Building a Game with the Real Engine

Point and clicks have quite a few similar examples, the genre lends itself well to dioramas because even when it&#x27;s 3D it&#x27;s often a fixed camera path that you can optimize for.<p>As an example, a nice looking one from a decade ago: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;store.steampowered.com&#x2F;app&#x2F;205020&#x2F;Lumino_City&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;store.steampowered.com&#x2F;app&#x2F;205020&#x2F;Lumino_City&#x2F;</a><p>Papetura also got a fair bit of attention for a while (for good reason, just look at it): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;ZVhtuKleLuI" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;ZVhtuKleLuI</a><p>Personally I love the hand-crafted &quot;real&quot; look these bring. It tends to consume a <i>ton</i> of disk space, but it looks good pretty much forever.

There was a nice game in this style called The Neverhood.

Reminds of an early tank simulator where the driver in the cockpit saw a video feed from a camera on a gantry they were slowly driving around a diarama. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=AcQifPHcMLE" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=AcQifPHcMLE</a><p>&quot;Real engine&quot; for just one player at a time though.

&gt; The other bad thing about 3d printing is layer lines. I had some bench parts printed, and I thought I could cover up the layer lines with acrylic paint, but it it turned out that even two layers of gesso followed by two layers of paint didn’t solve the problem.<p>You can fix that problem by sanding your 3d-printed object before applying acrylic paint. It&#x27;s also recommended to apply a primer before you paint it.

I accidentally hovered my mouse cursor over the images, and saw a detailed description. It may have been generated by AI, but it&#x27;s a nice touch that was not expected

You could do gaussian splat on the diorama picture and you can have pretty good dynamic camera movements where the player could walk around

It seems quite obvious that Gen AI will be a major change in the creation of game assets. If not stand-alone then certainly in the form of AIded (get it?) tooling. In particular there&#x27;s huge potential for the indie market. If you&#x27;re thinking about starting up a company, that&#x27;s definitely a space where things are going to be hot IMO.

Oddly enough, some of Cliff Bleszinksi&#x27;s first titles published by Epic (then Epic MegaGames) were point and click adventures like Palace of Deceit: The Dragon&#x27;s Plight. They had MSPaint graphics and VB code.<p>This is a lovely continuation of that same tradition that takes full advantage of your analogue craftsmanship skills.

Needle felting is fun! My daughter got a little needle felting kit for Christmas last year and I ended up doing most of it. I was terrible at it, but we had fun.

Truberbrook (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;trueberbrook.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;trueberbrook.com&#x2F;</a>) is a recent diorama game example.

this is neat! Diorama-based games are really underrated IMO. I&#x27;m currently attempting to do something related, building a game on top of Google Street View, with 3D audio and objects embedded in the panorama.

Something similar was done for the 1996 game <i>Creatures</i>. A part of the diorama still survives and is on display at the <i>Centre for Computing History</i> in <i>Cambridge</i> (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.computinghistory.org.uk&#x2F;det&#x2F;42694&#x2F;Creatures-Development-Model&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.computinghistory.org.uk&#x2F;det&#x2F;42694&#x2F;Creatures-Deve...</a>).