TWO YEARS OF FEZ
(alternate title : TWO YEARS OF FAIL)
Partly inspired by I Get Your Fail, and so you can share with us the pain and pleasure of game development, here’s a collection of 26 chosen Fez development screenshots and fun glitches that occurred during the past two and a half years. In chronological order.
Hold your mouse over the thumbnails for a short description, and click to embiggen.
September 9th, 2009 at 15:31
Looking at the rotated shots, I can kind of see why you had to ditch the old gradienty art style. I still think it looked cool in 2d mode though.
September 9th, 2009 at 17:25
I don’t really understand why, care to elaborate?
September 9th, 2009 at 19:05
Not entirely sure what’s going on in them particle ones but it looks sexy!
September 9th, 2009 at 20:16
Tuhd can’t think of anything witty to say today. Looks good so far. Tuhd impressed with you ability to work through problems and glitches and stuff.
September 9th, 2009 at 20:34
Nice job Renaud, interesting as hell.
Mediatize that post!
September 9th, 2009 at 23:42
These images are so awesome
September 10th, 2009 at 11:17
>I don’t really understand why, care to elaborate?
The gradient shading is a way of faking 3d contours and soft shadows. But when you rotate the image in 3 dimensions, suddenly it just looks like weird tacky wallpaper, because you can see that the contours and shadows aren’t there. The new art style looks consistent between the 2d and 3d views.
September 11th, 2009 at 19:40
well, it’s not the dev blog kinda thing I’d been hoping for, but at least this way I get to see some more in depth stuff of fez
thanks for the vital signs
September 14th, 2009 at 10:47
Love the screen with the Sign Test!
September 14th, 2009 at 17:31
“21_full.jpg” actually looks pretty cool. Was that unintentional?
September 14th, 2009 at 17:34
Yeah, it was a combination of many glitches with the “screen burn-in” effect of the magenta glowy cave level.
But once we hit the bug we played around with it…
September 14th, 2009 at 20:08
I think that the bilinear filtering + bumpmapping combo in “Renderstate mishap” actually looks really awesome. The texture aliases that cause all of the edges to be shaded a different color fooled me to think that there was some subsurface scattering or global illumination going on there.
You should totally have a level or character that is shaded like that, just to make it look out of place :3
September 15th, 2009 at 08:30
[...] Entwicklung von FEZ hatte Geburtstag und wird 2 Jahre alt. Kann das Spiel nicht [...]
September 15th, 2009 at 20:27
this looks like so much fun. can’t wait to play.
September 16th, 2009 at 09:00
Loved the particle screenshots
September 17th, 2009 at 07:36
[...] Two years of Fez. [...]
September 17th, 2009 at 10:24
[...] You can see the rest here, most of them are prettier than the one above. [...]
October 4th, 2009 at 06:22
Cheers to two years of sweet updates for an interesting title!
Best of luck and keep up the good work.