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Project Atral: The Riddle of Durendare
3 months ago

A few hard facts about Project Atral.


Here are a few hard facts about Project Atral.

Age Restriction: Due to nudity of Mikhal, it is not suitable for minors. The project is targeted towards adults.

Genres: #Mystery #Horses #Supernatural #Exploration

Gameplay Style: Walking Simulator (seriously, you can't touch stuff as a ghost)

Gameplay Duration: About ~2 hours with exploration and all voicelines.

Open World Size: Approximately 2,1 km² (horse memories excluded)

Performance: Alpha V1.4 runs very well on low class Gaming PCs, but Alpha V2.0 is a bit less performant, due to the weather system using Niagara. Other than that i've put a lot of effort into optimization.

Engine: Unreal Engine 4



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The unsolvable problem in the settings menu caused me to rework it. It's now only accessible by the pause menu. The settings menu got only slightly reworked. The "back" button is bigger and i had to put in a background.

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New contents:

- Stairs to the cottages

- Wooden pillars for the cottages

- Door numbers

- Mini Map frame has a higher resolution now

Fixed problems:

- Newly placed trees are no longer standing rotated. Thanks to @KingCobra1998 for the help!

Part 2!

New contents:

- Floor texture for the insides of the cottages

- Game banner when starting up the project

I've achieved a lot today. The protagonist and player character - Mikhal - is inside the engine and playable! You won't see his head though, because of first person perspective. Time for a pause! My body hurts from sitting around for so long!

The cottages are now done and have been placed into their final positions. What's left to do is fill them up with furniture and make custom collisions.

Despite horrible neck pain, i'm working on the foal model, which is supposed to be in the herd of horses on the island.

Placed a lot more trees and bushes. Placed the tiny hermit hut on Dan's Dot. Worked on the vegetation performance. Next up: texture performance (decreasing resolution, decal ivy instead of texture ivy on the stables and riding hall).

New features:

- Audio settings menu

- Simple day-night-cycle

Fixed problems:

- Double pause menu

- Oversized buttons

The widget of the audio settings menu works fine now, yet the settings themselves not. Working on it!

I have worked a lot on the cleanup of the horse model. It's now ready for UV mapping and then texturing.