The new title from Jade Raymond, Fairgame$, is being showcased with a focus on cooperative heists. The chosen graphics engine is Unreal Engine 5, and it bets on a stylized, high-fidelity urban aesthetic. The game seeks to differentiate itself in a highly competitive genre, leveraging Epic Games' technology to build its scenarios.
Lumen and Nanite as the technical foundation of the heist 🎮
The team uses Lumen to achieve dynamic real-time lighting, essential for light changes indoors and outdoors during missions. Nanite allows handling complex geometry in environments, translating into building and furniture details without sacrificing performance. The workflow relies on Houdini for procedural generation of scenarios and Maya for character and vehicle modeling. Everything is assembled within the Unreal Engine 5 editor, aiming for visual consistency.
The perfect heist, or at least one that doesn't crash 😅
With so much cutting-edge technology, one hopes Fairgame$ not only looks good but also works. Because having Nanite in every pipe is useless if your character gets stuck in a trash can. We'll see if the team manages to keep the engine from taking a break just when you're about to grab the loot. Hopefully, bugs will be less frequent than security alerts.