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Hello fellow earthlings! As time flows on, so does Fray’s progress. Last week was pretty busy as we continued to work on level design and art production. Also, as we discussed in our last update, we did the game’s motion capture at Quantic Dreams studio last week, and it was… entertaining!

Motion Capture:

We had an intense day of Motion Capture shooting on Friday, and it was a lot of fun torturing our poor lead programmer. Indeed, we got to push, shove, pull, hit, throw and punch him in all directions, all the while having a huge smile on our faces. Working with Quantic Dream on this was really great, as they were very professional and always had solutions for any small issue we had. We can’t wait to get to work on the animations and adding them in the game.

The images above are just a teaser for an upcoming making-of video I am currently working on that should be ready in a couple of weeks.

Playtests:

As I told you last time, we are preparing some playtests for the game. These are internal, with only a few people coming over to try the core gameplay mechanics, but they should enable us to spot issues early in the dev cycle and correct them before they become unchangeable.

Our game designer, David, has written a piece on the methodology he will be using to test the game mechanics, and we hope this will be useful to other designers, that you can read after the jump !

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To celebrate the introduction of French gastronomy to world heritage list (and who doesn’t enjoy baguettes, crepes and snails???), here is a progression update to show you guys some of the buildings we are working on for one of the maps in the game, and also let you listen to an extract of the music for the same level.

We are currently working on the level design and fine tuning the gameplay in order to show you screens and vids towards January, but here is a sample of things to come!

For the music, we have been working with the wonderful guys behind the band “Washing Majazzz”, and after long discussions, sound tests and brain storms, they have come up with an electro-opera track that fits perfectly with the environment, the gameplay and the backstory. Here is a sample of the track, please note that the mixing isn’t final, but it will give you a close enough idea.

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The models were created by Bertrand and Claire, our environmental artists for an urban environment map, and the building designs were both inspired by the concept art we have shown earlier, and real-life material. We are presenting them in their untextured form, and we hope that you will enjoy.

So what is ahead of us in the next few weeks? We are going to be filming the Motion Capture next week, so get ready for a video showing 13013 doing stupid stunts and probably hurting himself. We will also do our first internal playtests on the game to stress test our game design (we will probably do a more methodology oriented post on this subject later on), continue post-prod on the teaser trailer and of course work on the level design!

Don’t forget, you can follow us on Facebook and Twitter, and of course, track this game on IndieDB here.

Take care!

We have been busy little bees, working heavily on the game… Our team has gotten larger, with 2 new 3D artists, an assistant Game Designer and another Programmer, bringing us up to 9 on-site in Paris, and the game has grown steadily since last time we posted. We have started receiving artworks from The Designer’s Republic (right now working on a hot game logo), some music and the first weapons, pew pew pew!

And now for something completely different.

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Hello people !

We haven’t posted much in a long time, as we have been really busy working on the first playable environment in the game and a short movie we are creating as a teaser trailer. Can’t really talk about it yet, only that our fake programmer is directing it and it should be a blast if all goes according to plan (has anything ever worked out that way?).

The environment in question is an urban combat area, and although we aren’t yet ready to show in-game footage, we are happy to share with you some of the new concepts by Vincent. Once again, he has managed to capture our ideas and translate them into visuals perfectly.

We are also happy to announce that we are working with The Designer’s Republic (the graphic designers behind some of the visuals in the Wipeout series) and we are hoping for great things out of this partnership.

And finally, we have officially begun music production with the great musicians behind the group “Washing Majazz” and we will have wonderful ear candy to share very soon !

So, without any further chitchat, here are some of the concepts we were talking about.