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Twelve Shattered Haven Screenshots
« on: March 07, 2013, 11:00:59 am »
Original: http://christophermpark.blogspot.com/2013/03/twelve-shattered-haven-screenshots.html

I can't quite say that these are the "first" screenshots of Shattered Haven, because there were some really ancient ones posted of the game way back in 2009, and more recently I posted about the evolution of the graphics of one particular level.

So there have been little peeks here and there, but by and large we've not shown the in-game graphics for the game because we wanted them to be final or near-final before getting too much scrutiny of them.  As you can see from the older screenshots linked to above, the game has evolved a LOT.

We're now imminently close to starting beta, and actually 1.0 is darn close, too.  Beta will likely start tomorrow, and 1.0 is expected to be on the 18th.  We're finally very, very close to being done with this game, which started development in January 2008 (there were some large gaps in those five years where we didn't work on it at all, obviously).

Anyway, with all that in mind, here are twelve screenshots of some of the various levels in the game.  There's not anything particularly spoiler-y in these, by design, so you can look at them freely.  There are a very few non-finalized bits of art here and there in some of the screenshots, but I doubt you'd be able to pick out the differences between this and final if I showed you these and final screenshots side by side.  So this is pretty much what 1.0 is going to look like!













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Re: Twelve Shattered Haven Screenshots
« Reply #1 on: March 07, 2013, 03:49:15 pm »
My god your lighting effects are getting rather awesome.
Is the little "gray" nametag going to be there in the final release, or will there be a more subtle identification of the enemies (like a red outliney glow or something)?

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Re: Twelve Shattered Haven Screenshots
« Reply #2 on: March 07, 2013, 03:50:57 pm »
That nametag only show during the initial view of a level when everything is paused.

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Re: Twelve Shattered Haven Screenshots
« Reply #3 on: March 07, 2013, 04:02:15 pm »
Oh okay cool.
That's rather nice then. It would have been a bit silly if they all had nametags while they were walking around.

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Re: Twelve Shattered Haven Screenshots
« Reply #4 on: March 07, 2013, 05:30:36 pm »
Wasn't the Factory the picture you used in the previous Shattered Haven screenshot post? It looks familiar and I'm not in the alpha.

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Re: Twelve Shattered Haven Screenshots
« Reply #5 on: March 07, 2013, 06:21:23 pm »
Thanks on the lighting! I'm really pleased with that too. The shadows, especially cloud shadows, are my favorite though. Looks best in motion.

And yeah, the factory was what I used for that "evolution of shattered haven" post. It's actually linked in the OP if you want to check out how far it's evolved.
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Re: Twelve Shattered Haven Screenshots
« Reply #6 on: March 07, 2013, 06:46:17 pm »
Looks interesting.  The Dark Facility looks like it is especially intense.  Also, is that bunny rabbit a potential enemy?  If so, someone here needs to pull out a Monty Python quote ;)
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Re: Twelve Shattered Haven Screenshots
« Reply #7 on: March 07, 2013, 07:05:15 pm »
I plead the fifth on the rabbit. :)
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Re: Twelve Shattered Haven Screenshots
« Reply #8 on: March 07, 2013, 07:54:15 pm »
I plead the fifth on the rabbit. :)
THe fifth? But you only need to count to three! ;)

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Re: Twelve Shattered Haven Screenshots
« Reply #9 on: March 07, 2013, 07:56:32 pm »
You know, there are hand grenades in this game... I totally need to make a level that combines both. :)
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Re: Twelve Shattered Haven Screenshots
« Reply #10 on: March 07, 2013, 09:12:37 pm »
Hand Grenades and Rabbits, Oh My!!   :)

Looking forward to the start of beta tomorrow, wish you all the best, this looks very very good!  :)

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Re: Twelve Shattered Haven Screenshots
« Reply #11 on: March 07, 2013, 10:32:11 pm »
But will Darrell have replacement armor available?
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Re: Twelve Shattered Haven Screenshots
« Reply #12 on: March 08, 2013, 01:10:34 am »
Snowy Superhighway=Frogger?


But seriously, looks nice.
I can already tell this is going to be a roller coaster ride of disappointment.

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Re: Twelve Shattered Haven Screenshots
« Reply #13 on: March 08, 2013, 01:11:10 am »
Snowy Superhighway=Frogger?


But seriously, looks nice.
I doubt the cars are moving if the story is even remotely the way it sounds.

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Re: Twelve Shattered Haven Screenshots
« Reply #14 on: March 08, 2013, 01:12:11 am »
Yeah, probably, but I was really just joking on the layout of the level.
I can already tell this is going to be a roller coaster ride of disappointment.

 

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