Floatlands

13/03/2018

Working on game weather, cloudiness in this particular case.

12/03/2018

Experimenting with colors for Scorched biome.

09/03/2018

Digital painting concept of how the night scenery will look like in Floatlands.

We present you a timelapse video of a Floatlands world, after dark. Unwind watching Mito Horvat turn a blank canvas into a beautiful nightly scenery. Want mo...

07/03/2018

Floatlands now has a grass solution with full forward shadows and global wind support.

Fresh in-house grass solution allows us faster performance and fuller environment. This video shows you what can be done with the new grass system it aligns ...

05/03/2018

"Earth" is a darker track, soothing and mysterious that will play during nighttime and dawn time when exploring your unknown surroundings. Source: Whelp

Earth is a darker track, soothing and mysterious that will play during nighttime and dawn time when exploring your unknown surroundings.

02/03/2018

Improving our in-house grass solution, Random island placement, the new Armadillo critter and another Floatlands track from .

Video showcase of our grass system, which has full forward shadows and global wind support. Floatlands world generation is still a work in progress - Vili was working on random Island placement and many other things. Armadillo is the next critter to be included in the game. We also started editing o...

01/03/2018

Procedurally generated example of Mainland and nearby ground islands with lots of biomes.

19/02/2018

Mechanical Dog in Floatlands acts as a players best friend and helps him with different tasks. Here is a creation timelapse video, where you can see him being modeled with Blender 3D software.

We present Mech Dog, a mechanical dog in the Floatlands Game that acts as a players best friend and helps him with different tasks. Here is a creation timela...

16/02/2018

A bit shorter blogpost this week, but still visually intriguing with vehicles and armor.

We have reworked the models for the Buzzard helicopter and Deepend submarine. We decided to make them a bit more compact and you'll be able to build them in the game by adding pieces to the basic frame. We also implemented a system where adding new types of armor and skins is now easy.

13/02/2018

Floatlands greetings from South Africa! The winner of our giveaway sent us this lovely photo.

09/02/2018

Busy week behind us - some highlights: Player panel, GPU grass rendering, New biome and Floatlands music.

Player panel is now fully implemented and ready to be taken further. We're also experimenting with rendering grass on the GPU by using geometry shaders. Floating islands will have their own biome - Mito sketched out a concept.

06/02/2018

A preview of Player panel, which shows all the player stats, gear and your PAL (companion) stats as well.