Creating a Tools Pipeline for Horizon: Zero Dawn

In this 2017 GDC talk, Guerrilla Games' Dan Sumaili and Sander van der Steen explain how Guerrilla Games defined and implemented a tools pipeline that would support an integrated game development environment.
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[@alig3841]

Every time they release another video about this game I'm more impressed by what they managed to accomplish.

[@chrismorris5241]

I have never played the game but I love how technical the talk is. Especially love the terrain/event editor!

[@NoC4k3]

Yeah, i was completly overwhelmed when I saw how fast they made the terrain changes for the encounter.

[@bongva1097]

ត៎ថថ៌ន្ ង រ៏ត

[@ArtofWEZ]

I had to make sure I didn't accidentally had playback at 1.5x

[@Druffmaul]

The vid was obviously sped up before they uploaded it.

[@unap16]

Omg! After NoClip’s documentary, this is such a brilliant surprise!

[@MforMovesets]

I want a sequel so much. Horizon was one of the best games I've ever played. And visually, it was the result of all the progress they've made in the Killzone franchise.

[@ryanh.739]

Took the words out of my mouth.👌🏾👌🏾

[@qgamer2266]

💯% agree

[@adventuresingamedevelopment]

There will be a sequal

[@michael_2xx408]

You will get a sequel now

[@Alexander_Grant]

How do you feel about the sequel?

[@FrancoSciaraffia]

I would absolutely love to one day have my own in-house game engine tailored to my specific studio needs.

[@ShatabdaRoy115]

which would be hella hard

[@171694]

Pretty impressive work

[@92Garrus]

Jira bugs on a map...that's damn cool.

[@monomagnus8738]

Dan talks in 1.5x speed :D highly efficient

[@shreyaspai3791]

Lol seriously, I had to check if I had accidentally changed the playback speed but realized that's how fast he speaks xD

[@TonkarzOfSolSystem]

Huh. The Banuk shaman Aloy prophecy from the trailer seems to be missing from the final game.

[@UnidayStudio]

Amazing talk!

[@BlueisNotaWarmColour]

My dream game is Obsidian developing a Fallout game using the Decima Engine for the strengths of PS5's SSD. Obviously, that will never happen for about fifty reasons.

[@klurikon3004]

Now its a pipedream

[@SolidSnaake]

Let's hope Sony decides to make a first person rpg with the new decima engine

[@magnificentblac]

Was KZ Shadowfall running on Decima engine?

[@pipeliner8969]

good video

[@XanderHDD]

neat

[@roqueart]

💙💙💙

[@nickplays2022]

So he says that their games are developed for PC and ported to PS4 for release?

[@wiipronhi]

No the engine is PC compatible to make development easier. It's pretty common in console games cause otherwise the iteration time will go from a min or two (compile -> start) to 30-40 min if you need to make a slight asset/code change (compile -> packing -> transfer to console (SLOW) -> start) and every member of the team would require a dev kit even if they only need to look at the game once a month. Way easier to just do the optimisation for console and then have faster PCs which can just handle unoptimized stuff better.

[@OREYG]

As with any game, they are first developed on PC, and then tested on devkit. Note, that all optimization code is still done against the devkit, and optimizing for a PC is a separate effort.

[@TheChronozoan]

Jesus this guy talks ridiculously fast.

[@newsystem3667]

Is it just me or this guy looks like Anderson Silva ?

[@kidsteveee]

i think you mean jacob anderson

[@newsystem3667]

@@kidsteveee No, I meant Anderson Silva

[@ThomasChen-ur2gt]

I don't understand shit