The Astronauts is bringing to us their latest highly awaited title - Witchfire. If you haven't heard of this developer, it is the crew behind the development of the incredible The Vanishing of Ethan Carter. To give you some information, The Astronauts is a small independent game developer from Warsaw, Poland.
Today, we have got some new gameplay screenshots of its latest title. And according to the creators, the game Witchfire is a first-person dark fantasy shooter with an alternative world setting where there are witches.
This studio is not a rooky anymore in term of mystery game development. Their previous works include Painkiller, Bulletstorm, and The Vanishing of Ethan Carter - which has received lots of praises for its detective mechanics and detailed environment.
Gameplay screenshots
Recently, the studio has posted some gameplay screenshots of the upcoming game which runs on Unreal Engine version 4.22. In fact, they are quite interesting and show off the high-detailed environments, rich features, and the fantastic lighting system of the game.
From the screenshots, you can see a new technique that the developer called photogrammetry. It's the technique that gives the game highly detailed environments.
And just like those facial capture techniques that handle highly sensitive sensors and cameras to capture our faces, photogrammetry uses those devices to capture the environments and use that to create the game's assets.
Witchfire didn't come to this year E3
From another tweet, we know that they didn't go to this year E3 but has been busy working. For the moment, they are working to transferring Witchfire to Unreal Engine version 4.22.
Release date?
In their developer's post, The Astronauts also mentioned that the release date in 2019 for Witchfire is not possible. Thus, they think that release date in 2020 would be more reasonable.
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