P.A.M.E.L.A. - Utopian Survival Horror

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Survive, explore, and fight your life in a utopian future ravaged by humanity's misguided pursuit of perfection. We're building a massive world for players to explore, with a vast array of equipment and secrets to uncover as you fight to survive. At the moment, we are in a pre-alpha state of development for Windows PC.

We're a team of 7, working day and night to bring our vision to reality. We've been working with Unity 5 through the beta process, learning the ropes the hard way, and are extremely happy with the awesome new features. Enlighten, reflection probes, and the audio mixer are a few that come to mind immediately as major game changers in how we work with Unity today. There is still a long way to go, but we're having a lot of fun making a game that we truly want to play.

::Update August 7th 2015::



It's been awhile since we updated this thread! Starting about a month ago, we're been doing weekly Dev Blogs from the team, focusing on different areas of development. If you're interested, you can find them here! This week, our Creative Director Alayna goes over the inspiration and design process behind the PAMELA universe.

We've got another trailer in the works, and are also going to be presenting PAMELA at Unite Boston in a few months! Adam will be talking about our design process from an architectural standpoint, and will also go over our visual pipeline to elaborate on how we're achieving our graphics with Unity 5 (and some friends on the asset store ).

There's a lot more we'd like to share, but we don't want to spoil anything else yet! Stay tuned for more updates.

::Update August 21st 2015::



This week, we posted up a Dev Blog in which Adam walks through our level design process. The post is a bit of a teaser for his upcoming talk at Unite Boston, so if you're interested in learning more make sure to check it out at Unite next month.

You can find the post here- Dev Blog 7 - Eden Wasn't Built in a Day

In other news, we're putting the finishing touches on a new trailer which will be live in about a month. We'll be showing off a ton of new areas, friends and foes, and more; stay tuned!

::Update September 22nd 2015::

Big news! We just revealed our new trailer, entitled Rebirth; this trailer shows off a ton of new environments, characters, and reveals some of the tragic backstory about the game and PAMELA herself. Check it out!

In other equally exciting news, we just went live on Steam Greenlight. You can check out our campaign here, and we'd love for you to vote if you're excited for the game!

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=498592198

That's all for now. Let us know what you think of the new update, and if you're at Unite Boston, check out our Studio Director Adam's talk at 11:30am this morning - Fallen Utopia - Bringing the World of PAMELA to Life with Unity 5.

::Update October 2nd 2015::

We've been Greenlit! We received a ton of great feedback from the community, reaching the #1 spot on Greenlight and being Greenlit within only 10 days. Thank you so much to everyone who supported us, and we can't wait to share our progress in the coming months!

Our next major milestone is a playable demo at PAX South; make sure to mark that on your schedules if you're planning on attending!

::Update January 29th 2016::

It's been awhile since we updated this thread! Too long!

We've been keeping up mostly-weekly devblogs, which you can take a look at here if you're interested: http://www.pamelagame.com/blog/

The blogs vary between listing what we've accomplished in any given week, as well as some more "feature" posts about something specific in development. If nothing else it can give you a glimpse into our development process.

And here's a shiny new screenshot! We've been making a ton of progress in filling out our environments with area-specific props to really bring each space to life.



In other news, we'll be at GDC this year, so definitely give us a visit if you're there! We're going to be showing off a brand new hands-on demo which includes a bunch of never before seen content. Hope to see you there!

::Update May 30th 2016::



Looks like we forgot to bump this thread with some exciting news; at this past GDC, we released a new Alpha Gameplay trailer, which you can check out below!

Also, we finally set up our official Steam "Coming Soon" page. If you're looking forward to playing P.A.M.E.L.A., feel free to check it out and add to your wishlist.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/427880

We're getting closer and closer to release this fall, and now that we're officially set up on Steam it's starting to feel even more real! We hope you're as excited as we all are on the team.

 

Love it! The scenes are awesome

 

My goodness this is beautiful.

 

Great trailer, looks fantastic so far!

 

very excited for this. congrats on the mention yesterday.

 

looks very cool!

 

looks awesome i will sure play this

 

Thanks so much for the kind words everyone!

To whoever is at GDC this year, swing by the Unity Booth to chat with the NVYVE Studios team and play a pre-alpha demo of PAMELA hands on! We'd love to meet you.

 

Looks fantastic! Very exciting

I saw some pretty impressive reflections in that video. Would you care you share what techniques you're using for those?

 

After seeing this in the unity talk video, this looks beautiful. Looking forward to playing this.

 

The reflections are a combination of Unity 5's new reflection probe system, and Candella SSR. Each store has it's own box projected probe which gives pretty nice accurate results with smooth blending.

Candella looks great but is quite a frame hog, so it's something to be careful about using if performance is a concern!

 

You got Candela SSRR working good with Unity5? How did you managed that?

 

It just worked out of the box for us, never had any issues. Did you try using the latest version from the Asset Store? We're using the new deferred rendering system.

It's still a very heavy effect though, not draw call friendly! Although it does look great, can't argue with that.

 

Oha, indeed, it seems to be fixed with a newer Unity version. Didn't worked in the early beta, but is totally fine now. Thanks for the tipp!

 

Amazing Graphic Quality!!!

 

Hi. NVYVEStudios is slowly breaking the silence about the game.

Here's the big interview about the project and the whole philosophy behind this survival si-fi adventure.
http://80.lv/?p=9080

 

That

The interview was awesome and the graphics from the images are crazy!

