High On Life: London

by AlexanderBurgess, AshadAli, DavidSaggers, EthanMorris, JHeldmann, JackWard, KaseyBexleyIngold, KieraBrady, KleoVigh, MartinDeskov, and SamirAhmed on 17 May 2024 for Rookie Awards 2024

High On Life: London is a student made project made by 15 members over a 12 week period. We were tasked to translate this wacky and engaging art direction to our own environment with a British-Twist.

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High On Life: London

by JackWard

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Trailer

The Invasion of the G3 expands into London! The Garganticle has infested the O2 Arena, capturing the Humans for Drugs!

Team up with the Gatlian Gangster Iggzy to combat this slimy threat.

Gameplay Cinematic

High On Life: London is a fan-made environment created by 15 students over 12 weeks. We chose to base our project on North Greenwich in East London, drawn to the area's distinctive architecture. Our goal was to capture and re-create the art style of High on Life, showcasing our team's talents in a unique way. Heavily inspired by the in-game area Blim City, we aimed to reflect its perfect immersive experience for players.

Modular Buildings

Using Unreal Engine 5.2 Allowed us to have access to features such as Nanite and Lumen, which meant for further advanced lighting set ups and more detailed meshes without effecting performance. Despite this, we had to maintain an FPS above 30, achieved through optimization techniques such as using Material Instances and deleting hidden faces from meshes.

Characters and NPC's

The Characters interacting with the environment drove the immersive experience which Squach Games captured through High on Life. This was such a high priority during this project. Luckily we had two very keen organic artists up for the challenge!