Inside Xbox Collection X|S Optimized: Ravenlok

One of many greatest advantages of all that energy within the {hardware} is giving builders the power to make video games which can be Xbox Collection X|S Optimized. Because of this they’ve taken full benefit of the distinctive capabilities of Xbox Collection X|S, each for brand spanking new titles constructed natively utilizing the Xbox Collection X|S improvement setting in addition to beforehand launched titles which were rebuilt particularly for the console.

In our Inside Xbox Collection X|S Optimized sequence, these creators will share the behind-the-scenes accounts of how they’re optimizing their titles for Xbox Collection X|S and what which means for the way forward for gaming. At present, we’ll be chatting with Martin Gauvreau, Lead Programmer and Director at Cococucumber about optimizing Ravenlok for Xbox Collection X|S.

Q: What excites you most about creating and bringing Ravenlok to life on this era of {hardware}?

A: Some of the thrilling issues for us was to carry to life the magical world of Ravenlok at 4K decision and 60fps on the Xbox Collection X and at 1440p decision and 60fps on Xbox Collection S. This enables our signature voxel artwork model to look sharp, and gamers are handled to visuals with a lot greater ranges of element and immersion than on earlier gen {hardware}. At 60fps, Ravenlok runs very easily so the general expertise isn’t solely visually beautiful, but additionally responsive throughout real-time fight.

Q: Along with benefiting from the facility and efficiency of Xbox Collection X|S for faster load occasions and many others. what Xbox Collection X|S options had been you most excited to discover leveraging within the improvement of Ravenlok?

A: Since Ravenlok is about in a stylized fairy story world, our purpose was to totally immerse the participant within the beautiful environments, charming characters, and heartfelt story. We had been enthusiastic about having the ability to push our ranges past our earlier capabilities with the brand new energy and efficiency whereas staying above the goal body charge and cargo occasions. Because the construction of Ravenlok is designed to be a sequence of ranges that join to one another, we leveraged the SSD know-how within the Xbox Collection X|S to create seamless transitions between ranges. We all know that nobody likes loading occasions, so we’re glad to offer gamers a extra steady and immersive expertise.

Q: How will these enhancements affect a participant’s expertise with Ravenlok?

A: Gamers find it irresistible! For Ravenlok, we’re cautious to hit sure benchmarks for the body charge on the present gen, Xbox Collection X|S, in addition to earlier gen consoles like Xbox One X, Xbox One S and Xbox One. On the Xbox Collection X, gamers are plunged into the colourful and detailed environments in full 4K decision. On each Xbox Collection X and Xbox Collection S, the gameplay feels clean at 60fps and with nearly no load occasions between ranges, they will absolutely expertise the fantastical world and benefit from the sport at its highest visible high quality.

Q: What’s it prefer to have over half 1,000,000 individuals enjoying Ravenlok? 

A: It’s a dream come true for us to have so many individuals enjoying Ravenlok on Sport Move. With over 500,000 gamers in six weeks, that is an unimaginable milestone and we’re grateful to all Ravenlok gamers and followers on Xbox. Thanks for enjoying Ravenlok, we hope that you just take pleasure in your journey!

Q: Why did your crew select to give attention to greater decision and body charges as enhancement areas for Ravenlok?

A: Regardless that Ravenlok has a really nostalgic really feel with its fairytale setting and voxel artwork model, we wished to be sure that it’s also balanced with a contemporary gameplay expertise and quick, responsive fight. With 4K decision, gamers can see all the main points that we now have crafted into the setting and the excessive body charge makes it a pleasure to play. Epic boss fights are an enormous a part of the fight expertise in Ravenlok, and having the ability to defeat a towering boss at clean 60fps feels extraordinarily satisfying.

Q: How do you anticipate followers of Ravenlok will reply to enjoying it on Xbox Collection X|S with these enhancements? A: A number of what we do on the tech and optimization aspect is usually invisible — when it really works, and works properly, the participant mustn’t discover it in any respect. We hope that followers can be absolutely immersed on the planet of Ravenlok, following their curiosity to discover all of the corners of the world and occurring an unimaginable journey. This has all the time been our purpose for Ravenlok and we hope that the enhancements like greater decision and body charges on the Xbox Collection X|S serves this properly.

Q: What’s it like creating on Xbox Collection X|S?           

A: The tech and options within the Xbox Collection X|S open up lots of potentialities throughout sport improvement, however additionally they demand that we rethink a few of our earlier approaches to make full use of the console’s capabilities. We’re all the time studying and making an attempt new concepts, so it’s extremely rewarding to see our imaginative and prescient for Ravenlok come to life in ways in which weren’t attainable earlier than.

Since Ravenlok is the ultimate title in our Voxel Trilogy [also including Echo Generation and Riverbond], we now have improved our pipeline to work with the Xbox Collection X|S. This has saved us appreciable time throughout manufacturing and QA, permitting us to give attention to making the sport higher as an alternative of preventing with technical limitations.

Q: What does Sensible Supply imply on your sport and the way you’re bringing Ravenlok to followers?

A: Since Ravenlok helps all generations of consoles from Xbox One to Xbox Collection X, we will actually leverage Sensible Supply to ship the perfect out there model of the sport to the participant. If a participant began Ravenlok on the Xbox One and later decides to change to enjoying on the Xbox Collection X, they will proceed enjoying with out having to purchase any further copies of the sport, whereas maintaining their save sport and achievements. We love that followers can have this expertise and never be restricted in getting palms on with the perfect model of Ravenlok.

Q: What does Xbox Collection X|S improvement allow in present or future tasks that you possibly can not have achieved with the earlier era of consoles?

A: As sport builders, we’re frequently pushing the boundaries of what we’re able to by way of efficiency and options, but additionally by way of our creativity. With the Xbox Collection X|S, we will create bigger, extra detailed and dynamic sport worlds, implement extra superior AI, and ship smoother gameplay with greater body charges to meet the imaginative and prescient that we now have for our sport. Wanting into the longer term, we’re excited for the trajectory and to proceed to innovate and produce much more immersive, inventive, and enjoyable video games to our followers!