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@Kaenguruu

10 ай бұрын

My take on it is as follows: When you "build" the content of the picture, the game just loads the 3D-Environment by calculating a specific position and rotation to match the perceived positiion of the contents in the picture. While certainly a genious idea, the calculations themselves shouldn't be too complicated. Imagine it like projecting the picture into the real world. The part that I find way more interesting: When the player takes a picture himself, it becomes a bit more complicated, because you need to figure out what part of the existing 3D-Models were visible in the picture and then you have to modify a copy of them to prevent loading more than was visible on the picture.

@sleao_

10 ай бұрын

just wait a while and GMTK will probably have a video on it, trust me.

@missdire

10 ай бұрын

This game is so pretty and fun.

@QIKUGAMES-QIKU

10 ай бұрын

5:36 100% Get it on release time pls.. Beat the algorithms, Your channel hardly shows on my general wall and I am all bells ticked

@benayers8622

10 ай бұрын

we had this when i was a kid mario 64 did this first 😉 lol jk looks cool

Tom walkin onto that bridge 3 times and that perfect cut at the 3rd one had me crying lollll😂😂😂

@missdire

10 ай бұрын

It was brilliant. 😂

@EOE808

10 ай бұрын

Bro 😂😂😂

@snatchontv

10 ай бұрын

lmao😂

@mattking68

10 ай бұрын

It was SORT OF inevitable, but also not. Therefore, even funnier when it happened. 🤣

The feature with the images never, ever gets old. Always jaw dropping

@therunawaykid6523

10 ай бұрын

Easily one of the cleverest features I’ve seen in a game will definitely wish list this game!

@RFC3514

10 ай бұрын

@@therunawaykid6523 - If you like the way it's used in this game, check out Moncage.

Cant remember the last time a game mesmirised me this much. Love the art styles, subtle audio, the picture inception is genius and the transitions are smooth! Would love a live stream of this Tomo

@Tomographic

10 ай бұрын

It really is something!

The really impressive part is at 6:58. The new photograph not only seamlessly turns into 3D geometry, but the pre-existing geometry (the bench) is sliced away to make the transition into the new geometry work.

2:33 aaand wow, that is just bloody awesome. As a coder myself I can't even begin to understand how they put this together.

@EGPuiu

10 ай бұрын

You make everything a building block, like minecraft, then you define how things get to sit on top of each other as building blocks are being placed. The issue comes when big things are being placed as they will need to sit neatly and continue one are into another. But with enough work, voila, this is the result. An amazing game

@cikame

10 ай бұрын

3D models?

@AlecThilenius

10 ай бұрын

There are a lot of REAL clever tricks in this game, I'm impressed. Take that polaroid camera, it has to slice the entire world (geometry, colliders, UVs...) along the frustrum boundaries. That means each volume needs in-fill colors defined, ie. they can't be normal game models which are hollow shells. Instantiating the sliced geometry without any noticeable transitions though, then handling physics and any other entity logic instantiation.... it boggles the mind. And that's before you add in the rewind functionality!

@murtnug

10 ай бұрын

The last ratchet and clank game had a similar portal transition. Very cool

@Paul_Ward

10 ай бұрын

I would imagine there's an awful lot of raycasting involved, but it is way above what I understand about coding that's for sure. I'm still struggling with separating one mesh in to two in real-time (a-la revengeance cutting mechanic)

I ONE HUNDRED PERCENT endorse the idea of Tom reviewing games for us. Your voice is soothing, you are not a hype merchant, and you have JUST enough technical knowledge that you are informative without being esoteric. And humourous.

I can't remember the last time a game had me speechless! Cant wait to see the full game!

@therunawaykid6523

10 ай бұрын

Will definitely wish list this, such a clever game that plays with your mind

@benayers8622

10 ай бұрын

ikr im like 32 n this is possibly best original idea for a game in like a decade tbh.. Also mario 64 was my first ever console and game and this kinda like SM64 HD imo lol :)

Gave me huge Scribblenauts (esque) vibes. I feel like this game is making a new staple in video game development. Such an incredible, unique mechanic.

