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Whole new background arts!
🕑 Added 2023-05-20 08:19:59 +0000 UTCSticky :"how to run the game ?", go right here ! Any other questions, regarding access, rewards or pledges ? Click right there
A massive shift, today, with the arrival of... IA-generated environnments!
Since the very start of Sexforge, I've been struggling to get fitting background artworks.
Even aside the VERY limited resources we work with, the dozens of artists I've commissionned (almost!) never delivered adequat materials, to depict the exotic and colorful scifi world we wished for.
Consequently, I had to 'make do' with the unfitting art we got, and bent everything to it : campaigns, game structure, and lore...
There's always countless compromises to be made, in any (ambitious or not) project, admittedly.
Technical, artistic and financial limitations are the very frame we paint in. It's a given.
But this one was ESPECIALLY crippling, walling out every story arcs emerging from our beloved characters, nailing the entire lore into unwanted rails... and emprisonning us, really.
Because we couldn't GO anywhere : we didn't had the background artwork for our destinations, and had limited moves in the few places we got.
Until I started digging into those IA stuff... and was able to finally SEE with my own eyes what I was picturing in my mind since the start!
Dozens of stupendous visions, and surreal places to explore, at last!
I know, I know : IAs are a big debate, for sure.
And they are definitely not perfect : the vibe and style are quite different from the rest of the game, and I can't get the super precise things I want sometimes.
But it feels like a crazy liberation nonetheless!
Freedom... Immense and refreshing freedom...
We can finally EXPLORE, dammit! I'm so freaking hyped!!
So, yes, starting today, I'm implementing new backgrounds to the whole game!
I'll give the possibility to keep playing with old backgrounds for those who don't want to follow this jump, of course.
But future new places will be in the new style.
We're not there yet, there's already a lot of work cut out for me, replacing existing places and adjusting things.
And then there will be a whole lot to consider and think about for what could be changed/improved, and what could come next!
But now, let's just appreciate this ray of sunlight upon Godride, and take the new looks in for a while!
The game can be played downloading and using the "sexforge_test.exe" file attached!
If you experience slowdowns, you can also play the game via a remote link, to be entered in Flash Projector software (choose 'open an url' and copy link as is) : https://sexforge.games/mmo_test.swf?version=20230520
Praise the Wet Light!
