Chris DelayĬD: During Prison Architect we were getting a little bit burned out, and so I took a month out from Prison Architect and I took Alistair, our audio guy, and Leander, another programmer, and we kind of just holed up in my house for like a month and made these two prototypes. We're trying to create a certain feeling in the player, and I wouldn't quite want to say exactly what that feeling is. Scanner Sombre will be available on Steam come April 26.How'd the structure around that mechanic come around then? I get the feeling I’ll have the same reaction.
Despite working on it for the best part of a year, it still takes my breath away when I look at the fully scanned world.” “We did consider other simpler rendering methods but ultimately, going with such an usual style of point cloud rendering gives the game a pretty unique look, and also provides our core game mechanic. “It was probably the biggest technical challenge of the project to support such a huge number of points - it can easily be millions by the end of the game,” Delay continued.
It’s rather a different challenge technically, as well normally first-person games rely on complex polygonal structures and texture maps to create scenes, but Scanner Sombre imitates the lidar style of point clouds very closely. “I really wanted to recreate that visual style from the Radiohead video quite closely, complete with the rainbow colors and the eerie, static point cloud that just looks totally alien, and totally devoid of life,” Delay said in response to my emailed query. Turns out Chris Delay, Introversion Software’s creative director, was inspired by Radiohead’s lidar-powered music video for “House of Cards.” I was curious about the team’s inspiration for using such a unique look.
It’s one of those situations where the technology in itself creates a look and feel that’s powerful and strange.
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