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Development Update Sep-Nov 2024

3 gen

We’ve reached the end of 2024, and we can sum it up as a year of deep, focused work – some of which we’ll be showcasing in our next big milestone: our vertical slice. The vertical slice will feature a small portion of our game that reflects the final version.

With many of the core components now in place, we’re excited for what 2025 holds as we head into full-fledged production!

Another milestone this quarter is that Friends of BCC Media Inc., doing business as NextGen Bible Media[nextgenbiblemedia.org]—the nonprofit established to support fundraising for the Gate Zero project—has officially been granted 501(c)(3) status in the US. We’re well on our way with fundraising, having raised ~11% of our budget this year alone.

Our team has grown to 30 members, including the NextGen Bible Media admin team. Happy New Year from all of us! We’re incredible grateful for your continued support and patience as we work to create one of the world’s first high-quality Bible video games.

Keep reading for an update from the past months!

New Team Members

We’ve expanded our team this past year to include talented developers with experience at studios like Rockstar Games and Ubisoft, who have worked on iconic games such as GTA, Red Dead Redemption, and Assassin’s Creed, ensuring that Gate Zero continues to push the boundaries of quality. New additions include a producer, level designer, texture artist, game designers, game writers, and an art team.

“I am really looking forward to helping bring this fun and unique experience to everyone. I think that this is something really special.” – Liam, Senior Producer

“I’ve always loved history and truth be told, I am looking forward to the struggle of trying to present this historical/biblical past in a way that is fun to experience and explore.” – Race, Lead Game Designer

“I’m more than excited to join this amazing team of talented people and to help create this innovative Bible-based project that’s bigger than myself. I look forward to crafting memorable experiences for players all around the world!” – Gabriel, Level Designer

“Upon joining the team I see a group of incredibly passionate people all with one goal in mind, bringing the word of God to the gaming industry. I can honestly say that I’ve never been more excited than now to partake in something as big and important as this and I'm looking forward to helping contribute to this incredible project!” – Justin, Texture Artist

Art

Capernaum 3D Models

With a lot of the concept art for Capernaum completed, our artists have moved on to creating 3D models of the different locations.

Capernaum Dock

Interior of the dock

Watchtower

We’ve also been working on 3D models of dock area props.

And here’s a look at the progress of the synagogue in Capernaum. Any guesses what stories will take place here?

Capernaum Synagogue

Capernaum Walkthrough

Check out an early look of the different components of Capernaum coming together in the game world!

Crowd Characters

This quarter, we’ve completed 15 high-resolution models of crowd types that can be made into countless different variations. We’re now working on technical implementation to give you an optimized experience of a lively, populated 1st century Capernaum.

Technical Art

In addition to constant performance testing and improvement, our technical artist has also been working on testing lighting.

Lighting Exploration in the Capernaum Synagogue

Materials & Textures

Lots of realistic textures are being added to the collection! Here is a small selection from the Capernaum area.

Capernaum Residential Area Textures

Capernaum Synagogue Textures

Ground Textures

Game Mechanics

Alongside refining the stealth and action elements of our game, we’ve been working on defining the moment-to-moment gameplay – systems like damage, health, stamina, upgrades, rewards and progression.

We’ve also been detailing the discovery elements, as well as the currency, skills, equipment and resources players can use to fully immerse themselves in the ancient world.

Story

Our game writers have wrapped up in-depth research of the Context, Message and Development for all Main Missions, filling our research database with rich, detailed profiles of characters, events and stories.

This lays the foundation for crafting immersive and impactful scripts that will bring the gospel stories to life in Gate Zero!

Reading Plan for the Dev Team

Last month, our team began an exciting journey together to read all the core biblical texts describing the events in Release 1 of Gate Zero.

Prepared with care by our game writers, the Gate Zero Daily Reading Plan contains stories packed with interesting narratives, monumental events, and growing tension as forces intent on resisting Jesus gain momentum.

To enrich the experience, each day’s reading includes a fascinating fact or insight that provides deeper context to the Bible passages, reflecting the script team’s depth of research.

We end off every week with a team game of Kahoot, and the winners get pride of place in our virtual office.

Fundraising

These past months, we have held two campaigns: the October Matching Gift Campaign and the Giving Tuesday Matching Campaign, both offering the opportunity for every dollar donated to be matched by an anonymous donor.

A project of this scale and quality demands a budget that reflects its excellence. With Christian projects traditionally suffering from low budgets and and thus quality, we are determined to turn the tide and create something the Christian community will be proud of, and in addition captures the attention of the wider gaming community.

