Black Moiety - Exploring Tay in the Aftermath of Riven

Yali · **Joined:** Tue May 09, 2006 6:09 pm **Posts:** 427

Update:

New screenies :mrgreen:

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Tikome village hut by Chris Spencer.

Tikome Village scene by blackfoxx.

Black Moiety has been progressing lately. We recently had our second team meeting on Skype and pumped out some great progress. Above is a more finalized version of the Tikome hut that Chris Spencer did in March. Below is a painting our resident concept and art guy blackfoxx chugged out last night using water colours and gouache.

In other news, KathAveara and I have been working on developing the Rivenese language. Below are Kath's transcripts from Riven:

Quote:

"Ok, here are the links to the files:
http://www.guildoflinguists.com/ahro/ri ... 2_r3.6.mov
http://www.guildoflinguists.com/ahro/ri ... 8_r3.0.mov
http://www.guildoflinguists.com/ahro/ri ... 8_r3.3.mov
http://www.guildoflinguists.com/ahro/ri ... _r3.5r.mov
http://www.guildoflinguists.com/ahro/ri ... 9_r3.8.mov
http://www.guildoflinguists.com/ahro/ri ... _p4_3d.mov
http://www.guildoflinguists.com/ahro/ri ... _p4_3e.mov
http://www.guildoflinguists.com/ahro/ri ... 2_p4_4.mov
http://www.guildoflinguists.com/ahro/ri ... 5_t1.0.mov

And here are my tentative transcriptions:
29_r3.5r
[something something something] si-ra-pe! o-ke-bu-re-bo-(w)a. ge-bu

32_p4_3d/3e/4
ya-fer-di-k(?) (cuts herself off)

155_t1.0
čo? ša-di-(y)a-he. ka-ga-wa-ri-vu. mu-wa-wi-vu-wi-vu (nervous stuttering?) [attempted D'ni]. mi-si-rap(o?), mi-si-rap(o?). mi-ta?-ta?-gu gu-(w)a-ne. mi-si-ra-po. mi-ti?-ta-gu gu-(w)a-ne. bo-k/gu-(w)a-ne. mi-si-rap(o?). bo-k/gu-bai-ne. bo-k/gu-(w)a-ne. bo-k/gu-(w)a-ne! bo-nai.

2_r3.6
a-nau-v/mai. (n)a-ru-na-sau-se.
ya-no-ke-ni-(?)a-bo-ko-m(?)o-bo-ko i-si-bo.
frai-da-bo (ma)
doi-bi-yo. do-bo

Last night during our meeting we also got the writing script down. Here is the "formal" version used on stonework and flags and in engravings and in some high profile texts:

...and here is the freehand style:

Notice the sentence in question? :wink:

Other news:

We are currently updating the project to UE4.12. Hopefully this will resolve our light-building and packaging errors. Also we plan to completely redo the grass in the wetlands. Its just too high. We'll make it better, don't worry. It'll be worth it.

Here is a shot of the western side of the landmass:

...and here is a top-down overview of the continent:

...finally here is our in-engine map with regions separation:

Just a final note, last night I saw it upon me to try to walk from one end of the map to the other. I started in the south-western edge of the Northern Wastes and walked in realtime to the mid Ashlands and I counted the minutes. It took me roughly 50 minutes to 1 hour to cross the whole northern edge of the landmass, give or take a few detours. So yeah, take THAT Skyrim!

Edit: Also of important note, today marks the founding of our company...

Acorn1 · **Joined:** Sat Jan 12, 2013 8:46 pm **Posts:** 983

congrats to you all - amazing work! :mrgreen:

Karkadann · **Posted:** Sun Jun 05, 2016 2:27 pm

I still got this strange looking pipe if you guys need it

Yali · **Joined:** Tue May 09, 2006 6:09 pm **Posts:** 427

That would be needed.

Interested in doing some modelling for us? We're in dire need of artists... and if you know Unreal, even better!

Join the forums and post a showcase of an object from Tay either based on existing concept art we've done (check out Adann's journal to see some rough sketches in the Journals section) or create something of your own!

Rules:

1. It has to believably Moiety - try to stick within the established art style that both Cyan and we have created. (Check our tumblr for inspiration at http://www.blackmoiety.tumblr.com )

...and that's about it! Feel free to submit just about anything that you think would work in the game's context. : :mrgreen:

Karkadann · **Posted:** Sun Jun 05, 2016 5:35 pm

Having a bit of trouble reading the imgur.com pics on your forum, however these are not very Riven like but I have got a few Cyan Replicas. Keep in mind this is my own work using 2D or 3D art for inspiration

[Reveal] Spoiler: Gigantic Cactus

[Reveal] Spoiler: axe head

[Reveal] Spoiler: Bookstand KI thingy

[Reveal] Spoiler: lampost from Dni

[Reveal] Spoiler: more book stands

[Reveal] Spoiler: Bagdad batteries w light

[Reveal] Spoiler: HMS sword

[Reveal] Spoiler: Selenitic ship

If I have some good concept art to work from I can usually come up with something pretty decent

Edit to add
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Yali · **Joined:** Tue May 09, 2006 6:09 pm **Posts:** 427

A little update...

We now officially have the beginnings of a soundtrack. Ogotu and Hollister have both contributed music. Here are their submissions:

Black Moiety Theme Demo

Atauui Temple Loop

Ashlands To Wild East

Blue Forest Blues

Indigo Kachina

Black Moiety Demo 2

We've also been developing the symbology of Tay:

Temple of Allatwan flag (New Improved version):

Outhouse pictograph book:

Yali · **Joined:** Tue May 09, 2006 6:09 pm **Posts:** 427

Teaser Concept Trailer

Edit: Video Update #1 - Greyboxing

Karkadann · **Posted:** Fri Jun 17, 2016 5:11 pm

Iv been busy with another graphics project, so I haven't had a chance to signed up however I did come across something else collecting dust on my hard-drive that might come in handy

[Reveal] Spoiler:

KathAveara · **Posted:** Wed Jun 22, 2016 5:53 pm

Ok, I've more or less finalised the Rivenese script, though I may tweak some of the letters a bit further once I'm able to write more extended pieces of text. Here are a few pictures of the handwritten script.

Yali · **Joined:** Tue May 09, 2006 6:09 pm **Posts:** 427

Here are two fantastic concept paintings done by ombarah for the Western Jungles:

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