Co-showrunner ARK: The Animated Series. Lead designer/programmer & cocreative director of ARK: Survival Evolved, cofounder StudioWildcard. Creator of OG DunDef1
Btw folks if you like ARK The Animated Series, please spread the word. It was an indie labor of love produced by myself, and
@arkjesse
, Doug, and Marc Diana, and the more people that know about it, the better -- I appreciate it!
So happy to finally unveil our new projects! On the ARK Animated Series, coshowrunner
@arkjesse
& I love the direction from
@LexOtis
, and the depth of emotion that brilliant writers
@KenFromSanta
&
@EvilMarguerite
have brought to the story. This one's gonna be something special🙂
Alrighty, here's an 'ARK: The Animated Series' preview of the key characters of Nerva, Rockwell, and two of my favorite classic ARK 'dinos'. Nearly every creature features in the show! The team at
@LexOtis
has been designing each one to have such a distinct animated personality😀
As we finally get Nintendo Switch ARK revitalized, all quiet with ARK The Animated Series? Nah! Just in buckledown-mode on S2 Episodes 8-14 (ep13's almost 50 minutes long!😝). Preview of things to come, a still from a sequence depicting Meiyin+Wuzhui... 4K
Claire got us a long-delayed holiday present: a DodoRex! Its awesome-looking but so detailed I think it kinda scares our 18-mo daughter Diana (or scares me at least😛). On another track, here's a peek at one of Helena's ARK Animated Series flashbacks, of happy times with Victoria
Working on it... working on it... gotta get all the servers up... in the meantime... did you know ARK Survival Ascended supports splitscreen for up to 4 players? (On all platforms.)
To clarify: the UE5 tease a couple weeks back is referring to in-the-works complete free upgrade/remaster of ARK Survival Evolved in UnrealEngine5. Not a cinematic. We havent officially announced the ARK UE5 upgrade yet 'cause there's other major things we wanna show then as well
Happy 2020 to all! I hope everyone has a wonderful New Years🥳 We have such exciting new things coming to the world of ARK this year, can't wait for you to see them! Before we look ahead, lets look back to where it all began.. to the very first concepts of a "mysterious Island"😀
Something fun Ive been coding for Gen2: aRkTS commander mode! Fond memories of S2s Savage compelled it. Also finishing support of PlayAsDino function for directly playing creatures w/o human character-we Titanomyrma deathmatched! & tease of
@LexOtis
' beautiful work on TV series😁
Huh, this Dinosaur documentary seems really, really interested in taking models from ARK Survival Evolved for its scenes... first our Titanosaur, now our Stegosaurus... I wonder what Episodes 2-4 will have 🤨
FYI, we are working on upgrading ARK Survival Ascended to Unreal Engine 5.4. This will result in major improvements to performance, memory, and graphics features, among other things, for all the game's platforms! ETA for the release: This Summer❤️
FYI ARK Nintendo Switch WILL be getting Ascension for ScorchedEarth. We'll also be adding that cinematic & all of the new story/cinematic/voice content, to all the other platforms of ARK later this year! (however Young Explorers Mode will be Switch exclusive)
#ARKSurvivalEvolved
FYI there will be a huge 3 minute gameplay trailer going into detail of many of the features of ATLAS before release this week. The VGA's trailer was required to only be 60 seconds so we didn't really get to show the game's scope and mechanics in it. Gonna be fun :-)
Quick note: essentially _every_ 'The Island' creature features within the first 14 episodes of ARK The Animated Series. The talented artists at Lex and Otis have had a fun (albeit challenging!) time designing all of their unique toon looks for the show😎
Ok ASA servers should be far, farrrrrr more stable now with the 25.49 deployment -- Leak plugged! But the work continues: one thing down, and onto the next thing... Gonna prep some more perf improvements
Been a helluva ride over the 6 years creating ARK: Survival Evolved. But, the ending of one thing is the beginning of another. Thank you all who survived The Island with us, expanded to new worlds & far across the stars. This track sums the emotions up!
Figured listeners might enjoy hearing (one of) Meiyin's theme from ARK The Animated Series -
@garethcoker
outdid himself with the show's 7 hours of all-live music, building off the emotional depth of the fantastic cast performances while still being ARK-y:
So, lookin' like Ragnarok 99%-complete update tomorrow for PS4 :) Xbox next week (longer Cert process). Stunning work on this massive map by
@RagnarokDevs
!
New Ragnarok is finally in console QA test, at last! (this actually has even more stuff in it than the current PC Ragnarok hehehe). Hope to have it released soon :)