Do you want to join us in making an impact in the lives of millions of youth worldwide with the gospel in the gaming space?

Click here to make a tax-deductible gift to NextGen Bible Media[nextgenbiblemedia.org]

Events

Backer Day at our office in Norway

Back in September, we hosted some special guests at our office in Moss, Norway – a reward promised to our high-tier backers.

The visitors got to meet the team, playtest our latest gameplay features (top secret!) and participate in an exclusive motion capture session where they saw themselves as NPCs within the game.

Click here for the writeup and video devlog from the day[biblex.io]

Reach Conf

We were proud to be part of the first-ever Reach Conf[www.reachconf.org] in Orlando, FL in September showcasing Gate Zero.

The conference was a reward for the content creators who had organized Alpha groups to share the gospel prior to the event. Creators could invite their community to the conference, and it was a uniting time with lots of games, food and encouragement.

We loved meeting the familiar faces of Christian streamers who love and support our game, as well as new people enthusiastic for what we’re creating. Already looking forward to next year!

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I am grateful for a game like this being made and available on Steam!

I hope my fellow Christians will show their true spirit by keeping criticism to a constructive nature. We need a game like this on Steam and we need to help them make it the best it can be. With community input and a dedicated dev crew, we could have a heaven on earth Bible game. I am excited to see the future of this game and hope it does very well.

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GeoPin

3 gen, ore 12:22

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Development Update Jun-Aug 2024

18 set 2024

Summer is slowly making its exit, and while things usually slow down during this time, the important work on our game has not stopped, with a good part of our team working hard through the warm months. Here is a look at our progress in the last bit!

Art

In the past months, we have expanded and strengthened our art team and made significant progress on this front. We have also established collaboration with a team of professionals who have worked on several Assassin’s Creed games, which we hope will take the quality and consistency of our art to the next level.

Capernaum Concept Art

With the exterior concept art done, we have now moved on to designing the interiors.

Concept Art: Rich Building Interior Living Room

Concept Art: Residential District Kitchen

Capernaum Residential Modular Set

As we work on building out Capernaum, we have also developed a modular system to improve efficiency and ensure optimized performance.

Capernaum Residential Modular Set

Materials & Textures

Our artists have also been hard at work with the details, creating materials and textures of building façades like roofs and walls, props such as carpets and pottery, and clothing textiles and fabrics. A lot goes into creating high-quality, realistic graphics which are at the same time optimized for an open world game.

Texture on a building façade

Carpet samples

Textiles

Game Mechanics

Recently, we’ve made major improvements to the stealth elements of Gate Zero, with the goal of making it fun by incorporating lighthearted, humorous moments. You may just find Max with lots of new tricks up his sleeve as you find creative ways to evade enemies and danger!

We have also been seriously prototyping some action elements for the game, working hard on making them balanced, responsive and fun. The goal is that these new elements will be easy to learn and rewarding to master. We’ve spent a good amount of time getting this right, and we can’t wait to show you more when we’re ready! Stay tuned!

Level Design

Level design is also an important part of game development, and one aspect of it is defining heights and spaces between buildings and other environment assets.

Rules for horizontal and vertical traversal ie. jumping and climbing distances defined for the environment art and level design will ensure a unified, clear and positive player experience.

Vertical Traversal Rules

Horizontal Traversal Rules

Story

Our scriptwriters have been doing extensive research into the gospel stories that will be featured in Release 1, determining the context and main messages we aim to bring out through the stories in each mission.

They have also been working on character development of the various people that Max (the player character) will be meeting in the game. It’s shaping up to be incredibly interesting!

Overview of the gospel stories we plan to feature in Release 1

Fundraising

In case you missed our last blog post or email messages, we are still actively fundraising for Gate Zero.

Our goal as one of the world’s first Bible video games is to create a product of excellence. The more resources added to the project, the greater impact we can make on millions worldwide with the life-changing message of the gospel.

Creating a video game of this scale and quality with care, respect and attention to the source material takes a considerable amount of resources, and we are grateful for any support you can provide!

If you would like to give to our mission, please visit our donation page here[nextgenbiblemedia.com]

Events

Forward Conference in Georgia

At the end of June, we attended a large youth conference in Georgia where 13,000 young people were gathered. Our Gate Zero booth was a hit with the crowd, and it was so fun to see these young Gen Zers' interest in our game!