@therunawaykid6523

10 ай бұрын

Yeah I love the scribblenauts games love how you just use your imagination and pretty much any thing you can think of suddenly appears by typing it in, I love games like view finder such a clever game with a cool mechanic

@markpotter8280

10 ай бұрын

Gave me an Unfinished Swan kinda Vibe. Game looks hella cool

This game would be nice in VR

@Thomahawk1234

10 ай бұрын

Wait how would that work? Maybe if the pictures shifted from 2d to 3d with an effect.

@KasperAS83

10 ай бұрын

Agreed. This looks like Quest graphics anyway. Perhaps it will be ported in the near future.

@RFC3514

10 ай бұрын

The stereo vision would kind of mess up the 2D to 3D transitions; they rely on having a single, very exact viewpoint to be seamless. I guess you could start with a compressed version of the objects and extend them along the camera's z-axis, but it wouldn't look as neat. A cool thing about the effect is that, even after "activating" the photo, you still can't tell for sure whether it's a photo or a 3D scene until you move. With stereo VR, you'd always be able to tell those two apart, even when standing still.

@jericho3161

10 ай бұрын

@@RFC3514 Party pooper

@zwenkwiel816

10 ай бұрын

was thinking the same thing

from the demo alone, this appears to be better at breaking peoples brains than Superliminal. can't wait for full game, immediate wishlist

@tattimbetzakariya4793

10 ай бұрын

Dr Glenn Pierce is still irreplaceable.

Gameplay innovation like this is so rare. Definitely on the level of Portal and Braid.

@b4ph0m3tdk9

9 ай бұрын

Yes, Braid need to mentioned here I agree.

This had me scratching my head for a while to try to figure out how it could be done, at first I thought it was like a ray traced approach where the picture gets projected into the world around it but then there's so many different ways it can behave and you don't know when to stop the projection with that method alone. When the different art styles came into play something clicked, it's easier to imagine the pictures not as 2D images but as 3D boxes that contain that little bit of the world in them. Then, when you put them down, it becomes part of the world and overwrites anything in the way gets removed. That and maybe some other clever tricks would allow most of the behaviour that I've seen up to writing this, super clever nonetheless :)

The idea of the photo becoming real is fantastic. How it turns to 3D in mono is amazing. Then you walk into different styles of painting. This is stunning and something new. I have watched this with my jaw dropped all the way through. Then the instant camera. I’ve seen so many ‘this is the best ever’ videos to find something just rehashed. But this….

I was already in awe at the art style and the game mechanics but Hiraya is such a distinctly Filipino and hearing her speak Tagalog just warmed my heart so much 🥹🥹

@noelkrisansantiago6178

10 ай бұрын

Yeah! I was like "Did she just speak Tagalog?" And had to rewind to confirm, then it hit me that her name is Hiraya. Haha.

"Such a programming flex" Love it!

As a former level designer this even blows my mind this is amazing❤

Loved your video man. Wow This game is incredible. The mechanics are fantastic. I recently finished it and I really enjoyed it

It definitely feels closer to Superliminal than portal imo, the whole chill/jazz aspect with light lore and creative mechanics that keep evolving

@Exrimordonaj

10 ай бұрын

The comment I was looking for! Definitely gives me superliminal vibes.

Games that make you ponder endless gameplay possibilities are the best! Thanks for sharing Tomo 🤜🏼🤛🏼

Immediately stopped watching after you put down the first image and walked through it... to instantly go and buy this game that I had never heard of and play it myself unspoiled! Thanks for showing me this, this is exactly the kind of puzzle game I absolutely love!

This is the most impressive new game I've seen it quite sometime. The combination of excellent coding for this environment and the imaginative use of perspective is VERY intriguing. I'm gonna go all in on this one. Thanks Tom for the introduction.

GGs Tomo. This was great, I hope you do a stream of this. It would be a blast to watch.

Imagine what the Devs of this and the devs of superliminal could make if they worked together 🤯

@mattking68

10 ай бұрын

I think if they got together, the universe might implode.

what a great concept and the transition was so smooth!

A full walk through is a must !

This looks to be a fascinating casual type game! It really is an outside the box bit of thinking! Thanks for sharing.

This is so unique! More as it comes, please!

Dude! This looks crazy cool! New addition to the wish list for sure.

For an indie game studio its awesome. I've been waiting for this game since the first trailer came out.

