Chernobylite - News - Weekly Report #181 | eprison.de

Hello Stalkers!

The fractal world was one of the most exciting projects we've worked on. Just imagine: you're creating a bridge between the real world and a location where time and place don't exist. We have devoted two reports to this topic. In the first one, we presented what the original ideas for what function would the fractal world play in the game. The very concept of walking inside a large sphere still makes us dizzy to this day.

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1016800/view/3019080202255987439

In the second report, we presented where the idea for the fractal world came from and how it evolved over the years (e.g. we used some of the solutions earlier in Get Even).

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1016800/view/3642879484778982379

Today we return to this topic again. This time we want to show you the first attempts at turning our ideas into reality. We put down the results of the brainstorming on paper. The result are conceptual sketches of something that was supposed to appear in our game soon.

Crystals were the priority. Not only were they basis of the fractal world, but basically of the entire game - chernobylite crystals can be found almost everywhere, not to mention that almost the entire story of Chernobylite revolves around crystals. Only at a later stage of project were we able to combine them in such a way that they formed part of a larger architecture.

As you can see in the above image, we wanted to create something like corridors in huge caves, straight out of a fantasy novel. Over time, the design of the crystal corridors has undergone modifications: sometimes we gave the player more space, other times we locked them in tight corridors.

For a long time we couldn't decide on the final look of the short corridor. But in the end, we made a compromise that you could see in the game in Early Access: a short corridor where we walked on a chernobylite footbridge, and above our heads there was an open space with a view of hundreds, thousands of chernobylite blocks. Of course, that too has changed a lot. But that's another story ;)