GameDev Weekly 22 - 2018/07/17

三连休拖延症爆发… 补一个
题图来自 http://vfxmike.blogspot.com/2018/07/dark-and-stormy.html

Game

Horizon Zero Dawn: Interview With the Team

• https://80.lv/articles/horizon-zero-dawn-interview-with-the-team/
• 看完觉得宣传性质有点多…
• 至少Dungeons部分个人觉得对比设计意图来说结果挺失败的…
• 除了GDC已经介绍过的部分以外，Lighting倒是给了不少细节

The Lead Designer of Monument Valley Deconstructs His Latest Game, Florence

• https://www.milanote.com/the-work/lead-designer-of-monument-valley-deconstructs-his-latest-game-florence
• Mini-games as metaphors
• I try to make games that anyone can play
• You can just get an idea or get a story and then move on with your life
• I didn’t want Florence to look like a game
• 个人非常喜欢的游戏！确实从游戏中切实感受到了上面这些理念
  • 在游戏越来越重量级的现在（特别是时间上），能获得一段不错轻量交互体验非常感谢作者
  • 成功的仅用UI交互传达情绪也让人大开眼界

吹爆Hollow Knight！链接集

• 因为没通关所以都没看，但channel看起来都不错的样子…
• A Critical Examination of Hollow Knight's Art Style @ The Superforge
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IfLmc9ZHt8
• 6 Lessons from Hollow Knight's immersive tutorial @ The Architect of Games
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWiDS8SUvds

Physics

UE4 Physics Based Tutorials

• https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEp7216xGGII6tRXPfxbPGPec1VWRWDSO
• 常见简单机械结构的在UE4中的制作介绍

DD2018

• https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqUbLv3b1v3flMX3RuH59k0YGQKeqrx15
• 又更新了一波视频
• 跟GDC比起来题材不是那么主流但是反而挺有意思的感觉，还有个别标题太玄学的不点开都不知道是啥
• Błażej Żywiczyński - Upgrading the production toolbelt from This War of Mine to Frostpunk
• Laura Kampis - Challenging our established design: how the first Total War Saga was born
• …

TechArt

[JP] Impostor - 偽りの全方向ビルボード！UE4やUnityで手軽に使える用になりました。

• http://3dnchu.com/archives/easy-impostors/
• UE4有ImposterBaker https://github.com/ictusbrucks/ImpostorBaker
• Unity现在有了Amplify Impostors [BETA]！ https://forum.unity.com/threads/beta-release-amplify-impostors.539844/
  • 非常与时俱进地Octahedron也支持了！详见 http://shaderbits.com/blog/octahedral-impostors/

Graphics

Introduction to compute shaders

• https://anteru.net/blog/2018/intro-to-compute-shaders/
• 超简化版GPU Architurecture
• 在latency hiding和branching上讲的挺简单易懂除了术语感觉有点混乱

Swallowing the elephant

• http://pharr.org/matt/blog/2018/07/16/moana-island-pbrt-all.html
• Disney之前公开的moana的asset，用GAE跑了，顺便给PBRT搞了些优化
• 可以跟着体验下production level的数据量及其带来的各种问题