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Overview: Departed is a narrative-driven game made in Unity in 3 months. It's my attempt to approach lighting and post-processing. It's my biggest project and I am constantly updating it.

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Role: Only developer.

Duration: 3 months.

Engine: Unity.

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Acquired skills: I learnt how to use post-processing efficiently and how to integrate emergent narrative using the Kuleshov Effect: I gave the player pieces of information about the story and let them fill the gaps. I learnt how to edit sound and apply different effects to it using Audacity.

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Improved skills: I improved my knowledge of Unity, but I also learnt how it feels to cooperate with a PR person and how to manage and meet the deadlines assigned by the said person. Our game reached thousands and thousands of views thanks to her: https://www.instagram.com/snappish_stew/.

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Areas for improvement: Departed is in Beta 1.2. One of the biggest areas of improvement is the real-time change in the post-processing profile, which I have managed to achieve but I still have  to perfect it before implementing it in the full game. Also, the lighting needs to be perfected as well. A shader that applies snow is in the project, but it still needs integrating: it would change from autumn to winter in real time. Finally, there are some performance issues that are very close to be fixed thanks to Occlusion Areas and Occlusion Culling.

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What I'm proud of: Departed is my biggest project and surely the one that I love the most. The support of the community around this game is small but it gives me the will to improve it. I am proud I was able to realise such a project and that it is still alive after months after its first release.