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Nelo

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In Distant Space, An alien species, the Tono Gian, have been fighting their own A.I. creations to find resourceful planets. The A.I. project, Nightsithe, was originally designed to harvest other planets for their people but now have revolted against their masters. A Tono Gian ship crashed on the planet, Plemniba, a planet that once had a civilization, but has already taken by the Nightsithe. The only survivor of the ship goes by the name, Nelo. Nelo Hybrids Elements of retro arcade twin-stick shooters with elements of modern games. Nelo Main Weapon are four telekinetic controlled, mechanical Hand that allow Him to wield four conventional weapons at once and gives him the flexibility to fire in all direction. Nelo's alien suit gives him super speed and agility to combat the overwhelming swarms of the Nightsithe.

Post news Report RSS Nelo is Switching to Unreal Engine 4

We have made the decision to switch our project to Unreal Engine 4.

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Hello IndieDB, I would like to announce that we are now developing with Unreal Engine 4. Usually I'm very turned off by the idea of switching engines, but after tinkering around with UE4's blueprint system, Rebuildng gamecode may not be so hard to do. In only 3 days, we got some of the basic movements systems and animations reimplemented in UE4. The art pipeline is not new to us, since we have had experience with UE4 in the past as 3d Artists.

UE4 Render Test

A Render Test of Nelo In Unreal Engine 4.

We believe that using UE4 will help us further down in the production. being able to acces the source will allow us to potentially port our project to other gaming platform. And using the new engine will let us push the graphical boundries that our skill will allow. When we were working with UDK we made custom shaders that imitated Physically based materials much like what is used in UE4. So when working in UDK we made BRDF maps and material masks for our assets and all easily ports over in UE4.


UE4 Test - Indie DB

This Early UE4 footage is only 3 days of tinkering with blueprint.

We are not strangers to UE4's art pipeline. My partner and I have both worked on the Primal Carnage Genesis Tech demos 2 years ago. We made almost all the assets in the Trex Tank Trailer, and I created the Brachiosaurus for the second Trailer. But when working on those productions we never got the chance to mess around with Programming and Blueprint. Being a fan of working with Unrealscript I am very glad to know that Blueprint talks pretty much just like Uscript. many of the same events and commen function are all there with the same names and this seriously saves us so much time rebuilding the game scripts. and knowing that the generic unit system is the same means making movement speed, jump height, and other variables like that just a matter of copy/paste values from UDK scripts.

Switching to UE4 may set us back a month or two rebuilding gamecode, shaders, effects, and levels. but I believe it will help us further down the production line working with a more up to date, Next gen game engine. Thank you for reading and please stay tuned for more progress. -Kevin

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I absolutely love the sense of speed here.
Good work!

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