Gate Zero booth at Forward Conference 2024

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Development Update Mar-May 2024

6 giu 2024

Time has flown by and although it’s been a quiet few months with fewer updates, our team has been working a lot in the background especially on the game design and programming side, getting the mechanics polished and tightened up so we can create a fun, cohesive and excellent experience for all of you!

Here’s a summary of our work and achievements since March in one BIG update!

Game Mechanics

So far, our team has completed 10 prototyping sprints this year. A sprint is a short, focused period where different design elements are prototyped, tested out and validated before further work is done to incorporate them into the game.

Through this process, our development team has iterated on the dialogue system, discovery and meta loop, traversal, time, stealth and combat elements of our game.

Yes, you read it right – we’ve experimenting with non-lethal combat mechanics. What do you think about that?

Lots of new mechanics have been tested in the past months, and we’re looking forward to revealing more once we’re ready to! We’ve been conducting rounds of playtesting among members of our community, and we’re getting closer to the result!

Art

We’ve made a lot of progress on the art front in recent months. One big milestone we’ve reached is that we’ve now completed concept art of the Capernaum rich district, residential district and Simon Peter’s house, and we’re now moving on to designing landmarks.

Concept Art: Capernaum Residential District

Concept Art: Capernaum Rich District

Concept Art: Simon Peter's House

Concept Art: Simon Peter's HouseWe’ve also started implementing the Capernaum rich district buildings into the game world. Check out an early look below!

To prepare for further world-building, we’ve been developing a modular system for buildings, structures, materials and textures to have centralized control over the art, improve efficiency and optimize memory and performance.

Aside from buildings, we’ve also been working closely with our history consultants to develop a solid basis for 1st century characters and clothing as we begin to create concept art for the crowd.

Concept Art: Jewish Rich Male

Concept Art: Jewish Regular Female

Concept Art: Fisherman

Another thing we’ve been prototyping that we haven’t shown much of yet are World State Effects – alternative renderings to the normal world that indicate a different state the player is in. The world effects are connected to the time travel element of our game and bring yet another exciting dimension to gameplay.

Concept Art: Time World

Concept Art: Corrupted World

Research

In the past months, we have established a tight, solid collaboration and workflow with our history consultants. Their insight and research is invaluable to the game we are creating, and we are constantly in awe over the rich depth there is to the Bible’s stories both from a historical and archaeological standpoint.

Besides offering input to ensure historical accuracy, we’ve experienced that the amazing teamwork we’ve got going with these historians extends beyond getting the facts right. Knowledge of archaeology and history can also add fun elements to the game’s design and mechanics, for example with the addition of maps, artifacts, caves and environmental obstacles, as well as daily-life habits and tasks of the locals.

Research board of characters and clothing

Research board of various elements in 1st century Capernaum

Team Updates & Office Fun

As development progresses, we have also been actively hiring to recruit the necessary talent to complete the game. New additions to the team include a game designer, associate producer, technical artist, texture artist, two level designers, and most recently, a senior game designer.

As our remote team grows, we’ve found different ways to collaborate and communicate. We now work together in a virtual office using Gather Town.

Some fun on the office Slack chat

Events

Game Developers Conference 2024

In March, we brought a Gate Zero booth for the first time to the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco. We received overwhelmingly positive feedback and met many awesome people genuinely interested in what we are doing!

Read the full GDC report and see the pictures here[biblex.io]

Marketing

In March, we hit an exciting milestone: 500,000 followers across all social media platforms and 50M combined views! We are overwhelmed with the attention Gate Zero is getting, and humbled and motivated to keep working hard. Thank you SO much for all your continued support and encouragement!

And with that, we leave you with an awesome piece of fan art created by VoxVulpes from our Discord community.

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Account needed in order to play a demo?

No, thanks. lol

Ceceli Δ

3 gen, ore 9:01

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How to report bugs

If you've encountered a bug while playing our demo, you can create a bug report here . Please check for similar bug reports before posting. We encourage upvoting on an existing bug report and adding your own screenshots or details, instead of creating a separate post for a similar issue....

Gate Zero

24 dic 2024, ore 11:59

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Game Development Issues That Need Brought Up

We need more character customization for 1 thing then at the very beginning when you get into the time machine either take that out or use that entrance as a loading screen. Now that I got up the temple I would like to see more little shops setup in that plaza area there is kinda blank. Letting you all know I donated to this game I'm just trying to help out. That's just the very beginning....