Mochi The Longest Tuesday

Mochi - The Longest Tuesday is my seventh game project at The Game Assembly and is heavily inspired by Jak & Daxter. As Spite - Plague Purge missed the deadline and some rendering features like post processing was necessary for both projects, there was a fair bit of overlap between the projects in terms of the graphics engine.

I was responsible for

• Skybox
• Shadow mapping improvements/fixes
• Transparency fixes
• Video player
• Detail normals
• Level of Detail
• Exposing parameters by Technical Artist requests
• Post process pipeline
• Rendering optimizations
• Multiple directional light support
• Debug rendering

I am particularly fond of the post process pipeline due to its simplicity. I managed to duct-tape the pipeline state object serialization with a declarative plain-text document where each line represents a drawcall with corresponding input/output texture parameters. It is quite flexible, and I managed to extract all previously hard-coded post process effects like bloom and luminescence. It truly granted technical artists the ability to go absolutely nuts.