 

::Update August 7th 2015::



It's been awhile since we updated this thread! Starting about a month ago, we're been doing weekly Dev Blogs from the team, focusing on different areas of development. If you're interested, you can find them here! This week, our Creative Director Alayna goes over the inspiration and design process behind the PAMELA universe.

We've currently got another trailer in the works, and are also going to be presenting PAMELA at Unite Boston in a few months! Adam will be talking about our design process from an architectural standpoint, and will also go over our visual pipeline to elaborate on how we're achieving our graphics with Unity 5 (and some friends on the asset store ).

There's a lot more we'd like to share, but we don't want to spoil anything else yet! Stay tuned for more updates.

 

Looking amazing, I really love the UI in the trailer, it just looks awesome!

 

Thanks! Getting it working was a bit of a challenge, playing with different animations, proportions, and all that. Since we have full body awareness with a fairly complex Mechanic setup, we had to get creative with different methods of IK for the arms; we're actually using Final IK, which is a great asset if you're working on a character animation heavy project.

 

::Update August 21st 2015::



This week, we posted up a Dev Blog in which Adam walks through our level design process. The post is a bit of a teaser for his upcoming talk at Unite Boston, so if you're interested in learning more make sure to check it out at Unite next month.

You can find the post here- Dev Blog 7 - Eden Wasn't Built in a Day

In other news, we're putting the finishing touches on a new trailer which will be live in about a month. We'll be showing off a ton of new areas, friends and foes, and more; stay tuned!

 

Really love this.

 

Thanks! Let's say hi if you're at Unite next month.

 

Not going next month but we will say hi at some point, would love to give the game a spin and have a chin-wag

 

::Update September 22nd 2015::

Big news! We just revealed our new trailer, entitled Rebirth; this trailer shows off a ton of new environments, characters, and reveals some of the tragic backstory about the game and PAMELA herself. Check it out!

In other equally exciting news, we just went live on Steam Greenlight. You can check out our campaign here, and we'd love for you to vote if you're excited for the game!

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=498592198

That's all for now. Let us know what you think of the new update, and if you're at Unite Boston, check out our Studio Director Adam's talk at 11:30am this morning - Fallen Utopia - Bringing the World of PAMELA to Life with Unity 5.

*edit* Oh, and check out our Made With Unity page here. Love Unity's new showcase site! http://madewith.unity.com/made-with-unity/games/pamela

 

I have to say I am really impressed with the new trailer and the whole environment that you have developed. Looks absolutely fantastic.

 

Thanks! Really appreciate the kind words.

We're also super excited to announce that P.A.M.E.L.A. is now ranked in the top 10 on Greenlight, after just over 24 hours! It's been fantastic to see all the positive feedback; if you also want to see the game on Steam, drop us a vote on Greenlight!

 

Voted on Greenlight, good luck, it's looking great so far!

 

Just voted on Greenlight, looking forward to this beauty of a game!
One of the prettiest game made with Unity to this date!

It's really motivating to see projects like this made with the tool we love.
It shows it's true potential!

 

::Update October 2nd 2015::



We've been Greenlit! We received a ton of great feedback from the community, reaching the #1 spot on Greenlight and being Greenlit within only 10 days. Thank you so much to everyone who supported us, and we can't wait to share our progress in the coming months!

Our next major milestone is a playable demo at PAX South; make sure to mark that on your schedules if you're planning on attending!

And in case you missed it, here is our latest trailer that just went live last week. It shows off a ton of new environments and characters, if you're interested in P.A.M.E.L.A. it's a must see!

 

@NVYVEStudios, Greenlit in only 10 days... I'm not surprised! Congrats nonetheless!

 

Fantastic design!

 

This looks Insane.
One of the best visuals on Unity so far, astonishing work guys!

 

::Update January 29th 2016::

It's been awhile since we updated this thread! Too long!

We've been keeping up mostly-weekly devblogs, which you can take a look at here if you're interested: http://www.pamelagame.com/blog/

The blogs vary between listing what we've accomplished in any given week, as well as some more "feature" posts about something specific in development. If nothing else it can give you a glimpse into our development process.

And here's a shiny new screenshot! We've been making a ton of progress in filling out our environments with area-specific props to really bring each space to life.



In other news, we'll be at GDC this year, so definitely give us a visit if you're there! We're going to be showing off a brand new hands-on demo which includes a bunch of never before seen content. Hope to see you there!

 

Looking better and better. Gonna smash it.

 

It's always a good day when someone replaces the world play with smash. Glad you're looking forward to it.

 

::Update May 30th 2016::



Looks like we forgot to bump this thread with some exciting news; at this past GDC, we released a new Alpha Gameplay trailer, which you can check out below!

Also, we finally set up our official Steam "Coming Soon" page. If you're looking forward to playing P.A.M.E.L.A., feel free to check it out and add to your wishlist.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/427880

We're getting closer and closer to release this fall, and now that we're officially set up on Steam it's starting to feel even more real! We hope you're as excited as we all are on the team.

 

The game looks awesome.
How did you guys managed to use succesfully Enlighten, it is so slow when baking did you use a server farm ?
Or did you use some external baker ?

 

Thank you! For Enlighten, we do bakes overnight on one of our workstations. Baking the entire world takes around 12 hours or so, which isn't really too crazy considering how huge of an area that is. We're using a resolution of 1 for the realtime GI, which is a good blend between performance and quality for us.

 

Hi there, great work! One of the first games which shows the real potential of Unity and this in a damn good way *___*

Could you share some information about your workflow? Which programs did you use beside Unity?

And which Assets where used in production?

As I could see a lot of stuff was done in NodeCanvas? Did you use FlowCanvas or something like PlayMaker/Behavior Designer too?