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Enshrouded Showcases How a Blend of Handcrafted and Support from Algorithms Make the World More Interesting

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Enshrouded developer Keen Games has a new behind the scenes video on the game world creation process.

In creating a game world, the choice between procedurally generated content and handcrafted content was something the team decided to blend in order to create a richer and more interesting experience. This team is using a more handcrafted approach, although algorithms support their creations. The video shows off some of the environments, layouts, and other areas in the voxel-based co-op survival action RPG. The use of a blend of technology lets the team have a lot of creative freedom to craft the world and interesting elements and terrain and assets for a more immersive experience. 

Enshrouded’s art director takes us through how they craft the world in the voxel-based system, focusing on points of interest. Part of how they use this process is in crafting points of interest on the map. since points of interest have to be well, interesting, they carry connections to the lore and have to look like they come from a living place. In the video, we see examples of how they make the world feel like it's lived in. In a voxel based system, there are several considerations and the team is showing how their system allows geometry and objects to overlap each other with a clean voxel mesh, as they say. This allows for greater polish and fewer restrictions.

In the showcase, we also see how they can edit the world as needed and make changes to refine the game. Once they've done all that work, they can easily add in extra details if there needs to be more greenery like additional forests or more elements in the biome.

It's an in-depth look at the creation of the game and the world and how the team is meticulously crafting everything with help from technology.

Early Access is coming on January 24th and the team promises more previews between now and then. See more at Keen Games.


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Christina Gonzalez

Christina is MMORPG.COM’s News Editor and a contributor since 2011. Always a fan of great community and wondering if the same sort of magic that was her first guild exists anymore.