This is it! The journey starts this Friday the 11th of November with the release of Badiya Alpha 1 on Steam Early Access.
We announced Badiya in April of this year with a reveal trailer that demonstrated our overall vision for the game. An infinite procedural open world set in the desert post World War 1 where your primary goal is to survive both the environment and the elements.
Badiya got a great reception from the community worldwide and the game was shown at the PC Gaming Show at E3 2016. Since then, the game appeared in several "top most anticipated games of 2016" videos on Youtube (6 so far with a total of 7 million views and counting).
Now Alpha 1 will be the first time the game gets in the hands of a large group of gamers to experience the core mechanics we laid out: Exploration, Looting, Crafting, Cooking, Trading, Hunting, Riding of Animals and driving vehicles and Inventory management. You can take a look at the full current and planned feature list on this link Here .
We coupled Badiya's gameplay features with a unique technical backbone supporting high end features you typically find in AAA games. Our rendering pipeline is based on Physically Based Rendering which takes into account the real life material properties of the all the different surfaces involved in any given object. A full day/night cycle is present along with a variety of weather conditions including Rain, Snow, Sand Storms and many others.
A full cinematic post processing chain provides features such as GI simulation (color bleeding), post processing, grain, vignetting, chromatic abberation, depth of field along with several choices for Anti aliasing like FXAA, SMAA, and Temporal Antialiasing that eliminates shimmering on distant objects resulting in a cleaner and stable overall image.
Badiya provides procedural destruction on props and objects that take into account the properties of the weapon you are shooting with and the angle of shooting. In addition, we provide long leaves touch bending on short palms so that leaves actually bend when you go through them instead of going inside the character.
Badiya Alpha 1 provides full support for 4K resolution with a user interface that scales nicely and looks sharp. Alpha 1 provides (in addition to keyboard and mouse) full support for Xbox One and PS4 controller which you can switch to at any point on the fly. Keybinding is next on our list!
We look forward to welcoming you on this journey and look forward to your feedback to shape it up to be the ultimate survival experience.