Same, it was many years ago. Glad they are taking the time with it instead of rushing it out.

How long ago to be exact?

Is this the pillow castle one or a different one oh wait just remembered I think it got turned into Sub Liminal

@@ohtrueyeahnah Nah, Subliminal is Subliminal.

I know right, i was really happy to see that tech demo post referenced @11:03

I was just thinking that this game looks like Superliminal's artsy younger brother.

​@@JLF-cn1rr Looks like superliminal on steroids to me

@@JLF-cn1rr implying superliminal isn’t artsy

...and Antichamber)

​@@alexdik17, please stop being a slav

It has the 'visual-portal' effect of Gorogoa. This should be a VR game.

And the mechanic was designed for Portal 3.

@@johnserpo9267 people need to stop sleeping on Gorogoa

I think it's mostly done with some raycasting shenanigans. I'm honestly less impressed with the programming and more with how well polished it is!

So far, all I have is the moment you pick up a photo it's already a 3D object perfectly stuck in rotation and tied to your view. A raycast is used to determine where to place it, and a square hole is cut in the level geometry at the scene's corners. Some relative scaling so it always looks the same size might be at play. Of course, when in help form everything is rendered on top of the level, even if it actually is further away. Artstyle hides this well

@@_.-. It seems the photos only turn into a 3D frustum block when you place them. There are some slight changes sometimes in the more stylized ones.

​@@SentinelZedit probably🎉 runs like shit.

I'm not as impressed by the fact that someone figured out how to do this as I am impressed that someone *came up with the idea*.

2:02 "fuck you" *unpets your cat*

Unlike Red Dead Redemption 2 😡

Unlike BotW. You can't pet the dog.

@@Red_MOON187 or in TotK either...

Stendo-Neck Dude™ only wishes for Bobbert's eternally roasting marshmallow.

Subliminal, or Superliminal?

Don't forget the witness. This also has some graphics that look like the witness

​@@microdavid7098 I love "The Witness"!!

Try "Gorogoa" also!!

Hiraya means imagination in tagalog as well! So yes, she probably is.

people need to stop using the word masterpiece so freely

@@fulltimeslackerii8229 well, is it an amateur piece?

@@fulltimeslackerii8229 I agree. They should only use it when it fits _my_ personal idea of a masterpiece. Their own opinions don't matter.

​@@SilverFoxeGames It's just a really cool project

@@fulltimeslackerii8229 Nah, this is arguably a masterpiece of a game, just like Superliminal.

yeah i can’t wrap my mind around how the game decides how near or far from the viewer to place the structures in the photograph. a block could end up too far away to be jumped onto for instance

@@jugbrewercame here to mention this. I’d be very interested to see how they decide depth in both a preset and user-made photo.

@@jugbrewerI have an idea for how depth might work from a user-made photo. Simply store an exact copy of the map in the 3D region covered by the camera’s perspective. Then when the player “places” the image, paste the stored map, preserving original perspective with the current perspective

@@jugbrewerfor pre made images, well, those are just player made images if the player is the dev. Would not be very hard conceptually to take the above concept and apply it to a scene you create, then take a picture of

@@ObnoxiousNinja99 that all makes sense, but from watching this demo i can't tell if the game is just placing the scene at the same distance it was captured at, or if it's somehow deciding what depth to use. it kind of seems like it doesn't always place it at a consistent depth but that could just be my eyes tricking me. i'll probably never know as i don't have a PC or PS5 haha

Hi! Yeah, it's totally possible to delete the wrong part of a level (such as the level exit transporter) by placing a picture in the wrong place. I agree that's a big part of the reason they have a rewind function.

@@AlphaBetaGamer Ah, I was wondering why they had implemented rewind, it seemed the concept was astounding enough without having to implement such a notoriously difficult mechanic in game dev.

Was about to say, it got rewind for that

Rewind is difficult if there is a large amount of memory needed to do it, and multi-player makes this worse by adding replication issues. But here they only have to track the player's location and camera rotation per frame, plus the singular interaction type. In a small level with a single player, that's as simple as an array of vectors for the former two, and keeping the original level state as well as using override volumes in the case that two of these sublevels overlap each other. Memory isn't an issue as you can clear it on teleport. Additionally, camera location and rotation can be simplified as points on a curve, removing the need to store every single frame.

@sonic-templeos The smile tells me this is a well-intentioned comment. I'm not a know it all, but I want to know it all. I like understanding things. Halfway off-topic post edit: Sometimes when I explain how something works, a small number of people view it as though I am belittling the creator: But I am doing the exact opposite. By explaining how to break down the problem or reproduce the solution, I am trying to encourage more people to believe that they can implement it as well. If a system is bad I won't so much as leave a comment. If it's good and people are in awe, I just want to demystify that so they realize that more people can make this than they may realize. It's a form of motivation to convince someone "yep, you could do that, too, if you apply yourself."

Yea that was my thoughts too. While trimming the geometry is simple in practice redoing all the uvmap's I think Isn't as much. But once you have that tech down you just apply it twice inverted. Once to take a frustrum slice out of the existing level and make a copy and then again inverted to take an additional slice out of where you want to copy that new mesh data into and then just drop it into place. The trimming is 99% of the technical challenge here for sure.

MENA region?

@@AlbertBalbastreMorte middle east north africa

Leading Vision by who?

@@AlbertBalbastreMorte i also would like to know

Gorod, I think. They're a death metal band.

*Antechamber

@@bugzilla318 Antichamber is an actual game with a block gun and strange puzzles. Look it up if you don't believe me

it predates it, it was in dev for like 5 years now

@@devilgene7330 Superliminal was also in development for a long time

@@kiiro712 I guess, it just feels long af

"The Witness" does that.

Haha, yeah it's pretty crazy! Things get even more mind-blowing once you get the camera too!