https://youtu.be/GWzVhfDFGIM
Alrighty, we’ve got our first official trailer for WolfQuest 3!
Making a trailer sounds so simple — just play the game and grab some cool video clips. But of course it’s never that easy. These things need to be quite cinematic, which means a variety of camera angles — not just the standard over-the-tail viewpoint. Such angles can be challenging when you’re chasing a herd of elk or evasive mule deer! The video also needs to be as close to visually perfect as we can manage — things which are tolerable in the actual game are more glaring in a video, and this is especially tricky when the game still has some rough edges that we’re in the process of smoothing out. Nevertheless, editing video is one of my favorite activities, so it’s a lot of fun amidst the frustration.
Note that everything shown here – except the first and last shots (howling alone and with mate) – is in-game footage, using the new wolf and camera controller. So we look forward to seeing what videos players make once we release the game….which is still “SOON.” No release date...and we probably won’t ever set one. It’s taken us a long time (longer than some of our players have been alive), but we’ve truly learned how bad we are at predicting these things.
But, one day soon, we’ll ask ourselves “Is it ready?” and we’ll answer “YES!”