There may not be a curfew yet, but the soldiers will still notice two or three where they would ignore one. We do get to play as April a lot more too, which makes me happy.īefore we go outside, let's talk to Na'ane. It was no fun for me, but there is some excellent plot in this chapter so it should be fun for you.
You can check out how good Dreamfall Chapters looks now, being powered by Unity 5's Enlighten global illumination solution.This is easily my least favorite chapter in the game, because it has two very annoying gameplay sequences. On some days, it was hard to get out of bed and find the will to keep moving forward. Every new version of the engine would see improvements in one area, and break the game in two, three, ten other areas. Upgrading from one patch or point release to another would fix one serious issue - say, memory leaks - while introducing a completely different issue - such as broken real-time lights. And we had to deal with a large number of often crippling bugs, some of which persist to this day, requiring desperate workarounds. We had to rewrite all shaders and scripts to work with the new engine. In addition, with every lighting fix in the biggest scenes, we had to go through an eight-to-twelve hour baking process before we could see the final results. This was partly due to lacking, and overly optimistic, estimates on our part, and partly due to countless bugs in the new lighting system.
There was an enormous amount of work involved in re-lighting, from the ground up, dozens of enormous locations - more work that we’d initially imagined, more work than anyone could possibly imagine.
That’s a painful amount of money for a small - and cash-strapped - studio like ours. It ended up costing Red Thread at least $100,000 in production costs - and that doesn’t factor in the loss of income and added costs to Book Four.Īll things considered, the final price tag is probably in excess of $150,000. The port ended up taking a team of 4–5 developers four months, spending at least half their time on the port, working overtime to compensate for the mounting delays. It wouldn’t cost much it was a no-brainer. We figured they could do this on the side while spending most of their time on the next episode. We’d originally estimated the port to take a couple of months for a couple of developers, working part-time on the project - primarily environment artists, who’d have to go over all the lights in the game to re-bake shadow maps.
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