Echoes of Somewhere

Author: Jussi Kemppainen

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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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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PDA Part 2 – notifications

July 10, 2023

Now that I had stuff tucked away hidden in the PDA I wanted to let the player know of these a little bit. So I decided to do a simple on screen notify when new To-Do list items are added or then new messages arrive.
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PDA part 1 – interface

July 3, 2023

Adventure creator has support for objective lists and documents. I figured why not integrate them into the game as well? The player could be able to receive some text messages like in Cyberpunk 2077 and have a list of to-do’s for keeping the objective clear.
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Maglev transit system

June 26, 2023

Way back when I did the maglev scene, it was just a scene void of any connection to anything in the game. I just knew I needed one so I made it. Now I returned to the scene to add the transit functionality to it that it required.
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Chat-GPT generated dialogue for AI characters

June 19, 2023

I had always planned on using Chat-GPT for creating the dialogue for the non-human characters. This is my experience of it.
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