Echoes of Somewhere

An experimental freeware 2.5D point and click adventure game with AI assisted graphics.

An anthology series with different world and characters in each episode.

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AI voiceovers

September 25, 2023

For the voiceovers of Echoes of Somewhere I will be doing a hybrid solution: some voiceovers will be real humans, some will be AI and some will be handled by Apple’s text to speech tech from the 90’s.
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Using Midjourney for game locations (city hall part 1)

September 18, 2023

Sometimes these locations require more art direction. More specific features. In these cases, a lot more work is required. Here is a breakdown for how to direct Midjourney for game locations using it’s vary region and pan / zoom out features.
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Building a Puzzle

September 11, 2023

Building Adventure Game Puzzles is fun. This is a very complete breakdown of creating a bathroom scene with its puzzle in under 2 days! (Spoiler alert!)
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New teaser trailer

September 10, 2023

The original teaser trailer I did way back started to look a bit dated with old character, locations and UI, so it was time for a new trailer!
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Custom post-process effect: Anamorphic Bloom

September 4, 2023

Anamorphic bloom is for sure the most cyberpunk aesthetic there is. I wanted to use it as a use case for learning how to create post process materials for Unity URP. This post explains the process.
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Using AI as inspiration for UI design

August 28, 2023

All throughout the project, I have been slightly tweaking the UI from time to time. Now that I have a better understanding of the functionality of the UI, a more polished look and feel begun to creep into my mind.
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Rendering custom shadows with URP shader graph & apartment ext location

August 21, 2023

As I upgraded the render pipeline for the game, I noticed that my custom shadow rendering shaders turned pink. It was time to transition from custom HLSL shading for the environments to a more modern shader graph based approach.
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Additional effects for the apartment scene

August 14, 2023

I have been working on the apartment for absolutely forever! I have begun to approach this room as a vertical slice for the game. This post is about some of the features I added this week: simulated cool air mist and fluorescent light flicker.
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Footstep Audio

August 11, 2023

I have actually never before done footstep audio set for a game. I wanted the system to be able to play audio from animation events and work on multiple different surfaces. Read how I ended up doing it.
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UI audio groundwork

August 4, 2023

For a while now I have been laying the foundations for UI audio for the game. This was more involved than I thought.
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The Adventure Game Hotspot Podcast

September 20, 2023

I was recently interviewed on the Adventure Game Hotspot podcast. We talked about Echoes of Somewhere and the potential and the limits of using AI for game production.
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Premortem Games interview

August 31, 2023

A really interesting gaming news site, PreMortem Games posted and interview about Echoes of Somewhere.
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Article on Adventure Game Hotspot

July 24, 2023

A website focused on covering adventure games, Adventure Game Hotspot, , wrote an article about Echoes of Somewhere. The piece is very interesting as it includes reactions to the game from the adventure game developer community.
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a16z shoutout

July 20, 2023

Echoes of Somewhere was briefly featured in a recent Andreessen Horowitz blog post about AI in games.
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Pixel art test: Photoshop (beta) AI tools

May 24, 2023

A new beta version of photoshop was recently released with generative ai tools (adobe firefly) natively supported directly in the app. I tried it with a simple pixel art scene.
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PC Gamer

The project convincingly shows how an individual artist with limited resources can use these controversial, questionably ethical tools to punch above their weight when developing a game.

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80 Level Talent

A massive 2-part breakdown, describing the pipeline behind the project, discussing the process of creating characters and environments using artificial intelligence.

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