Monthly Development Update August 2024

The Warped Games team has made substantial progress across multiple dimensions of the game, propelling us closer to delivering an immersive experience.

Our recent upgrade to Unreal Engine 5.4.3 has unlocked new possibilities, including seamless level streaming for uninterrupted gameplay.
Ground and space missions are now more dynamic than ever, with enhanced visuals, AI improvements, and new cinematic elements.
The game’s audio and UI have also seen significant upgrades, adding depth and clarity to player interactions.

Meanwhile, our ongoing web redesign and strategic business moves continue to expand Warped Universe’s reach and community engagement.

GAME DEVELOPMENT

• Upgraded project to Unreal 5.4.3
• Level streaming subsystem completed for seamless gameplay
  • Enables continuous play without a map reload while switching between gameplay camera, controls, cutscenes, and UI
  • Updated versioning system to support multiple platforms and fixed Linux builds
• Successful test-build on MacOS
• Added support to play movies / videos on top of our sequences for enhanced visuals
• Added planet destruction effects and visuals
• Improvements to AI targeting
• Updated versioning module to not unnecessarily write files and support values passed in from the build server
• Post process to 4k changes
• Optimization pass to reduce the amount of unused assets for faster builds and smaller game package size
• Grid fadeout material based on camera distance

GAME AUDIO

• Spaceship engine sound work
• UI sound cues — mission objective audio
• Real-time & turn-based ground cinematic sequence foley work
  • Ship crash / explosion
  • Ambience
  • Enemy / Void alert & attack
• Recorded & processed new Oracle VO lines
• Added subtitles to all VO work
• Sound attenuation work and fine-tuning
  • Explosions and artillery
  • Enemy / Void
  • Ominous ambience for intro sequence and mission… oooooh, spooky
• Void destroy / dissolve sounds

GAME UI

• Mission UI iterations and improvements
  • Compass UI
  • Improved waypoint UI to follow actors
  • Mission integration
• New ammo, health, and stamina bar icons
• Crosshair iterations
• Space gameplay HUD cleanup
• HUD hides during transitions
• Added hit marker to crosshairs

GROUND MISSIONS

• Added recoil support for ground weapons
• Enemy / Void fx
  • Weapon effect visuals boosted
  • Dying enemies now dissolve
• Spawners use specific points to control starting locations for groups of enemies

SPACE MISSIONS

• Turn-based space switched over to a hex-based system
  • New hex grid manager and hex assets
• Added asteroids as cover objects
• Player spaceship updates
  • Player ship VFX work
  • Added the animated texture
  • Ships now can have multiple fx per thrust and boost location
  • Ship trails work
  • Ship visuals upgrade
• Added functionality to capital ship
• Camera path updates to turn-based fly out sequence to not fly through geometry
• Combat maneuvers system designed and implemented for turn-based space, made to capture the feel of dogfighting!
• Turn-based space cover assets
• New ship spawners system
• Added planet cracks to the turn-based map
• Added option to attack abilities to toggle units facing each other
• Adding new sequence, with Oracle VO for the beginning of turn-based space

Web Design & Development

• Major redesign of the warped.games website
• New website features
  • Comprehensive gallery
  • Media downloads: desktop, mobile and X wallpaper and banners
  • Consolidation of news and articles
  • Updated and expanded FAQ
  • Interactive lore timeline (coming soon)
• Ongoing improvements
  • Added support for superwide monitors
  • Partner call to action revamped
  • Theme music is now supported on multiple browsers
  • Improvements to the mobile experience

Business & Marketing

• $Warped token listed on MEXC exchange
• Hosted our 7th Warped Talk Q&A featuring
  • First glimpse of gameplay footage
  • Special guest @SpikeCollects
• Participants in X / Twitter spaces
  • Call of the VoYd
  • SKALE | All Things Gaming
  • The Blockchain Arcade
• Multiple features in Blockchain Game Alliance newsletter
• Listed on soulbound.gg
• Onboarded our new CFO
• Lots of stuff we still can’t talk about

We sincerely thank you for your support and interest in Warped Games and the Warped Universe. We’re thrilled about the community that’s forming around this project. Our commitment to sharing developments as we build and grow remains steadfast. Stay tuned for more updates and progress as we move through our exciting journey in gaming and Web3!

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https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/warped-universe-f1cedb