Hull Flower is an open world survival role playing game set aboard the derelict generation ship Pergola. Overtaken by hydroponic plant life, its corridors have become steaming jungles full of hostile, mutated lifeforms. Waking after centuries of stasis, Pergola’s crew is met not by the din of human activity, but by thick humid air and the buzzing of strange insects.
Hull Flower has been in development since April of 2023. The technical framework for world simulation and creation of game assets is complete. Iterating on core gameplay and content creation is the current focus of development.
Technical Breakdown
- Developed for Windows and MacOS using Unity
- Chunk based world loading and unloading for seamless exploration
- Data driven design for agile development and full modding support
- Tick based world simulation with support for pausing and fast forwarding the world state
- Multithreaded behavior tree and pathfinding built off of A*
- Batch based rendering of world and vegetation geometry
- Dynamic field of view and fog of war via ray cast mesh generation with screen space shader effects
- Fully featured level editor for producing complex levels with mesh tile sets
- Heavily customized Unity and Blender asset pipeline
- Custom dependency injection solution for managing many discrete game systems
Brian Ostrander 