#LevelDesign vs #LevelArt — know the difference! 😊

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Honestly, I'm impressed with artistic choices, but the art director of Infinity Nikki definitely deserved his role!

It's Unreal Engine 5 and RTX Accelerated version of Lumen lighting system.

There is even their official interview about switching to Unreal Engine: https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/developer-interviews/behind-the-scenes-of-infinity-nikki-tracing-a-glamorous-turn-to-an-unreal-open-world

The trick is: they haven't just adopted the engine, their rendering developers recreated lots of features, like Order-Independent Transparency (OIT). Imagine, that folks can do rendering in a gacha about dresses, but AAA games are all using the default UE.

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Temple of Monte Grisa (Trieste, Italy). Architect: Antonio Guacci and Sergio Musmeci. Photo: Paolo Mazzo.

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Oh, and since not many of you here completed the game, here's how Biomutant looks like: an open world with toxic wasteland and ferret people.

Technically a story of revenge and genocide, but barely anyone was reading the whole thing.

Coolest things: puzzles, modular crafting system, and crazy traversal features, like a flying suitcase, steampunk revolver glove (somehow you can ride it), and a hovering bat.

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A bit of mountain structures concept art from Simon Fetscher

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