Risen 2 - Dark Waters

Risen 2 - Dark Waters

Games 2012

Sinopsis

Set several years after the events of the first Risen, raging Titans have devastated the world and pushed humanity to the brink of extinction. Monstrous creatures have risen from the watery depths and their attacks have brought all seafaring to a halt. The town of Caldera and the Fortress of Crystal — the last haven of the Inquisition and the Old Empire — survive only because two Titans have begun fighting each other. The hero, now a member of the Inquisition, is sent on a quest through a pirate-themed, Caribbean-style fantasy world to find a legendary treasure and discover a way to destroy the Titans, while pirates and a sea monster known as the Kraken disrupt every supply line.

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Service

Alcance del trabajo

Production pipeline setup · recruiting international team of animators · massive amounts of hand-keyed animations · quick approval and review processes · over 2,200 animations for nonhuman creatures · trailer asset modeling · modeling and texturing of 250 items and buildings

Socios de producción

Piranha Bytes (Windows developer); Wizarbox (PS3 / Xbox 360 ports); Koch Media; Deep Silver

Cliente

Piranha Bytes; Koch Media; Deep Silver

Equipo Clave

Engine: Genome (Piranha Bytes internal engine) with NaturalMotion's Morpheme animation middleware — the latter making animation pipeline volume and quality the central technical challenge for this title.

Distribución

Worldwide publisher: Deep Silver. Japanese publisher: Ubisoft. Console ports developed by French studio Wizarbox (PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360).

Temas

pirates · voodoo magic · sea monsters · Caribbean-style fantasy · sequel to a high-fantasy world · inquisition vs. pirate factions · exploration and faction questing

Pipeline

The technical centrepiece of Pixable Studios' contribution was the animation pipeline: the Genome / Morpheme combination required thousands of hand-keyed animations for non-human creatures. The studio set up the pipeline, recruited an international animation team, and ran the approval and review cycles needed to deliver roughly 2,200 creature animations alongside the modelling and texturing of around 250 items and buildings, plus trailer assets.

Notas de Producción

Direct sequel to Risen (2009). The series continues with Risen 3: Titan Lords (2014). DLC released for the title includes "A Pirate's Clothes", "The Air Temple" and "Treasure Isle" (all 2012); a Gold Edition was released in 2013.