Depth of Field post processing effect - is this possible

foriero

James, I'm looking for talented people for our upcoming project. Are you open for work?

Thanks, Marek.

Jamez0r

Hey Marek - I'm working full time on my project (pretty much every waking hour, lol).

Thanks a lot for the inquiry though!

James

foriero

Hey James,

Thank you for the answer. I don't know why but I feel you would be a great team mate. Can you imagine to come Thailand on a tropical island for 3 months and may be more for a team building? We are working on Ori like title.

Jamez0r

Hey Marek - sorry I didn't get a notification email for your last message.

I'm super flattered for the invite and you seem like a cool guy to work with, but I'm heavily invested in my current project. My team formed our company together 6 months ago, and we all quit our previous jobs to work on this project together. It's really scary and risky, but it's basically our dream project.

I would totally be down to keep in touch / discuss our projects and help each other out with ideas and anything else. I've been contemplating setting up a private discord server and inviting a few developers so we could bounce ideas off of each other and ask questions. Would you be at all interested in that? It would be really nice to have a group of 5-10 developers (namely doing 2D stuff) that could help each other out. I know of 2 or 3 other people that I could invite.

I'd definitely like to hear about your project - it's a side-scroller style like Ori?

foriero

Hey James, thanks for the reply.

Yes I understand your situation and it is kind of risky adventure to leave job and work on title given what is happening in the game industry. I like what you do guys. For my taste it is a bit dark and bloody but generally nice work with the camera and effects. That's why I wrote you. We are going to grow our team to 40 people in the course of one year and have the upcoming game covered for 3 years production by a publisher. Plus if all goes well our HQ is going to be soon ready for an embarkment.

I can not talk much about our game but in short it is a fairy tale about silenced music island. We have four worlds that correspond to four music instrument groups in the symphonic orchestra. It is side scroller like Ori with some front facing fights as you can see on my last post on linked in.

As I saw your work I noticed that you have a tremendous potential to grow and we are looking for people like this. People who are not afraid to experiment and push things forward so that the FEELING is right no matter what it technically takes.

We are currently 12 people, 3 more coming. The project is going to start in March. It is called Musicuso - Silent Island

Are you guys incorporated? What platforms are you going to publish? When is the release date of your game?

Thanks, Marek

Jamez0r

Wow that sounds like a pretty big project - is the whole team going to be working on Musicuso or are you taking on multiple projects? Congrats on the 3 years production by a publisher - that's awesome. I like the musical aspect to your game, will you guys be using Wwise or Fmod in the project? We're using Wwise and it kicks ass. I haven't tested out Fmod but I assume it works in a similar way.

Yes, we're an LLC (Gardenfiend Games). We're hoping to publish on pc/switch/ps5/xboxX, but that will depend a bit on whether or not I do the porting myself or if we get any 3rd party help. I haven't done porting before, and just recently started researching it. We're planning on releasing around 06/2022. We're working to finish up our demo to pitch to publishers in around 2 to 3 months from now, so that's our current milestone.

I hear you about trying to get the 'feeling' right in a game. It's tough and its something that we've been working hard to try to achieve. Hollow Knight has been a huge influence for us on building atmosphere, so that's part of the reason I've been analyzing it and wanting to try out some of its visual effects (like the DoF). By the way, I got the two-camera setup working pretty well! I'm going to update that post with a little video of a mockup I made 8)

Jamez0r

Hey, here is an invite to a discord server that I made (no one else in it yet): https://discord.gg/FBGzFdu2pN

Planning on inviting a couple other unity2D devs that I've seen make some good posts either on the Spine forums or the Unity forums. Don't know which of them will join, but I think having a couple people to bounce ideas off of would be really nice. And no problem if you don't want to join 😃

foriero

Hey James, sure I join in. And will be happy to contribute here and there. So far I love your CTO like approach to dev. You would be amazing working on Musicuso - Silent Island. Musicuso as IP is much broader including script for movie, edu school like app and more.

Jamez0r

Hey Marek - gah, sorry for the delayed response, again I didn't get a notification for your last message and didn't see it until now.

Thats really cool that the IP for Musico is that broad - is the game going to be educational too? I can't join the team unfortunately, but I would really like to stay in touch. Speaking of which, I invited a couple people to the discord server. Going to probably try to get a total of like 8 or 10 people in there. Feel free to invite anyone that you'd like :yes: