have, and so it was obvious which of us three would be responsible for environment and level design.

The building complex in Episode 1 will be one of the first things pl…

Today weaEUR(TM)ll briefly touch on a few technical details regarding character modeling for games. When creating a 3D character model, there are various aspects to keep in mind before passing it on to the rigging and animation department. Of course, some of your main concerns as a character artist…

A big focus in Masters will be the playeraEUR(TM)s ability to cast spells. In order to do so, the player must draw a gesture into the air, the game will recognize the gesture and cast the appropriate spell. For gesture recognition we make use of a custom-coded vanilla neural network. This is a mach…

Hello readers,

To start off this blog, let us give you a quick introduction to ourselves and to our game.

We are a team of three and have been working together for 4 years. What makes us unique is the way in which we augment each otheraEUR(TM)s strengths to form a work force thataEUR(TM)s incredibly …