Viking City Builder brings Ray-Traced visuals to the RTS genre

Hi! Here’s Roslagen – the creator of Viking City Builder. I’m really happy for such great response to the initial reveal of my game. You probably can imagine that developing such an ambitious real-time strategy requires from me a lot of time and emotional investment. I’m not complaining when watching how positively the media reacted to my game by publishing a lot of articles, but primary all the players who showed big interest in the title. Thanks to that I know, my hard work was not in vain!

But I’ve got still a lot to do before the game is ready to launch. I’m sending you a batch of new screenshots from the game – in all its Ray Tracing glory. I want you to see with your own eyes how this rendering technique works in my project. I did get some impressive results!

I’m super proud of what I’ve managed to achieve with Ray Tracing. I’ve chosen Unreal Engine 4 as a base for the Viking City Builder having its graphical capabilities and this technology in particular in mind.

YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/fE9hEalPXhw

Ray Tracing generates a much more accurate and realistic effect than traditional methods of lighting a scene in games production. It even takes the physical aspects of the world into consideration and can also simulate variety of optical effects like reflections and really helps to bring the virtual world to life and makes it more believable I think. The use of Ray Tracing unfortunately has a negative impact on performance but I have good news. The game will offer support for DLSS2. Thanks to this technique we get a huge performance jump of up to 40% with additional image quality improvement!

STEAM PAGE: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1401370/Viking_City_Builder/