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EMPIRE
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A mass multiplayer first-person RPG with a shared narrative for all players.
The game’s action takes place within a system of three world-rings orbiting a black hole.
Balancing the three foundational essences is key to the gameplay and game mechanics.
Aurum The basis of life, soul, motion.
Siema Instability, fury, strength.
Amelia Defense, faith, hope.
Every skill is honed through practice, and new knowledge comes from everywhere. One must learn how to utilize essences.
Essences — the foundation of everything. They are used in quests, item creation, combat, and construction. The balance of the three essences is a key element of the game.
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Design Process
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Characters originated as verbal concepts, then took form and appearance through generative neural networks.
ChatGPT was used to generate concepts; Nano Banana and GPT Image handled the image creation, 3D models were built in Hunyuan 3D and Blender, and then finished manually in Substance Painter.
Rigging took place in AccuRIG and Mixamo, while the necessary animations were created in Cascadeur and edited in Blender.
Environment models were assembled from ready-made assets and were generated using the same pipeline.
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Trailer
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