Playing through a Steam demo for Chasing the Unseen, we were reminded by turns of Journey's sand dunes, Halo's loopy Forerunner skyboxes and the sinewy architecture of the recent Scorn.
Chasing the Unseen's landscapes are based on fractals – briefly, mathematical shapes whose parts look the same as the whole, however far you zoom in. Montreal, Quebec-based solo developer Matthieu Fiorilli is fascinated by them."You have these surprisingly short math formulas that yield these complex and infinite shapes," he enthuses."You rarely see this level of complexity coming out of something so simple.
But all that's before you meet your first giant flying octopus. Chasing the Unseen's worlds are home to enormous creatures who, as Fiorilli hints,"evoke certain qualities and moods that connect with the story".
Unlike Fumito Ueda's colossi, Chasing the Unseen's megafauna don't seem ill-disposed toward the presumptuous biped scaling their flanks, but they aren't exactly restful companions, either. The octopus emits a pulse-jumping orchestral track, allowing you to track its position as it disappears behind aerial islands or looms behind you. The mangrove creature is quietly horrendous: I'm not sure it has a head.
"The rigger understands what the animator needs and then creates a setup for the creature to be animated. Kind of like a puppet. The animator takes that and animates it. For this game I'm using procedural techniques to create the animation. The mangrove is a good example of that, I'm not manually moving the limbs one by one. I created a system that moves the limbs on the ground and takes care of that.
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