The Tomorrow Children

The Tomorrow Children was an adventure video game developed by SIE Japan Studio and Q-Games, and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment.[2] It was announced during Gamescom 2014 at Sony's press conference in August 2014.[3]

The Tomorrow Children
Developer(s)Q-Games
SIE Japan Studio
Publisher(s)Sony Interactive Entertainment
Platform(s)PlayStation 4
ReleaseOctober 25, 2016[1]
Genre(s)Action

Development

Engadget has described the game as "a mix of Minecraft-esque collaborative building, social economics and a Soviet Union-themed post-apocalyptic dystopia."[4] The Tomorrow Children runs on a proprietary game engine developed by Q-Games.[5] The game's graphics engine utilizes new technology, aiming to achieve a Pixar-like pre-rendered CGI look with real-time 3D graphics.[2][6] It utilizes the PlayStation 4's Async Compute technology extensively.[5] It features new lighting techniques developed by Q-Games, such as cascaded voxel cone ray tracing, which simulates lighting in real-time and uses more realistic reflections rather than screen space reflections.[6] This allows real-time global illumination,[5] without any need for pre-calculated or pre-baked lighting.[2][7] It supports direct and indirect illumination in real-time,[5] and up to three bounces of light per pixel from all directions (compared to one bounce for Pixar films).[6] It also features deformable landscapes, with layered depth cubes, representing the world as volumes, which are then converted to polygons as needed.[6]

A public beta test occurred from June 3–6, 2016.[8]

The game was released as an early access title on September 6, 2016 as The Tomorrow Children: Founder's Pack.

Discontinuation

On July 6, 2017, it was announced the game would cease operations on November 1, 2017.[9]

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gollark: It's the rate at which charge is flowing, although due to conventional things™ it's in the opposite direction to actual electron movement.
gollark: Well, for these components, each end of the component.
gollark: Two points in a circuit, or just in general really.

References
  1. http://blog.us.playstation.com/2016/10/25/play-the-tomorrow-children-for-free-starting-today/
  2. Dutton, Fred (September 16, 2015). "The Tomorrow Children – Delving deeper into Dylan Cuthbert's weird, wonderful PS4 exclusive". PlayStation Blog. Retrieved December 7, 2015.
  3. Cuthbert, Dylan. "PS4 Exclusive The Tomorrow Children Announced at Gamescom 2014". PlayStation Blog. Retrieved August 12, 2014.
  4. Trew, James. "PlayStation's push for indie games is epitomized by 'The Tomorrow Children'". Engadet. Retrieved August 26, 2014.
  5. "The Technology Of The Tomorrow Children" (PDF). Game Developers Conference. Retrieved December 7, 2015.
  6. Cuthbert, Dylan (October 24, 2015). "Creating the beautiful, ground-breaking visuals of The Tomorrow Children on PS4". PlayStation Blog. Retrieved December 7, 2015.
  7. Walton, Mark (August 13, 2014). "PixelJunk Developer Reveals Details of Genre-Bending PS4 Exclusive The Tomorrow Children". GameSpot. Retrieved December 7, 2015.
  8. "The Tomorrow Children Open Beta Weekend Starts This Friday". June 1, 2016.
  9. Japan, Sony Interactive Entertainment. "『The Tomorrow Children（トゥモロー チルドレン) 』サービス終了のお知らせ/End of Service Announcement for The Tomorrow Children | The Tomorrow Children（トゥモロー チルドレン） プレイヤーズインフォメーション | プレイステーション". プレイステーション (in Japanese). Retrieved 2017-07-07.
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