Imagine you're the last one alive in the Arctic after a nuke | POLYARIS DEV DIARY #1

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Hello there!
Polyaris is a single-player, first-person survival skiing game set in a post-nuclear, procedurally generated Arctic world. Survive the cold, ski through icy wastelands, find essential resources, fight enemies, and uncover the mystery of why you are the last one alive.
You play as an engineer-polar explorer who finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time: somewhere in the far north on the border of Norway and Russia. A nuclear war occurs, but since you are in the Arctic zone, you are not directly affected, though you lose contact with the world. Now it's just you, your skis, the melting glaciers, and a mystery you must solve.
- Travel on skis through the snowy wastelands.
- Stay warm.
- Find vital resources.
- Fight wild nature and other enemies.
- Avoid storms.
- Pay attention to random events and explore the world.
- Navigate the icy wastelands.
- Set up camp and enjoy the Arctic views.
The world as you knew it is gone, replaced by an endless expanse of ice and snow and your journey begins now.
Used Music: The Vision' by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0
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[@wub9044]

Lack of story is the issue I've always had with survival games. I just couldn't get into them without any purpose.
Knowing you're adding a story to yours makes me happy.

[@magicpiegames]

we glad to see a positive feedback on this

[@DK-qp4jf]

gameplay over story

[@captainsewerrat]

Completely agree. You don't want to just survive in a survival game you wanna live. It needs to feel like you're part of a story, your story, and not just feel like you're a repetitive gameplay loop. You get that in real life with a 9 to 5 already.

[@speggeri90]

Agreed. For example Project zomboid is a great game, but the lack of any direction makes me loose interest.

[@johnsysays]

Agreed most indie games have trash story and become forgettable

[@NotGavinV]

i saw that the snow texture was repeating, maybe try to make the textures more procedural for more emersion

[@magicpiegames]

nice catch

[@SquirrelsLoveAcorns]

Great start! Feel like any infinite world needs build mechanics so that crafting and building is possible.

[@Monolithian138]

Oh my goodness this game is going to be awesome!! the arctic is such an unused / underutilized setting in games. and ive always wanted a game like this.i love the stalker inspiration as well. good luck!! i will be following this game closely from now on.

[@magicpiegames]

appreciate it :)

[@blackcat1528]

Удачи вам ребята! Надеюсь всё что вы планируете, будет реализовано и вы будете гордый результатом! Ну а мы - простые игроки, будем ждать.

[@magicpiegames]

спасибо!

[@goldmund22]

Looking great ! Stoked to try it out

[@magicpiegames]

join our Discord to be the first who'll touch it

[@imraan_alam]

Unreal loves to crash a lot

[@PxlDev]

This game sounds very interesting!
The game looks amazing already!, the lighting effects too look amazing. I really should think about trying Unreal engine out sometime, speaking as a Unity user
I know this probably isn't going to get implemented, (Its hard to implement such a thing) but this would be so fun and interesting to play with other people, multiplayer co-op. I myself am more attracted to games which I can enjoy with friends, and this seems like an experience which might benefit from a multiplayer aspect.
Happy to see the skiing as a good method of transport, respect from a finn

[@AAggggggg]

Haven't been excited about a survival game since the original The Forest! I think that a lot of the animations lack weight behind them, like the polar bear and rifle.

[@Sneddas-ly1qy]

I love the UI

[@KyryloBudanov157]

Maybe some Soldiers? that patrol the map

[@placedinbronze2825]

in my opinion it should be harder to get up on mountains so that the travel down with the ski is more rewarding,

[@TCrag]

Loks great, I recomend dsiging the game with absolutely zero HUD elements, use sound design and other visual means to communicate player status, even a wrist watch display is better then floating HUD elements on screen This will add greatly to the immersion and bring a cinematic quality to the game. For example you don't need text stating ' Temp low' when you have frost effect on your goggles, the frost effect tells the player all they need and doesn't break immersion. Same for what weapon is selected, it's clearly in your hand so no need to display it in a box on the HUD.
I recommend keeping the sounds purely diagetic, do not include any music or soundtrack . Keep sounds to just those generated from in world to further immerse the player.
Good luck with the project, it looks promising.

[@nicolasguiem7369]

I already like this game. It’s kinda has the subnotica vibe with isolated story

[@magicpiegames]

thank you :)

[@devthemetaverse2000]

Looks promising! Consider me on your wishlist :)
The only thing which bothers me and looks completely out of the setting - is 5:19 this scene looks way Taiga to me, definitely not Arctic, and breaks the experience.

[@zwippie92]

Good video. Informative and a good introduktion to both the game and the development team.
What other types of games did you work with in Unity?
As much as I like the idea of having the game release late this year, I just wanna say that you should take all the time you can and is willing to make the game the best you can with the resources you have.

[@magicpiegames]

You can check our prev game: store.steampowered.com/app/2402450/Zero_Grounds/

[@flamekillerr5851]

it would be better if it was peer to peer co-op

[@magicpiegames]

yeah, but it's rather a heavy lift for us..

[@xylvnking]

Looks awesome

[@magicpiegames]

you too :)

[@Sneddas-ly1qy]

u shuld add snowshoes

[@xpenguinxz]

i think Co-op would be cool i know it kinda makes the whole lone survivor story kinda go in the trash but what if there was a separate mode where instead of one scientist it was two so you could play with a friend kinda like the game The Forest in a way also adding penguins, seals, walrus, bunnies, fish and fishing would be cool but this is a lot so idk lol oh and a shotgun every game needs a shotgun

[@nocommentgamez2571]

I would try and change up some of the textures for buildings and such and make everything a little more cohesive as at the moment its too easy to tell it's just a bunch of unreal marketplace assets mashed together without trying to make it look like it all belongs together. Seems to be an issue with most survival games made in unreal by 1 or 2 devs and it cheapens the whole game. The skiing looks good. They characters stats look good. With a bit of work, could turn out great. Goodluck.

[@kaesar5078]

Omg, i want

[@magicpiegames]

we do