Ascend Rush Game

Hi everyone!

For our second-year project at LISAA, I was in charge of leading the Tech Art team alongside my teammates Nathan BENZAQUEN, Evan CAMIER, and Olmo VITARO-GIARDI. Our mission was to create the entire environment: shaders/materials, props, ambiance/post-processing, and overall optimization.

We only had a month and a half to make the game, so we had to be as efficient as possible. We faced several constraints, such as designing a FedEx-style gameplay experience, maintaining a low-poly art style with high-quality rendering, and working with a first-person character.

In the end, we created a game featuring two distinct zones (fire and ice), set within a stylized landscape.

My main role was to design a pipeline primarily based on Houdini for Unreal Engine: I developed tools (for vegetation, rocks, icicles, etc.) to provide maximum flexibility for prop iteration. This allowed my teammates to have greater artistic control to match specific concept art. I also created all the vegetation props and set up the heightfields.

It was a massive team effort, and we established a precise and efficient pipeline to make the most of the short development time.

Credits for the other departments teams :

Concept Art :

TURK Adriel
PRELY Mario
HEMPEL Kilian
MARTY-EUGENE Augustin
WU Sophie
SAADATI Kamand
AIT Shaines

Game Design :

ZIMMERMANN Nicolas
WU Anthony
GAONACH Yann
DESILE Frederique

Huge thanks to my team for this amazing experience!
I hope you enjoyed the project!