Birdspotting, a forthcoming game about exploring the countryside in search of avian delights

Rob Beschizza 7:32 am Thu Sep 5, 2019

Birdspotting looks like the ne plus ultra of walkabout games, putting the player in a remote yet pleasant section of country and handing them a pair of binoculars. It's by Joram van Loenen and Khalil Arafan and they've been working on it since January 2018.

I especially like the implication in the trailer that it should be played at low resolution.

Finally made some progress on the ocean shader for #birdspotting. Waves are masked with layers of noise then distorted using more noise. Foam is also composite of multiple layers multiplied with depthblend all combined with some nice planar reflection. #unity3d #indiedev #gamedev pic.twitter.com/eNNel1mg9M

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