In a recent internal meeting, we decided to spend some time improving the appearance of the cube.

The cube is the most symbolic item in the game. Players can find it in almost every puzzle and it plays a significant role.

This is how the cube looked originally. It looked good, right? But some of us disagreed. So our artist designed a few more pattern options. They’re all inspired by Rubik’s Cube and the complexity of it.

What do you think? My favorite is the first one from the left.

There was a long and drawn out discussion, we liked them, however, we decided to go back to the original one, because these options had too many stripes and barely any simplicity.

So in the end, few things are changed. But it was worth a try.

Here’s the second devlog video showing how we built the very first demo of Protoform.

We hope you like it!

The next devlog video will arrive in three weeks.

We had a very flat look for the game lighting wise and we’ve been trying to find a way to change it. In the last week we’ve added a light probe solution to the game, in order to improve the lighting system.

As shown in the pics, objects can now receive indirect lights from other light sources, allowing for us to have some environment lighting.

The dots you see below in the top down view are the light probes that records lighting status in each spot. Each light probe pre-records lighting settings for their position, when the player reaches that position, the lighting settings will be made realtime. This allows the lighting to change in realtime as the player moves amongst the light probes.

This documentary tells the story of how we started the Protoform project, enjoy:

We’ll be continuing this series every 2-3 weeks. Should let you all have a closer looks at how a game’s made and how all the decisions are discussed.