It ins't obvious from a lot of what I have shown here, but the ambient occlusion actually caused a lot more inconsistencies. Aside from displaying differently on different devices, it also sampled the mesh vertices, so on anything with movement on it like the grass or the water, there would be a black halo around where the mesh would be before shaders on any adjacent geometry. As far as the grass goes, much like it doesn't have the outline applied to it now, the ambient occlusion actually wasn't applied to the grass or water either.
Other issues were introduced with camera zoom, since the ambient occlusion was a screen space thing, things would be inconsistent at different distances.
And I mean finally it just came down to taste for me. To me, it looked muddy, you'd get halos around the characters as they moved, it forced my hand to "cheat" some geometry in certain models to make things look right, and I just generally do like things more colorful.
Ah, I see. Seems like the issue was more than just taste, it was technical aspects. But there are games that seem similar so there must be other ways to create the same effect.
I wanted to keep the Kickstarter trailer short, and tease the story through the interactions shown in the trailer, but I got into more story details on the actual page. The gist of it is that Lucas (the wolf) and Otis (the sheep) run into each other after Otis is ostracized by his fellow sheep. After an initial scuffle, the two decide to conspire to fight the other sheep so that Otis can get his revenge and Lucas can expand his territory. Eventually you get through the sheep territory and your party's aspirations grow as more people join your team, making your way through other animals' territories. This is essentially the story of a semi well-intentioned group starting something that gets way out of their control and they have to deal with the consequences.
Though as much as I would love to think the Kickstarter suffered because people didn't get enough of an idea of the plot from the video, the sad fact is that no one actually saw the video hahaha
I'd say it still would've been nice to see some of that mentioned in the trailer.
Oh, that reminds me. The beginning of the KS trailer (i.e. Wolf Gang is coming to KS) looked more like a KS campaign teaser that would be released prior to the launch of the KS campaign and not something posted as the KS video. Maybe that's why people didn't watch the video to the end.
Or do you mean that people didn't even start watching the video.
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