I found out through your video that it's releasing tomorrow!!!! Im so excited for this.

I'm so excited for this game. I recently played portal for the first time and that was great so I think this is sort of along the lines of puzzle-ish type game with a really unique feature. It's really rare that a game like this comes out just because everything's been made. They have to get so creative now

@b4ph0m3tdk9

9 ай бұрын

You need to play Braid as well!

I just LOVE your commentary ^^

Wow, this game is amazing. The ambient music is so relaxing too.

Seeing this demo gave me both the sense of joy and nostalgia brought by the Portal games and also the Stanley Parable. I can't wait to play it myself but I would also love a Tomo livestream to show us how it's done properly!

@mattking68

10 ай бұрын

Same. And The Witness.

when the picture is taken, pre-configured assets are being spawned into the game world, really simple stuff, no idea why people are so mind blown by this

what a great concept for a game and unbelievably well executed.

While this game is very impressive, the tech and idea is not really new. For whoever is interested how it works (I'm guessing but I'm pretty sure it works this way). So the first part is camera frustum, Imagine the visible boundings of a camera (four planes) extending to infinity that you don't see because they are at the edge of what is visible. now this frustrum is used as geometry (4 mathematically described planes) to cut geometry. You maybe heard about geometry cutting from BSP or Decals projecting. It basically uses the frustrum planes as a cutter to make holes in the geometry. So you end up with the inside and outside geometry. Youbuse the inside geometry projection for the photo. When you apply the photo, it's the same process but after cutting and deleting the inside, it applys the geometry that was cut earlier in the photo. For the portals the principle is simpler, you have another camera that is synced with your movement ane sits in another place (where you teleport), You use a stencil or a screen mask to render only a portion (circle) of that camera, then apply your your main camera render.

The way the viewfinder captures an image was the most interesting part and could possibly be achieved in multiple ways. One way would be to raycast out and detect what is hit and create a photo representation of the data that was hit or perhaps they used a collider which is the size of the viewfinder window and a raycast that detects what is hit and generates a collider to the specific size around the objects that must be copied into the photograph and creates the set piece based on that information. The photo would then just be what was in the viewport at the time the picture was taken which could easily be done with render textures. Basically a rendering of what is seen baked onto a texture.

I never tried indie games up until now and everything in this game gives me so much good vibes and the pastel colour scheme is so soothing and the music is calming and I'll rather play this than any other AAA GAMES OUT THERE

@Ritamkarmakar-ok4uu

10 ай бұрын

@@12feetup so true brother this game is something else it doesn't have the most realistic pc breaking graphics but it does have a artistic style and a character that what make this special too bad AAA developers don't care anymore

7:55 wow, I just sniffed the sweet flower scent from my garden when you picked up that one.

This game looks absolutely nuts. The people who made this game are geniuses

Definitely want to see more of this!

this is like the developers watched Corridor's Photoreal video and improved the idea into full new concept, it's so awesome!

Wow! This game looks amazing. And the transition thru the pictures and teleporters are impeccable!

@therunawaykid6523

10 ай бұрын

Yeah it’s really clever will definitely play this game myself

Wow this game actually looks incredible. Very atmospheric too!

This is how I think that works: 1. The photo is being rendered as a fixed crop of the player screen frame, with the player's field of view but cropped. 2. The frustum shape is being used to cut out the geometry of whatever is in that photo. (Including the skybox) 3. When the player places the photo, the original geometry is being deleted with the frustum and then geometry from the photo placed relatively to the player camera position and rotation. 4. The photo disappears. This is how I think this circle shaped screen works: 1. You're sort of at the same time walking with your camera in a parallel 3d scene, which view is being rendered onto the circle screen. 2. After you press to teleport and after the camera aligns perfectly, it takes a snapshot of what you see. 3. It loads the parallel scene as your main scene, renders it and shows it masked out with expanding circle with the old snapshot in the background. (That's why all the animations just stop.)

2:37 Believe it or not but this is just a simple optical trick. The "photo level" was already loaded when it's in front of you, but the perspective makes it looks like a flat plane. You can tell by looking at the sun's direction inside the photo, it doesn't match the "outside" lighting. Although not hard to do, it's still a very nice effect!

