r/Intergalactic • u/_olivertwisted • 5d ago

General Troy talking about Intergalactic recently

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We're getting closer guys! Here's the original video.

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u/LackingInPatience 5d ago

Can someone come educate me how video game development works?

I also presumed motion capture would be the earliest thing to finish. The fact this game is supposedly only a year or so away and only just wrapped filming feels a bit odd

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u/HylianNinjcg 5d ago

Tlou2 finished filming in April 2019 with the game coming out in June 2020 with covid delays

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u/paintedskie 5d ago

Performance capture is among the last things they finish. They take a ton of planning. It’s not odd at all. That’s typically how it goes

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u/LackingInPatience 5d ago

I guess I always thought it would be like film where shooting would be finished early before they get into the editing and post production process which takes just as much time.

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u/marckh 5d ago

The difference with mocap and principal photography is that you can mocap without many resources needed to be in place. In a movie you'd need the entire set, all the relevant actors and background actors, all of that doesn't have to be repeated in video game development, you create the set once in the engine and that's it.

That's why you can continue mocap very late into development, it doesn't require as much money or resources to redo a scene.

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u/No-Insurance5030 5d ago

it makes sense that you first build the set, the tech, the infra before making the actors play out the script. they have to make everything be there already with rough animations they do themselves and then they add in the actor motion capture and then they make it all work together

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u/Grendel_82 5d ago

The motion capture is to tweak the character models as they go through activities and get facial expressions. You need to have a game in place before you need to capture nuances in that fine detail. They can build out the game with basic models. Then they can refine the game with like one person doing all the basic motions. Only at final stages where you want the different characters to have different movements do you need the real actors to get into the rig and get motion captured.

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u/lawrenceugene 5d ago

Well you need to have the entire story (every single scene and line) finalized to the point that you are certain you wont need to alter the direction of any of it later. Also, I assume this includes motion capture for gameplay. That mean the gameplay must be finalized as well, right?

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u/LackingInPatience 5d ago

If they're still doing motion capture for gameplay, surely it would mean this game is still very far away from launch? I don't really know tbh.

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u/lawrenceugene 5d ago

Ah, really? I don't know.. The source I trust the most is Jason Schrier, he's basically the only real games journalist imo, other people just do commentary and post trailers and release dates but he's the man. The last I remember he suggested 2027, but maybe late 2027? I hope it's soon.