You might be wondering what all the mountain trips and nature pictures we’ve been taking have to do with game development. If you are making a game based on the natural world, like Raptors’ Realm, then nature trips are exactly what you need to gather the information and images you use for game development.

It’s been quite a while but dev updates are back and have we got great info for you about all our titles, but mostly what’s going on with Raptors’ Realm and our art pipeline.

The COVID-19 craziness really has pushed this update’s post much later than we already were getting it up. You’ll see that it’s much more past tense than usual and doesn’t even mention the virus at all, in fact, it was written back in early February before the virus went global. Though the current pandemic has made us busier than we thought it could we’re still moving forward and everything’s progressing apace.

Just what is photogrammetry, who uses it, and how are we using it in our games? We delve into those questions and discuss the art of using photogrammetry to infuse our games with interesting and helpful real-world data in this somewhat technical ArtDen post.