I think the transition is a portal sitting in the kiosk that enlarges and moves toward you, enveloping you to bring you to the next stage.

So cool! Please do a full game walkthrough

These transitions are so clean

That actually blew my mind... and i was still amazed after the 4th time you place a picture🎉🎉

The art style is amazing, I love it.

Love ur vids!!

That was so cool! Very impressive creativity. 😊

The art direction and music is next level. An indie GOTY?!

Please livestream this!! I did not expect Tomo to play this game on the channel! What a pleasant surprise! It's so clean and weird and fun! Also, the beginning where he kept falling from the bridge... 😂 It's okay, Tom. You were distracted. P.S. It's also in VR.

this beautiful piece and battlebit just go to show that we really don't need triple a studios to experience prime gaming. thank you to all the indie devs out there innovating and relating. you are the real ones.

Can't wait for it to drop in the morning 🙌🏽

Woah! Thanks for putting this one on my radar

O_O This is amazing!!!! Thank you for showing it to us. :)

Its amazing how it places right where you put it instead of snapping to a 'near as damn it' point on the surrounding assets

Nice. Releases on my birthday

I love how simple this is made and how amazed people are by the photo mechanic, although they had experienced before, in a smaller scale though. It' s practically the same mechanic as Minecraft, but instead of spawning just a block, you spawn a whole composition of 3d items. The thing is the spawned objects overlap and erase the ones underneath, which I guess could cause a lot of bugs, but it is perfectly executed!

I love it when a review tells you when a game's coming out but not which systems it's on or which subscriptions include it

@ngardnerPV

10 ай бұрын

One quick Google search my friend

Those transitions are soooo satisfying

10:52 “Has to be perfect!” Me: gosh that was not nearly perfect enough

When you placed the one upside down and the battery fell... so amazing. Next portal is right!

i can't wait to see speedruns of this game

photo games droppin´all over the place. i like it!

10:47 Dude, you are not OCDing that game. it’s all misaligned and twisted, and the distances are off. It makes me want to play it even more.

Wow finally some creativity, sign me up, great vid Mr T

The concept of this game is crazy!!

This is absolutely brilliant. Just WOW

keep up the great work love the content

Wow! First time hearing of/seeing game - mind blowing!

This is going to have some insane speedruns

looks pretty good, I’ll be waiting for the Live Stream when the full release arrives.

This is truly amazing and inspiring.

Amazing concept!

Very impressive, original looking game, as you said, it’s reminiscent of Portal, I’ll definitely look out for this one.

Don't worry if your stats show people cutting off watching part way through the video. It's because you've convinced us to buy it and we don't want any more spoilers!!! It's looks amazing and I love the review even if I forced myself to stop 1/3 of the way through. I already feel I know too much and want to save some surprises for myself. Phillip.

As soon as you walked through the first photograph I yelled “portal!” Out loud hahaha

The poweup you grabbed at 13:27 is an actual power up where you can jump higher. This way you could also just crab the battery if you dont want to take another photo of it

WOW! Kid friendly and SUPER Creative! This one should be a hit! NICE!

This game is amazing. Really beautiful, and the puzzles are mind-blowing. For me is a 10

Saw this a few weeks ago and was entranced...... what an amazing idea 🏆

Love this idea. Reminds me a bit of singularity. Just a hint of singularity. Definitely need to get it. Thanks for bringing to my attention.

“Now we know falling doesn’t hurt” this is perfect for SM64 😂

7:54 got shocked hearing the Filipino phrase "Ang Ganda" it's means it's beautiful if your wondering

that is completely insane

If you enjoy such environmental puzzles like this and portal 2, I suggest to play Superliminal - one of my favorite games.

I think the rewind was actually more difficult to implement, than the photo placing it self. I'm not sure how they did the rewind

12:23 I don't know if it's the same team, but this exact mechanic was supposed to be exactly what portal two was, and apparently it was pretty deep in development before play testing made them scrap it as a portal game because "it didn't feel like portal"

2:43 Actually its coded like shoot a raycast when detect the position and instantiate

And this is only the beginning of a whole new range of possibilities.

I'm so happy I stumbled across your account

Amazing piece of art

This is actually nuts

Very interesting concept!