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Our Ghosts of War - A 400km2 World War 2 Sandbox Survival Game Developed in UE4

Zen Davis · 2018-02-06T21:06:21

Hi Guys, We're developing Our Ghosts of War, an open-world survival game in the vein of projects like Ark: Survival Evolved, Rust, and DayZ, but with a World War 2 spin on the genre. As a heads up there is no crowd funding campaign, or a storefront yet, as all we're looking to do at the moment is get the word out about our game and get your feedback on what exactly you would like for this game to be. We've already received permission from the moderation staff about being able to post about our game as long as we add no referral links. Our Ghosts of War is being developed by Pixel Perfect Polygons. We're a 3D artdev company that has primarily operated out of the Unreal Engine 4 forums for the better part of the last 2 years doing freelance and contract work for a number of indie and AAA companies. Eventually we finally got it in our minds to begin work on our game and after laying down the groundwork for what we wanted to dedicate our time towards, production began on Our Ghosts of War. Currently there are 20 individuals involved and working on a host of development assets consisting of art and code. We'll have more about each of these individuals shortly just so you have a clear idea of who exactly is doing what on the project. We'll also be posting regular progress reports from each of these individuals so there is a transparent display of what exactly the development team is up to. Our plan right now is to apply to Steam Greenlight later this year. When it comes to Early Access games some are some are definitely more complete than others. Others are never completed at all. For Our Ghosts of War we have decided to focus on creating a little of everything when it comes to weapons, vehicles, and characters, and put most of our efforts on creating our the most authentic depiction of Normandy, France in the history of video games heading into release. What does this mean for the average player? Well it means that due to having a relatively low starting budget we are forced to make some very hard choices about the content that we intend to launch Our Ghosts of War with. Trust me when we say we're proud of how far we've managed to stretch every single last dollar but even so there are limits to what we can achieve with our current budget. The money we make from our sales will then be invested back into the game to create weapons, vehicles, and other props that we unfortunately didn't have the budget to create at the moment. That said this is what we do intend to launch with: - The most authentic depiction of Normandy, France in the history of video games. We've already incorporated Satellite DEM data to launch the game with 78km2 worth of authentic Normandy terrain. It looks good. It feels real. As we move further into development we will work to increase our map size to an eventual 400km2 replica of Normandy, France. There's never been anything done on this level of scale in videogames. - The most authentic placement of Normandy homes, farms, and roads in the history of video games. We've done a lot of homework already and have managed to track down aerial spy photographs that cover a large portion of the Normandy hills and roads. Using these spy pictures and cross referencing them against Google Maps we can accurately place homes and roads precisely where they were in 1944. The same goes for the roads as will make them 100% accurate to where they would have been during the war. There is no other game that seeks to achieve this level of authenticity. - The most authentic depiction of the Omaha Beach D-Day invasion ever. So this was hard but we've managed to secure official documents of the Germans with the blueprints of every single one of their defensive fortifications and measurements. This means that every anti-tank wall, anti-tank ditch, trench, concertina wire, and more will be created to the official specs of the German army. Furthermore we've painstakingly tracked down the blueprints of every single last bunker that was built on Omaha Beach and are working to create and place them exactly where they would have been in 1944 as the Allied forces invaded France in the largest invasion in history. Research matters. - Twenty launch weapons consisting of handguns, rifles, machine guns, and shotguns. As we earn more from the release of the game we will work to create additional weapons. The currently completed weapons are: 01. 1911 02. Luger 03. Thompson 04. MP40 05. K98 06. M1 Garand 07. Colt Official Police 08. Colt Commando 09. Springfield 10. Mauser C96 11. MG-08 The current weapons being modeled are: 12. MG42 13. Winchester M12 Trench Gun 14. FG42 We should have renders for all these weapons added to this thread sometime this week but this should do as a start. That's all for now. We should have daily updates for you guys starting tomorrow. We're ecstatic about the work we're doing and feel that's among the best of our lives. If you have any questions or feedback please don't hesitate to post and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks for reading!

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Started by pixelperfectpolygons May 16, 2016 10:54 PM

73 comments, last by JumpCheck Community Mgt 6 years, 6 months ago

pixelperfectpolygons

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October 14, 2016 07:05 PM

Hi Braindigitalis,

Thanks for providing your feedback. The hunger and hydration counters are indeed to set faster than normal for testing. The plan is to get these systems in place and then start playing our game as we tweak our settings in order to get our game feeling just right. Initially, we're prototyping all of game systems in a 1km x 1km map we're calling La Forêt, which is french for The Forest. Because our Normandy map is so large it would take some time before players are able to engage each other, we're working on this smaller map in order to get these systems working and playtested.

We do intend to have food and drinks that affect hydration and hunger to different levels however we hadn't thought about having food items that dehydrate players faster. That's a great idea! Thank you for sharing it with us! :)

Today's update: We implemented logic to handle team data involving characters, buildings, spawns points, and more. The idea is to be able to have a class that can distinguish which team a player is on and what dynamically created assets belong to which team. This is of course just a foundation on which we will build our team systems on.

Twitter: [twitter]ourghostsofwar[/twitter]

pixelperfectpolygons

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October 14, 2016 10:05 PM

The Fog of War system now dynamically updates maps: This means you can open the map, walk around in the world, and the map will automatically show the areas you discover. Furthermore, the map now shows objects of interest, such as allies (green balls), and your own position (yellow ball).

Twitter: [twitter]ourghostsofwar[/twitter]

pixelperfectpolygons

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October 27, 2016 06:50 PM

Here're our latest updates to Our Ghosts of War on our Perforce version control. Expect such updates for the foreseeable future.

Twitter: [twitter]ourghostsofwar[/twitter]

pixelperfectpolygons

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October 28, 2016 06:39 PM

Our latest updates for Our Ghosts of War include GPU FX, Fog of War optimizations, and more.

Twitter: [twitter]ourghostsofwar[/twitter]

pixelperfectpolygons

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November 01, 2016 06:19 PM

The plan for the first week of November is to get all the systems completed over the last month together in a single build and see what kind of problems crop up. The feeling is that independently these systems will work by themselves. Put them together and things will start to break. Will keep you updated.

Twitter: [twitter]ourghostsofwar[/twitter]

pixelperfectpolygons

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November 02, 2016 01:34 AM

Interaction is working!

Twitter: [twitter]ourghostsofwar[/twitter]

pixelperfectpolygons

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198

November 06, 2016 09:29 PM

World of Tanks style spotting system is now in development.

Twitter: [twitter]ourghostsofwar[/twitter]

pixelperfectpolygons

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December 03, 2016 04:14 PM

Hi,

Are the hunger and hydration counters set to run faster than normal for testing?

I think at present your player gets hungry and thirsty way too quick and loses too much health because of it. Is this intended for now to demonstrate the mechanics?

I like how it works though. Do you intend for different food and drink artifacts to affect the hydration and hunger to different levels? Also, what about food items that actually dehydrate, e.g. certain powdered foods?

Keep up the good work!

Hello,

Yes, the hunger and hydration counters are set to run way faster than normal for testing. In the real game you'll probably have to eat and drink once every one hour. The food system isn't intended to cripple your character from doing anything like in some other survival games and as such plays less of an overwhelming role in how players experience our game.

Yes, you are also correct to note that certain foods will dehydrate players as well. Inherently we're look to make gameplay as complex and deep as a standard RPG just with-in the context of a survival game experience.

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